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Finding stuff on SOLO
Next week Bodleian Libraries will be running a WISER workshop on using SOLO to find books and other materials in Oxford libraries. We will cover: effective search techniques for tracking down books and...
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Tracking down conference papers – past and future
Next week Bodleian Libraries will be running WISER: Finding Stuff – Conferences. This session will not only initiate you in the secret are of tracking down past conference proceedings and papers,...
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Essential information for DPhils – copyright, sensitive information and ORA
Doing a DPhil? Oxford DPhil students are required to deposit a copy of their thesis electronically in the Oxford Research Archive (ORA). Its worth thinking about this now, even if you will not be...
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D.Phils – last chance to book “WISER: Your thesis, copyright and ORA”
There are three more places on “WISER: Your thesis, copyright and ORA” this term. This session introduces key information for students preparing D.Phil theses – in particular focussing on what you...
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Reference Management classes for Michaelmas Term
Bodleian Libraries will be running its three popular workshops on Reference Management this term, so if you need to manage references for insertion into your research papers, dissertations or essays,...
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Two workshops to help you measure impact…
Want to calculate your h-index or find the most highly cited journals? If so, come along to Bodleian Libraries bibliometrics workshops next week… Bibliometrics I: Who’s citing you? will introduce...
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Making the most of e-books and e-readers…
Are you making the most of academic e-books? Have you considered using an e-book reader? On Tuesday 13 November Bodleian Libraries will be running WISER sessions on making the most of e-books in...
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Using news in your research
News sources are primary resources for researching political and social issues. However, tracking down news stories is surprisingly tricky. Come along to WISER: Searching online news sources next...
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Data for your research
Social Science data services provide archives of data for use by researchers and students. To find out more, come along to Bodleian Libraries workshop, “WISER: Social Sciences Data Services” on...
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Images for your research and study – ARTstor and BridgemanEducation
Bodleian Libraries has subscriptions to ARTstor and BridgemanEducation, both of which are databases that bring together thousands of digital images for research and teaching in the humanities, history...
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Finding scholarly materials: books, articles, conference papers and theses
Bodleian Libraries will be kicking this term’s WISER programme off with our popular ‘Finding Stuff’ workshops in week 3: WISER: Finding stuff – Journal Articles (Monday 28 Jan 9.30-10.45) – an...
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Measuring impact: h-index, journal impact factors and altmetrics
Want to calculate your h-index or find the most highly cited journals? If so, come along to Bodleian Libraries bibliometrics workshops next week… Bibliometrics I: Who’s citing you? will introduce...
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RefWorks, Mendeley and reference management
This term Bodleian Libraries will be running our popular RefWorks classes, a new workshop on Mendeley for reference management and “Tech Tools – reference management” which compares and introduces...
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Taking the pain out of keeping up to date with new research
Keeping up with new publications and developments in your research field can be a nightmare. Thankfully tools such as RSS feeds and email alerts can make this task much easier. Bodleian Libraries...
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Are you ready for Open Access?
From 1 April all research papers arising from research funded by RCUK funding councils, must be open access. This can be achieved either by providing free and unrestricted access to the final version...
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Mendeley for reference management – a refreshing change?
Mendeley is a relatively new reference management tool and one which is receiving a great deal of extremely positive feedback. It does all the things that traditional reference mangement packages do...
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Finding scholarly materials: articles, conferences, theses and more…
Bodleian Libraries will be kicking this term’s WISER programme off with our popular ‘Finding Stuff’ workshops in week 2: WISER: Finding stuff – Journal Articles (Monday 29 Apr 9.45-11.15) – an...
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Getting to grips with reference management: RefWorks, Mendeley, Zotero and...
Do you stuggle with your references or bibliographies? If so, then reference management software is there to help you. This term, Bodleian Libraries will be running workshops on two popular reference...
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Open Access Oxford – What’s happening?
Are you ready for Open Access? If you received a research grant from one of the RCUK research councils after 1st April this year, then it will include a requirement to make research papers arising...
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Workshops for historians…
This term Bodleian Libraires will be running a number of workshops for Historians… WISER: Online Resources for Historians (Tuesday 28 May 9.15-10.30) - This session will give a general introduction to...
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