• Learning Services – Scopus trial

    Scopus trial by Liam Bullingham Throughout July we have a trial to Scopus, the World’s largest curated abstract and citation database. Scopus is excellent for literature reviews or seeing what has been published in your area as it can locate high quality journal articles, books chapters and more for any subject.  It has advanced tools […]

  • Researcher Development Programme (RDP): RefWorks

    RefWorks Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00   Get started with reference management and look at how to save references and use Write-N-Cite for citations and bibliographies. Please visit My View to book a place or contact Helen Bell

  • Researcher Development Programme (RDP): Google Scholar

      Google Scholar Wednesday 23 January 2019, 13:00-14:00 Learn some tips for effective search strategies and how to follow the citation trail of items and people. The session will also cover saving items to RefWorks, setting up alerts and creating and maintaining your profile Please visit My View to book a place or contact Annette Ramsden

  • Researcher Development Programme (RDP): RefWorks

    RefWorks Wednesday 12 December 2018, 12:00-13:00   Get started with reference management and look at how to save references and use Write-N-Cite for citations and bibliographies. Please visit My View to book a place or contact Annette Ramsden

  • Researcher Development Programme (RDP): Citation Metrics: Measure Your Influence

      Citation Metrics: Measure Your Influence Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:00-16:00     Have you wondered how influential your publications are? Do colleagues read them? Do they cite them? Who has cited them? When? Where? – and most importantly, How often? This session will provide a critical outline of author citation metrics. Please visit My View to […]

  • Abstracting & Indexing Databases

    Researcher development session: Abstracting & Indexing Databases Friday 10th August 2018, 13:00 – 14:00   This session covers how to optimise your research process using Web of Science, how to effectively put together a search strategy, citation analysis, looking at hot/highly recommended papers and author H-indexes. Please visit My View to book a place or contact […]

  • RefWorks – additional tips and tricks

    Researcher development session: RefWorks – additional tips and tricks Monday 6th August 2018,  13:00 This session will consider how to get the most out of RefWorks and will look at Write-N-Cite citation editing, using the notes field, exporting from Google Scholar and global editing of references. Please visit My View to book a place or contact […]

  • Introduction to RefWorks

    Researcher development session: Introduction to RefWorks Friday 3rd August 2018, 13:00 – 14:00 Get started with reference management and look at how to save references and use Write-N-Cite for citations and bibliographies. Please visit My View to book a place or contact Annette Ramsden

  • Google Scholar

    Researcher development session: Google Scholar Thursday 19th July 2018, 12:00 – 13:00 Learn some tips for effective search strategies and how to follow the citation trail of items and people. The session will also cover saving items to RefWorks, setting up alerts and creating and maintaining your profile Please visit My View to book a place […]

  • Journal Metrics

    Researcher development session: Journal Metrics Monday 16th July 2018, 12:00 – 13:00   Looking at ‘evaluating’ the journal you locate during your research using the metric tools available to you: Impact Factor (IF); Journal Citation Reports (JCR); Google Scholar metrics; Elsevier’s CiteScore and Publish or Perish. Please visit My View to book a place or contact […]