The Bodleian iSkills programme is designed to help you make effective use of scholarly materials and resources. These sessions are primarily aimed at Oxford University students and staff (but check the ‘intended audience’ field in the course description before booking).

iSkills workshops will be available in Trinity Term through a combination of webinars and pre-recorded videos.

All workshops are free of charge but must be booked in advance.

Workshops taking place in 6th Week:

Bodleian iSkills: Finding stuff – scholarly literature for your research (Tue 1 Jun 10.00-12.00)
An online introduction to searching for scholarly materials to support your research, covering a range of tools for finding monographs, journal articles, conference papers, theses and more.Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers and academics.

Bodleian iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools (Thu 3 Jun 14.00-15.00)
During this introduction to citation tracking and bibliometrics we will examine a range of tools for finding journal metrics, article metrics and author metrics, in the context of moves towards responsible metrics in measuring the impact of publications and researchers. We will cover Journal Citation Reports, CiteScore Journal Metrics, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Essential Science Indicators, ORCID and more and explain how to use each tool and its strengths and weaknesses.
Who is this session for? Researchers, Academics, Research Support Staff and Research Postgraduates in Sciences and Social Sciences.

Bodleian iSkills: Working with sensitive research data in the Social Sciences and Humanities (Fri 4 Jun 11.00-12.30)
A workshop outlining some of the key principles to bear in mind when working with sensitive or restricted research; whether collected yourself or obtained from a third party source such as a data archive. Issues of confidentiality, informed consent, cybersecurity and data management will be covered. Examples of scenarios or concerns drawn from the research of participants are particularly welcome. The role of support services at Oxford will also be outlined and in particular the role of the Bodleian Data Librarian who will lead the session. Follow up consultations with the Data librarian or other subject consultants are also offered.
Who is this session for? All DPhil students and research staff in the Social Sciences.

Google for Academic research (Video)
A series of videos adapted from the iSkills workshop Google for Academic Research, looking at why you may wish to use Google to find literature relevant to your research. The videos explain how Google works, and include various techniques to quickly filter your results for high quality academic material.  Alternative search engines, Bing and DuckDuckGo are also introduced

Have a look at further workshops in our iSkills programme for Trinity Term, and also our available video recordings.