Bodleian iSkills is a series of workshops designed for postgraduates and researchers, covering information discovery and searching for scholarly materials, keeping up to date with research, using reference management tools, research data management and open access publishing. For Michaelmas term, most of the workshops will continue to run online.
The workshops are FREE but online booking is essential. A list of the sessions taking place this term can be found on the iSkills Workshops webpage.
iSkills: Introduction to web archives for research use (Mon 8 Nov 14.00-15.00)
The Internet has been available since the early 1990s and has been a repository for almost all human thought. It is, however, a highly ephemeral resource with websites in regular change and frequent deletion. A web archive attempts to capture, preserve, and give access to archived websites at regular intervals. This session will introduce web archives and their potential for academic research at all levels.By the end of the session you will have an introductory overview of the potential of web archives (and the UK Web Archive in particular) for academic research.
Who is this session for? Undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and University staff
Referencing: EndNote (Introduction to) (Tue 9 Nov 10:00-12:00)
EndNote 20 is a desktop-based reference management tool for Windows and Mac users, which helps you build libraries of references and insert them into your Word document as in-text citations or footnotes and automatically generate bibliographies. This introduction to EndNote is open to all University of Oxford students, researchers and staff and teaches you how to use the software so that you can effectively manage your references.
Who is this session for? Oxford students, researchers and other staff.
iSkills: Keeping up to date with research (Wed 10 Nov 10.00-11:30)
An online introduction to using alerts to keep up to date with new research and save you time. A combination of presenter-led instruction and the opportunity for participants to set up email alerts to receive notifications for publications in their field of research.
Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers, academics and anyone interested in the topic.
Open Access: UKRI Policy briefing (Thu 11 Nov 10:00-11:00)
UKRI funded and need to know how to comply from 1st April 2022? In this focused online briefing we will step you through the changes and new requirements, provide links to further UKRI information and guidance, let you know where to find help at Oxford and answer as many questions as we can.
Who is this session for? Current Oxford researchers and academics, research support staff and librarians.
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 an NHS trust or Biobank data. 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 Sciences and Medical Sciences
