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.
Open Access: UKRI Policy briefing (Mon 15 Nov 12:00-13:00; still places left 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.
Referencing: RefWorks (Mon 15 Nov 14:00-15:30)
RefWorks is a web based reference management tool for Windows and Macs which helps you to collect and manage references and insert them into your Word document as in-text citations or footnotes and generate bibliographies. This online introduction to RefWorks is open to all University of Oxford students and staff.
Who is this session for? Oxford Students, researchers and other staff.
One-to-one sessions for finding and accessing historical pre-1800 and post-1800 to present day UK parliamentary and government material. Print and digital sources will be covered. We will also cover archival material if relevant. This will be of vital help to history, politics and social sciences students using this material.
Who is this session for? History, Politics and other Social Science students, in particular anyone just starting their Postgraduate studies or new to using these materials.
Finding stuff: Scholarly literature for your research (Thu 18 Nov 14:00-16:00)
An online introduction to searching for scholarly materials to support your research, covering a range of tools for finding books, journal articles, conference papers, theses and more from the University of Oxford and around the world.
Who is this session for? Postgraduate students, researchers and academics.
Will cover issues around creating original data in the Social Sciences and Humanities, and collecting from a third party source such as a data archive.
Who is this session for? All DPhil students and research staff in the Social Sciences and Humanities
