Bodleian iSkills workshops aim to develop your skills in information discovery and scholarly communications, covering a variety of resources across a wide range of disciplines. They are primarily aimed at University of Oxford students and staff. Some workshops take place face-to-face, whilst others are 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.

Workshops taking place in 8th Week:

Finding stuff: scholarly literature for your research (Tues 14 June 14:00-16:00)

An online introduction to searching for scholarly materials to support your research. In this session we will cover: running effective literature searches; finding books and other scholarly items in University of Oxford libraries using SOLO; searching for journal articles using subject databases and scholarly search engines; searching for theses and dissertations from the University of Oxford and around the world; searching for conference papers.

Format: online.

Who is this session for? Postgraduate students, researchers and academics.

Preparing for your literature review in the Social Sciences (Tues 7 June 14:00-15:30)

Get ready to undertake your literature review using your own research questions to build a successful search and apply it to a range of library resources. You will learn how to: build a successful search strategy; use a range of bibliographic databases and search tools in the Social Sciences; work effectively with large result sets; source highly cited papers relevant to your research; set up alerts for newly-published papers on your topic.

Format: online.

Who is this session for? Postgraduate students and research staff in the Social Sciences.