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 6th Week:

Overton walkthrough for Oxford University (Tues 30^th May, 11:00-12:00)
Overton is the world’s largest database of policy documents, indexing over 7 million policy documents from around the world and making them full-text searchable. During this workshop, participants will become familiar with Overton’s data and the three main search modes available in the platform. We will cover how to use Overton to see where research is cited in policy, where people are mentioned in policy and how to use Overton as a grey literature search tool.
Who is this session for? Students, researchers and anyone else interested in accessing the Overton database.
Format: Online using Microsoft Teams.

Referencing: EndNote (Introduction to) (Weds 31^st May, 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. The workshop will cover: what EndNote can do for you; adding references to EndNote from a range of sources; managing your references in an EndNote library; adding in-text citations and/or footnotes to your essays and papers; and creating bibliographies.
Who is this session for? Oxford students, researchers and other staff.
Format: Online using Microsoft Teams.

Referencing: Zotero (Weds 31^st May, 14:00-15:00)
Zotero is a reference management tool that helps you build libraries of references and add citations and bibliographies to word processed documents using your chosen citation style. This online introduction covers the main features of Zotero. The Learning outcomes for this session are to: add references to Zotero; edit and organise your references in Zotero; add in-text citations and/or footnotes to your papers; and create bibliographies.
Who is this session for? Oxford students, researchers and other staff.
Format: Online using Microsoft Teams.

Referencing: RefWorks (Thurs 1^st June, 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. Topics covered in the online session include: understanding RefWorks and what it can do for you; adding references to RefWorks from a range of sources; managing your references; adding in-text citations and/or footnotes to your papers; creating bibliographies; and where to get help with RefWorks.
Who is this session for? Oxford students, researchers and other staff.
Format: Online using Microsoft Teams.