Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops on finding scholarly materials and reference management during week 5.
Bodleian iSkills: Finding Stuff – Scholarly Literature for your Research (Tues 17 Feb 14.00-17.00) (wk 5) – A practical 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
Presenters: Joanne Edwards, Craig Finlay and Helen Worrell
Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road > Book online
Bodleian iSkills: Tech Tools – Reference Management (Wed 18 Feb 14.15-17.00) (wk 5) – Keeping track of your references and formatting them correctly for your thesis or publication is a chore. Reference management software makes it easy and is worth investigating. This introductory session gives an overview of how it works and the pros and cons of RefWorks, EndNote, Zotero, ColWiz and Mendeley.
Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers, academics and undergraduates wishing to use reference management software.
Presenters: Oliver Bridle, Kelly Schultz, Sophie Staves, Steve Albury and Angela Carritt
Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road. > Book online
RefWorks for Sciences and Social Sciences (Fri 20 Feb 9.15-12.15) (wk 5) – RefWorks is an online tool which allows you to manage your citations/references, insert them into your work as footnotes or intext citations, automatically generate bibliographies and easily switch between citation styles. This introduction is open to all but the section on importing references will focus on Science/Social Science examples.
Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers, academics and undergraduates wishing to use reference management software.
Presenters: Nia Roberts and Gigi Horsfield
Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road > Book online
What’s coming up in the iSkills programme – To see what’s coming up see the iSkills timetable
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Questions? – Please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk