During week 6 the Bodleian Libraries will be offering courses on the following:
Bodleian iSkills: Your thesis, copyright & ORA (Wednesday 18th November 14.00-15.00) Week 6
Oxford DPhil students are required to deposit a copy of their thesis in ORA (Oxford University Research Archive). This session will focus on copyright and other issues that DPhil students need to take into account when preparing their thesis for upload to ORA.
Presenters: David Watson, Jason Partridge and Sarah Barkla
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, Parks Road > Book a place
Bodleian iSkills: Newspapers & other online resources 17th – 20th centuries (Friday 20th November 9.30-11.30) Week 6
Newspapers are a valuable resource for researching, not only news but also many other aspects of society. In this session we will introduce key historical and contemporary sources of news and how to make best use of them.
Who is the session for? Postgraduates, researchers and anyone else who is interested.
Presenters: Isabel Holowaty, Angela Carritt
Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road > Book a place
Bodleian Centre for Digital Scholarship: ORA and ORA Data Digital Drop-ins (Mondays 11.30-13.30 in term time)
Do you want to know more about depositing your work or searching the Oxford University Research and Data Archives (ORA)? This term we will be holding regular drop-in surgeries in the Weston Library’s Centre for Digital Scholarship.
Who is this session for? Open to any member of the University
Venue: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library
No need to book —just come along!
Bodleian Centre for Digital Scholarship: Digital Coffee Afternoons (Mondays 14.00-15.00 week 2-8)
If you would like to meet other people interested in working with the Libraries’ digital or digitized collections, please come along to a digital coffee afternoon in the Visiting Scholars’ Centre at the Weston Library
Venue: Visiting Scholars’ Centre at the Weston Library
No need to book —just come along!
Bodleian Centre for Digital Scholarship: Digital Drop-ins (Mondays 9.30-11.30 in term time)
Are you thinking of developing a digital project using library collections? Do you have questions about getting it funded, what approach to take, or what might be possible? This term we will be holding regular drop-in surgeries in the Weston Library’s Centre for Digital Scholarship.
Who is this session for? Open to any member of the University
Venue: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library
No need to book —just come along!
In addition, there are still some places at this week’s workshops on research impact, data archives and statistics, and archives and modern papers:
Bodleian iSkills: Archives and modern papers for Social Sciences (Wednesday 11th November 14.00-15.30) Week 5
The Bodleian’s Weston Library has a wealth of resources covering almost all aspects of modern British society and culture. This session will introduce key finding aids and get you started with the research skills needed to make the most of these resources.
Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers and other Bodleian Libraries readers considering using special collections
Presenter: Michael Hughes
Venue: Horton Room, Weston Library >Book a place
Bodleian iSkills: Research impact – citation analysis tools (Wednesday 11th November 14.00-15.30) Week 5
During this introduction to citation tracking and bibliometrics we will use a range of ‘impact factor’ tools to find top journals and conferences, count citations and measure the impact of publications and researchers. We will cover Journal Citation Reports, SCImago Journal Rank, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Essential Science Indicators, ORCID and more and explain how to use each tool and its strengths and weaknesses.
Who is this session for? Current Oxford research postgraduates, researchers, academics, University and Library staff.
Presenters: Karine Barker, Juliet Ralph, Karen Langdon
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, Parks Road >Book a place
Bodleian iSkills: Social Science data archives & statistical databases (Friday 13rd November 10.00-12.00) Week 5
An overview of macro and micro data sources for social scientists including national data archives, subscription services, economic and business data. During the session, we will also offer some pointers for further searching.
Presenter: John Southall
Venue: Social Science Library IT Training Room >Book a place
See the full timetable of iSkills courses, and book your place at http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/workshopsbydate
Keeping up with Bodleian Libraries training opportunities: Why not follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bodleianskills or visit the Bodleian iSkills blog at http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/skills/
Questions? – Please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk