Some really useful iSkills workshops for research students and academic colleagues taking place 24 Feb – 27 Feb (6th week)

Working with sensitive research data (Tuesday 25 February 10:00-12:00)

This workshop outlines some of the key principles to bear in mind when working with sensitive or restricted research; whether collected yourself or obtained from a third-party source such as a data archive. Issues of confidentiality, informed consent, cybersecurity and data management will be covered. The role of support services at Oxford will also be outlined and in particular the role of the Bodleian Data Librarian who will lead the session.
Format: Classroom-based (Social Science Library)
Booking essential – To book a place click on the title above – you’ll need to scroll down the page to find the booking details

Searching for patents and standards (Tuesday 25 February 13:00-14:00)

Patents and standards are a valuable source of technical information relevant to the fields of engineering, materials sciences, and more. Together, they provide approved rules and guidelines whilst helping to protect inventions and innovative ideas. They can, however, be tricky to find. Join this session to find out more about what patents and standards are, why they might be useful for your research and how to find them in specific databases.
Format: Classroom-based (Radcliffe Science Library)
Booking essential – To book a place click on the title above – you’ll need to scroll down the page to find the booking details

Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright & ORA (Tuesday 25 February 15:00-16:00)

Oxford DPhil students are required to deposit a copy of their thesis in the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA). This online session will focus on what ORA is and how to deposit one’s thesis in ORA, and how to access help with this process. It will also cover the relevant rights and permissions required and other issues that DPhil students need to take into account when preparing their thesis for upload to ORA.
Who is this session for? All doctoral research students.
Format: Online using Microsoft Teams.
Booking essential – To book a place click on the title above – you’ll need to scroll down the page to find the booking details

Open Scholarship: Introduction to Persistent Identifiers (Wednesday 26 February 14:00-15:30)

This course will introduce you to the concept of Persistent Identifiers, the problems that they address, and how they can be used in the academic environment to simplify some tasks. It will examine several different types of identifier, some of which are currently widely used (DOI’s for publications/data and ORCID’s for researchers) and others which are emerging in importance.
Format: Online using Microsoft Teams.
Booking essential – To book a place click on the title above – you’ll need to scroll down the page to find the booking details

Copyright the card game (Thursday 27 February
09:00-12:00 )

This interactive, games-based session introduces you to the key concepts of copyright law and allows you to apply them in practice. No prior knowledge is required, and the session caters for all whatever their level of experience with copyright. At the end of the session participants will be able to: explore how copyright really works in practice; interpret the legislation and apply the relevant legal concepts to their own work; practice using the exceptions and licences in sector-specific examples; and discuss the role of risk management in making decisions about the ethical creation and use of copyright material.
Format: Classroom-based (Radcliffe Science Library)
Booking essential – To book a place click on the title above – you’ll need to scroll down the page to find the booking details

Bodleian Libraries iSkills programme is running a range of free workshops during January and February for history students. Some are online and others face-to-face classroom based sessions.   Please see further details below and be sure to book a place at any sessions you wish to attend – to do so, click on the title of the course below. This will take you to a web page where you will see full details of the course – scroll down to book your place.

Online sources for Historians (Thursday 18th January 14:00-16:00, online via Teams)

A general online introduction to the vast range of electronic resources which are available for all historical periods of British and Western European history.

Discovering archives at the Bodleian Libraries (Thursday 25th January 15:00-16:00, classroom based at Weston Library Lecture Threatre)

A classroom-based session to introduce you to the key catalogues and finding aids for post-1500 archives and manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries.

Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries (Tuesday 6th February 10:00-11:30 online via Teams)

This session will introduce key online sources of news with the focus on historical and contemporary newspapers from the 17th century across most countries of the world.

Archives and modern papers for Social Sciences and History (Thursday 8th February 14:30-16:00, classroom based at Weston Library Horton Room)

The Bodleian Libraries 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.

The Bodleian Libraries run a programme of free workshops (many of which are online) called ‘iSkills’.  Check the programme online and book your place.  The programme covers:

• Finding scholarly books, journals and other papers to support your learning and research
• Using reference management tools such as Endnote, RefWorks, Zotero and Mendeley for referencing and formatting footnotes and bibliographies
• Keeping up to date with new research
• Measuring research impact
• Understanding copyright and looking after your intellectual property
• Open Access publishing and complying with funder mandates for open access
  Managing your research data
• Bodleian Libraries refresher outlining how services provided by the Bodleian Libraries can help you with your studies.

Prefer a one to one?    Continuing Education Library can meet with you one-to-one in person or on Teams or Zoom to cover many of the topics above and particularly finding scholarly materials, referencing and using reference management software. Please feel free to contact us to book an appointment.