photo (c) John Cairns

Historians, do you want to know what fantastic resources are available in Oxford?  Do you need to improve or speed up your research method to find sources?  Have you struggled to find anything in online newspapers?  Is managing citations like herding cats? Do you want to explore the use of AI for information searching?  Do you need or want to publish your research as Open Access but don’t know how to?

We can help you with all of these. See the list of courses on offer this term:

FINDING SOURCES & RESOURCES

• Introduction to Online Resources for Historians: Show & Tell (Bodleian iSkills) – Tues 15 Oct 2024 (week 1) @ 10am-12pm – via Teams Book your place
• Data sources for research – discovery, access and use – Tues 22 Oct 2024 (week 2) 2-4pm – in person Book your place
• *New* Using AI for Research: Finding, Analysing, and Sharing Information Sources (Bodleian iSkills) Wed 23 Oct 2024 (week 2) @ 10am-12pm – via Teams Book your place
• Newspapers & other online news sources from the 17th-20th centuries (Bodleian iSkills) – Tues 12 Nov 2024 (week 5) @ 2-3.30pm Book your place
  
• *New* Drop-in: Exploring Bibliography of British & Irish History – Historical Abstracts Wed 13 Nov 2024 (week 5) @12.30-1.15pm. Join via Teams (Oxford members only)
• Discovering archives and modern manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries (Bodleian iSkills) – Thurs. 14 Nov 2024 (week 5) @ 10-11.30am – In person Book your place
• Presentation on the UN Archives Genva Platform (League of Nations Archive) (Bodleian iSkills) – Thurs 21 Nov 2024 (week 6) @ 12-1pm – Teams Book your place
  
• Confidential Print & Foreign Office files: Sources for C19th & 20th studies (Bodleian iSkills) – Tues 26 Nov 2024 (week 7) @ 12-1pm – Teams Book your place

photo (c) John Cairns

MANAGING YOUR CITATIONS using reference management software

As you collect your references from catalogues, databases and websites, reference management software can be really helpful to export them into a single place, structure them, export them in a chosen citation style and, via a plugin, insert the citations into your writing. It’s best to learn about these tools as early as possible. If you don’t know which software to use, check out our comparison tables.

• Zotero (Bodleian iSkills)
  • Fri 8 Nov 2024 (week 4) @ 2-5pm – in person Book your place
  • Thurs 21 Nov. 2024 (week 6) @ 2-3pm – Teams Book your place
• RefWorks (Bodleian iSkills) – Thurs 7 Nov 2024 (week 4) @ 2-4pm – Teams Book your place
• Endnote (Bodleian iSkills)
  • Thurs 14 Nov 2024 (week 6) 2-5pm – in person Book your place
  • Wed 27 Nov 2024 (week 7) @ 10am-12pm – via Teams Book your place

All about OPEN SCHOLARSHIP

• Fundamentals of Open Access (Bodleian iSkills) – Teams Book your place
  • Thurs 17 Oct 2024 (week 1) @ 10am-12pm – via Teams
  • Tues 19 Nov 2024 (week 6) @ 10am-11.30am – via Teams
  • Tue, 17 Dec 2024 @ 10-11.30am – via Teams
• Logistics of Open Scholarship (Bodleian iSkills) Thurs 21 Nov 2024 @ 10-11.30am – via Teams Book your place
•  Your thesis, copyright & ORA (Bodleian iSkills)  Tues 19 Nov 2024 (week 6) @ 3-4pm – via Teams Book your place
•  Open Monographs (Bodleian iSkills) Book your place
  • Tue, 15 Oct 2024 (week 1) @ 10-11am – via Teams
  • Thurs 5 Dec 2024 (week 8) @ 2-3pm – via Teams

Other useful training

Keeping up to date with research (Bodleian iSkills) Wed 20 Nov 2024 (week 6) @ 10.30-11.30am – via Teams Book your place

Working with sensitive research data (Bodleian iSkills) Tues 5 Nov 2024 (week 4) @2-4pm in person – Book your place

Also of interest?

• Check out the entire Bodleian iSkills programme with more specialist classes
• Learn about online palaeography tutorials, creating maps using GIS software, training offered by the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and The National Archives and more > Research training for Historians.