To help you brush up on your bird spotting skills and learn how to encourage birds into your garden, we’ve created a book display. Find the display just around the corner from our issue desk.
Feel free to take a book and read it in the library but please return to the display after use.
Build your confidence with the Bodleian iSkills programme, a series of free workshops that empower students, researchers, and staff at the University of Oxford to develop essential skills in discovering, critically evaluating, managing, presenting and sharing information in an evolving digital and physical world.
Workshops taking place in 1st Week Hilary Term
Tuesday 20th January
REF open access policy briefing 🕘 14:00-15:00 | 💻 Online Make sure your research meets the new REF open access requirements. Get up to speed on what’s changed and where you can find help at Oxford.
Wednesday 21st January
Foundations of copyright for teaching 🕘 11:00-12:30| 💻 Online This workshop explains the different types of copyrighted works used or created in teaching, and outlines the rights and responsibilities of both teaching staff and students.
Logistics of open scholarship 🕘 14:30-16:00 | 💻 Online This session covers the logistics of researching, publishing, and locating open scholarship resources and tools at Oxford.
Formatting your text citations, footnotes and bibliography correctly for your essay or thesis can be a chore. Using reference management software makes it easier and saves you time.
There are a number of options to choose from:
EndNote
Mendeley
RefWorks
Zotero
To find out more about the different software available, how they work, and which will best suit your needs:
The Bodleian Libraries Reference Management Subject Guide, includes comprehensive information on different reference management software, including the pros and cons of using each one.
Attend one of the free upcoming Bodleian iSkills Reference Management training sessions. Find out more and book your place via the links below.
Explore Cite Them Right, an online platform designed to advise students on how to reference correctly across eight referencing styles. Based on a best-selling book in its 13th edition, by Richard Pears and Graham Shields, this programme is trusted by institutions globally, and accessed by thousands of students daily.
Cite Them Right gives examples and generates citations from a choice of 8 referencing systems for print and electronic formats. The citations can be copied into your work or emailed. The referencing systems are APA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, MHRA, MLA, OSCOLA, and Vancouver. Citations can be created for a very diverse range of sources, including books, journals, digital resources and websites, audio-visual material, unpublished material (theses, manuscripts, etc.), financial & scientific reports, genealogical sources (wills, censuses, etc.), legal material, government and other official publications, and other forms of communication sources (email, social media, graffiti, etc.).
Build your confidence with the Bodleian iSkills programme, a series of free workshops that empower students, researchers, and staff at the University of Oxford to develop essential skills in discovering, critically evaluating, managing, presenting and sharing information in an evolving digital and physical world.
🕘 11.00-12.30 | 💻 Online Understand how copyright affects your research and your rights and responsibilities in an age of open scholarship.
Fundamentals of open access 🕘 10.00-11.30 | 💻 Online Understand what open access really means – decode the jargon and explore how publishing open can benefit your research.
The first daffodils are now in the shops, and the days are just beginning to get longer. Despite the sprinkling of snow in Oxford, we are starting to look forward to the start of spring and Hilary term at the SSL. The change of the year marks the perfect time to try something new or just get outside more – why not come by the SSL to explore our new Pop-Up Book Display: Reading Resolutions.
Feeling adventurous? Pick up a book on Wild Swimming or Rock Climbing. Need some calm in the chaos of Hilary term? Check out our books on Yoga and Meditation. New year’s resolutions are notoriously hard to keep; so, we’ve made sure to include books on how to make lifestyle changes that last.
The books featured in the display are on loan to us from the Collections Storage Facility (CSF). They are for use in the library only and cannot be borrowed. Do feel free to remove them from the display to look at in the library and then return them there afterwards.
Each month, one of our Subject Librarians chooses an electronic resource which they feel will be of interest to you.
January’s Resource of the Month has been selected by Sarah Rhodes, Subject Consultant for International Development, Forced Migration and African and Commonwealth Studies.
This resource brings together material from within former British colonies and Commonwealth nations, alongside some from former French and Portuguese territories, to provide valuable primary source material created during a period of enormous global change. It includes insights into the variety of systems and modes of national and international political thought that became prominent in the twentieth century, such as socialism and communism, anti-imperialism, regional independence movements, trade unionism, student activism and Pan-Africanism.
Are you an existing student at the University of Oxford and unsure of how the Bodleian Libraries can help you? Did you miss your Freshers’ week induction, or would you like a refresher? Are you a new visiting student? If so, join this 30-minute webinar to learn how we can help you with your studies and research. By the end of the webinar, you will understand:
the network of Bodleian Libraries
how to find items on your reading list including how to use SOLO
how to use the Bodleian Libraries Wi-Fi, PCs and printing
The SSL ‘Book of the Month’ feature highlights a book in our collection that has been chosen by one of our Subject Consultants. This may be a recent addition to our stock or an existing item that we would like to share with you.
January’s Book of the Month was selected by Sarah Rhodes, Subject Consultant for International Development and Forced Migration.
Forced migration and humanitarian action: operational challenges and solutions for supporting people on the move
It was chosen because it highlights the challenges faced by agencies in helping forced migrants access support and assistance.
Book Overview
This book focuses on the diversity of operational modalities and types of assistance provided by both traditional and non-traditional humanitarian agencies to address the specific needs of displaced children, women, people with disabilities and older people, as well as trafficked migrant workers.
Reviews
‘[This book] brings together a wealth of experience and much-needed knowledge on how humanitarian action can be improved to more effectively meet the specific and differentiated need of displaced people who are all too often lumped together under the label of ‘vulnerable groups’.
Walter Kalin, Professor Emeritus at the University of Bern
How can I access it?
We have one lending copy of this book, which is located on our New Books Display Area (around the corner from our Issue Desk). Its shelfmark is HV640.FOR 2025. It is also available as an eBook which can be accessed from a Bodleian Library computer or use it remotely, by logging on to SOLO with your SSO.
What would your SSL Book of the Month be? Do you have a favourite book in our collection? If so, we would love to know what it is. Add a comment below or email us.
The last delivery from Bodleian Offsite Storage to the SSL before our Christmas closure period, will be the afternoon of Monday 22 December. The next delivery will be the afternoon of Friday 2 January.
To ensure that your requests arrive in this delivery, they should be placed before 10.30am on Monday 22 December.
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