We’ve got two interesting library training opportunities for DPhil students this week. Booking can be found here: http://researchtraining.socsci.ox.ac.uk/training/270-socscilibrariestraining. Details of the sessions below:
Tue 3rd Nov – 14:00 – 16:00 – Moving from research question to literature review in the Social Sciences
SSL IT Room Ground Floor
This 2 hour workshop will be invaluable for researchers hoping to find suitable literature for their literature review. A well constructed set of search terms and an understanding of online search engines are prerequisites for undertaking a comprehensive literature review. This workshop will allow researchers to use their own research questions to build a search and apply it to a range of databases. Techniques for structuring a search will be explained, an overview of key online resources for the social sciences will be given , major search tools will be explored, and strategies for approaching large results sets and sourcing papers will be discussed. This practical workshop will involve paper exercises and online activities using attendees own research topic
Fri 6th Nov – 09:30 – 12:15 – Referencing: Mendeley
IT services, 13 Banbury Road
Mendeley is a reference management package that helps you build libraries of references and then add citations and bibliographies to word processed documents. This introduction covers the main features of Mendeley.