Bodleian iSkills workshops aim to develop your skills in information discovery and scholarly communications, covering a variety of resources across a wide range of disciplines. They are primarily aimed at University of Oxford students and staff. Some workshops take place face-to-face, whilst others are run online.
The workshops are FREE but online booking is essential. A list of the sessions taking place this term can be found on the iSkills Workshops webpage.
Week 9: Wednesday 19th March 2025 13:00-14:00
iSkills for Medicine: Introduction to RefWorks
In this online workshop you will be shown the functionality of RefWorks. RefWorks is a subscription software programme used to manage references and create bibliographies that University of Oxford members can use for free during their time at the university and as alumni. The workshop will cover:
- Understanding the main features and benefits of RefWorks
- Setting up a RefWorks account
- Organising your references in RefWorks
- Inserting citations into documents
- Creating a bibliography/reference list
Format: Online presentation and demonstration with time for questions.
Location: Microsoft Teams
Week 10: Monday 24th March 2025 13:00-14:00
iSkills: Using Scopus for your research
A key database for those researching the social sciences, medical sciences and physical and life sciences, Scopus encompasses more than 94 million records from 5000 publishers. This interactive session will cover basic and advanced searching, highlighting features unique to Scopus and recent updates to the database. Attendees will be encouraged to practice the tips explained during the session. This will be useful for those new to databases and a good refresher for experienced users. By the end of the session you will be able to:
- construct simple and complex searches
- navigate filters
- understand effective search query techniques
- save and export results
- extract further information from your results
Format: Online presentations with live demonstrations and hand-on activities.
Location: Microsoft Teams
Week 10: Thursday 27th March 2025 10:00-11:30
Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
The second in a duo of courses (attendees should attend the Fundamentals course prior to Logistics) that will cover the logistics of researching, publishing, and locating open scholarship resources and tools at the University of Oxford. Subjects include:
- What is the Oxford University Research Archive
- Depositing work into ORA via Symplectic Elements
- Depositing data into ORA-data
- Applying for one of Oxford’s APC block grants
- Registering or connecting your ORCID
- How to be included in the rights retention pilot
- Locating and checking funder policies
Ideally the ‘Fundamentals of Open Access’ course will have been attended. If you’re not in a position to attend this course you can find similar information in our e-learning package to work through prior to attending Logistics.
Format: Online presentation with time to get answers to your questions.
Location: Microsoft Teams