Next week’s WISER sessions include sessions on e-books and keeping up-to-date, as well as a repeat of the WISER Finding Stuff sessions.

Find digital images for History of Science
Wednesday 17 November, 10.00 – 12 noon, Radcliffe Science Library Training Room
We subscribe to two of the biggest image databases, ARTstor and Bridgeman Education. They contain a million high-quality images suitable for use in papers and presentations. Both comprehensively cover locations, subjects, periods and media, but their content can be vastly different. Navigation and tools (eg Print, Save, Send) also differ. Find out more about the science-related content, searching and using images, at a presentation open to all Oxford University students and staff. The second half is a chance to practice; if you are unable to stay for the full two hours, you are still very welcome to attend.
Find out more about this session at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/training/wiser/more.
Please book your place with Juliet Ralph juliet.ralph@bodleian.ox.ac.uk .

WISER: Technology Tools – Keeping Up To Date with Research
Wednesday 17 November 1.00 – 2.30pm
This session will help you to keep up to date with developments in your research field using a range of tools
including personal research / interest profiles, email alerting services, RSS feeds and more.
Presenters: Angela Carritt and Linda Atkinson.

Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZWD

WISER: E-Books
Wednesday 17 November 3.00 – 4.00pm
An overview of what is currently available and how to access them from the point of view of the student, the researcher and the academic considering using e-books to resource their courses.
Presenter: Hilla Wait.
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZC4

WISER: E-Book Readers
Wednesday 17 November 4.00 – 5.00pm
How useful are e-book readers in academic work? Can they be used for accessing library materials? What are the features to look out for when considering purchase? Can they be used with pdf’s? These and similar
questions will be considered with particular reference to the Amazon Kindle, Sony Touch and iPad e-readers.
Presenters: Isabel McMann and Laura Wilkinson.
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZE11

WISER: Finding Stuff – Books etc on SOLO
Friday 19 November 9.15 – 10.15am
A general introduction to finding books and journal titles in Oxford libraries using SOLO. For detailed information about searching for journal articles, theses and conference papers please see other titles in the WISER Finding Stuff series.
Presenters: Angela Carritt, Kerry Webb and Isabel McMann
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZWA

WISER: Finding Stuff – Journal Articles
Friday 19 November 10.15 – 11.15am
This session will focus on finding journal articles for your research using a wide range of databases as well as developing effective search strategies. There will be plenty of time for participants to try out their own searches using databases for their subject.
Presenters: Angela Carritt, Kerry Webb and Isabel McMann
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZWA

WISER: Finding Stuff – Theses and Dissertations
Friday 19 November 11.30 – 12.30pm
This session offers guidance on finding theses, both those submitted to and held in Oxford, and those from other institutions in the UK and abroad. It will demonstrate how to exploit some of the main sources of information : SOLO, Index to Theses (UK and Ireland); and Dissertations and Theses (International) EThOS and ORA.
Presenter: Jayne Plant
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZW4

Keeping up with WISER

We’re on Twitter – please follow us at http://twitter.com/oxwiser, or to receive WISER updates by RSS feed subscribe to http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ulib/usered-events-wiser/rss10.xml

Not a member of Oxford University? 
If you have a Bodleian Libraries readers card you are welcome to attend WISER sessions even if you are
not a member of the University. Please email usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk to book your place. Members of Oxford University should book using the links above.

Next week’s WISER sessions, plus “Introduction to the Electronic Enlightenment Project”

Introduction to the Electronic Enlightenment project 
Wednesday 10 November, 10.00-11.00am, Radcliffe Science Library Training Room
With 58,555 letters and documents and 7,113 correspondents as of October 2010, EE (www.e-enlightenment.com) is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century. Find out more at a presentation by Robert McNamee (Director, Electronic Enlightenment Project), open to all Oxford University students and staff.
To book a place please contact juliet.ralph@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

WISER: Technology Tools – Reference Management
Wednesday 10 November 2.00 – 3.30pm
Keeping track of your references and formatting them correctly for your thesis or publication is a chore. Reference management software makes it easy and is worth investigating. This introductory session gives an overview of how it works and the pros and cons of RefWorks, EndNote and other tools. 
Presenters: Gillian Pritchard and Ljilja Ristic
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZW6

WISER: Learning a Modern Language 
Wednesday 10 November 4.00 – 5.00pm
This session will help you find valuable resources for learning modern languages and make use of the language you are learning in your searches.  We will: find tools for non-latin writing systems, search non-English search engines, and use resources offered by Oxford and from referential sites
Presenter: Lucile Deslignères .   
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZD17

WISER: Getting Organised on the Web  
Friday 12 November 9.30 – 11.00am
This session will look at some tools that can help you organise yourself on the web, including social bookmarking services like delicious.com, bibliophile sites like LibraryThing and My WorldCat, RSS feeds and readers, and customised start pages.   
Presenters: Jane Rawson  and Penny Schenk. 
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZWT

WISER: Using the Internet to Find Quality Resources
Friday 12 November 11.15 – 12.45pm
Finding information on the Internet is fairly easy. Finding reliable information of academic quality is more difficult. In this course you will learn how to maximise your chances of finding reliable Internet information and how to be sure that what you find is of appropriate quality for your purposes.   
Presenter: Anne Manuel . 
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZD18

Not a member of Oxford University?
If you have a Bodleian Libraries readers card you are welcome to attend WISER sessions even if you are not a member of the University. Please email usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk to book your place.  Members of Oxford University should book using the links above,

Keeping up with WISER
We’re on Twitter – please follow us at http://twitter.com/oxwiser or to receive WISER updates by RSS feed subscribe to http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ulib/usered-events-wiser/rss10.xml

If you have any queries please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Do you have trouble finding stuff in the Library or online? If so, check out the WISER Finding Stuff series next Wednesday afternoon.  We will be covering books, journal articles, theses and dissertations and
conferences:

WISER: Finding Stuff – Books etc on SOLO
An introduction to finding books and journal titles in Oxford libraries using SOLO.
Presenters: Angela Carritt and Penny Roberts. 
Date: Wednesday 3 November 12.30pm – 1.30pm (Week 4) (repeated Friday 19 November 9.15 – 10.15am Week 6)
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZWA

WISER: Finding Stuff – Journal Articles
This session will focus on finding journal articles for your research and will cover a broad range
of databases as well as helping you to develop effective search strategies.  There will be plenty of time for participants to try out their own searches using databases for their subject.
Presenters: Angela Carritt and Penny Roberts.
Date: Wednesday 3 November 1.30 – 2.30pm (Week 4) (this class will be repeated Friday 19 November 10.15 – 11.15am Week 6)
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZW3

WISER: Finding Stuff – Theses and Dissertations
Guidance on finding theses, both those submitted to and held in Oxford, and those from other institutions in the UK and abroad. The session will demonstrate how to exploit some of the main sources of information including SOLO, Index to Theses (UK and Ireland), Dissertations and Theses (International), EThOS
and ORA.
Presenter:  Jayne Plant
Date: Wednesday 3 November 2.30 – 3.30pm (Week 4) (repeated Friday 19
November 11.30 – 12.30pm Week 6)
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZW4

WISER: Finding Stuff – Conferences
Conference papers can be difficult to find but they are valuable because they describe cutting-edge research. This session will enable you to find out about forthcoming conferences and also to locate the published papers of proceedings which have taken place.
Presenters:  James Shaw and Sue Bird 
Date: Wednesday 3 November 3.30 – 4.30pm  (Week 4)
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZW5

Not a member of Oxford University?
If you have a Bodleian Libraries readers card you are welcome to attend WISER sessions even if you are not a member of the University. Please email usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk to book your place.  Members of Oxford University should book using the
links above.

Want to keep up with WISER?
To receive a weekly email listing WISER sessions please send an empty email to wiser-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk. We promise we will only email you once a week and that we will not pass your email address to anyone else. We’re also on Twitter – please follow us at http://twitter.com/oxwiser, or to receive WISER updates by RSS feed subscribe to http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ulib/usered-events-wiser/rss10.xml

If you have any queries please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

WISER (Workshops in Information Skills and Electronic Resources) is a series of free workshops run by Oxford Libraries to help you to make the most of electronic and printed information sources in your research and learning.     Next week we kick off the academic year by taking a look at bibliometrics and citation tracking for measuring research impact and also introduce the reference management tool, RefWorks.   

WISER: Who’s citing you? Tools for tracking citations
Knowing where and how often you’re cited is increasingly important for grant and job applications. In addition citation tracking can help you to follow the progress of research over time and to analyse how papers in your research field relate to one another. In this session we introduce citation tracking using Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar and demonstrate how each service can be used to find out who’s citing you!    There will be time during the session to practice using each service. This session is followed by “WISER: Bibliometrics: The Black Art of Citation Ranking” which will examine impact factors in greater detail.   Presenters: Juliet Ralph and Angela Carritt 
Date: Wednesday 27 October 2.00 – 3.30pm (Week 3).
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZD19

WISER: Bibliometrics – the Black Art of Citation Ranking
Mystified by metrics? Anxious about impact factors? Happy with your h-index? Measuring research impact is increasingly important when making grant applications, comparing the outputs of research groups and even in recruitment and selection.   This session covers how they work, how they are interpreted and how to make them work for you!  We will look at measuring the impact of individual papers, researchers and research groups and finding highly cited journals.
Presenters: Juliet Ralph and Angela Carritt
Date:  Wednesday 27 October 3.30 – 4.30pm (Week 3).
Book your place at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZD14

RefWorks for Humanities
RefWorks is an online tool which allows you to manage your references, insert them into your work, automatically generate bibliographies and easily switch between citation styles. This introduction is open to all, but the section on importing references will focus on Humanities examples.
Presenters: Valerie Lawrence and Shona McLean.
Date.  Friday 29 October 9.15am – 12.15pm (Week 3).
Book at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TDBM.

Want to keep up with WISER?    To receive a weekly email listing WISER sessions please send an empty email to wiser-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk. We promise we will only email you once a week and that we will not pass your email address to anyone else. We’re also on Twitter – please follow us at http://twitter.com/oxwiser  or to receive WISER updates by RSS feed subscribe to http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ulib/usered-events-wiser/rss10.xml

Not a member of Oxford University?  – If you have a Bodleian Libraries readers card you are welcome to attend WISER sessions even if you are not a member of the University. Please email usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk to book your place.  Members of Oxford University should book using the links above.

The WISER programme of workshops for Michaelmas Term is now available on the Bodleian Libraries website at: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/wiser.  There are a lot of useful hour-long sessions on finding resources and managing your research, all free and taking place at OUCS on Banbury Road.

Throughout the term I will publish weekly updates of upcoming courses here on this blog.  You can also subscribe to the WISER mailing list yourself (send an email to wiser-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk), or keep up to date via the WISER blog or Twitter.  The WISER blog also includes lots of extra information and tips about finding information, using resources, and managing your research, so is well worth a look!

There’s lots going on for WISER next week, including a session specifically on sources for US history. The week starts by looking at e-books with a “Finding Stuff” session on finding e-books for your research and study, followed by a look at e-book readers including the new iPad. Later in the week, “The Black Art of Citation Ranking” looks at measuring research impact using citations and measuring your h-index and the final session of the week introduces key sources for the study of US history. Please book your places.

WISER: Finding stuff – books, journals on SOLO
A general introduction to finding books and journal titles in Oxford libraries using SOLO.
Presenters: Angela Carritt.
Date: Monday 7 June 1.30 – 2.30.
Booking: University members – http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZWA. Non University members please book by emailing usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

WISER: Finding stuff – e-books
An overview of what is currently available and how to access them from the point of view of the student, the researcher and the academic considering using e-books to resource their courses.
Presenters: Hilla Wait and Juliet Ralph.
Date: Monday 7 June 2.30 -3.30.
Booking: University members – http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZC4 . Non University members please book by emailing usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

WISER: E-book Readers – pros and cons
How useful are e-book readers in academic work? Can they be used for accessing library materials? What are the features to look out for when considering purchase? Can they be used with pdf’s? These and similar questions will be considered with particular reference to the Amazon Kindle, Sony Touch and iPad e-readers.
Presenter: Roger Mills.
Date: Monday 7 June 3.45 – 4.45.
Booking: University members – http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZE11 . Non University members please book by emailing usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

WISER: Bibliometrics – the black art of citation rankings
Mystified by metrics? Anxious about impact factors? Happy with your h-index? The forthcoming Research Excellence Framework is likely to place increased emphasis on the use of these measures. This session covers how they work, how they are interpreted and how to make them work for you!
Presenter: Roger Mills.
Date: Thursday 10 June 12.30 – 1.30 .
Booking: University members – http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZD14 . Non University members please book by emailing usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

WISER: Sources for US History
This session will introduce key information sources for the study of colonial America and US history up to 1990. Starting with useful finding tools to locate relevant material, examples of source materials will then be shown. These include archival, microform, printed and online collections as well as useful web portals and audiovisual collections.
Presenter: Isabel Holowaty.
Date: Friday 11 June 12.30 -1.30 .
Booking: University members – http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZE9 . Non University members please book by emailing usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

WISER is on Twitter – please follow at http://twitter.com/oxwiser.  Alternatively to receive a weekly email listing WISER sessions please send an empty email to wiser-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk or to receive WISER updates by RSS feed subscribe to http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ulib/usered-events-wiser/rss10.xml

Next week’s WISER sessions introduce e-resources for historians and look out how to find reliable academic information on the web.

WISER: Online Resources for Historians
This session will give a general introduction to the vast range of electronic resources which are available for all historical periods for British & Western European history: bibliographical databases, biographical or reference research aids, ebooks and ejournals, web portals, and especially the growing collections of online primary source materials.
Presenter: Isabel Holowaty
Date: Thursday 3 June 12.30-1.30
Booking: University members http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZC26. Non University members please book by emailing usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

WISER: Using the Internet to Find Quality Resources
Finding information on the internet is fairly easy. Finding reliable information of academic quality is more difficult. In this course you will learn how to maximise your chances of finding reliable internet information and how to be sure that what you find is of appropriate quality for your purposes.
Presenter: Anne Manuel
Date: Friday 4 June 12.30-1.30
Booking: University members – http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZD18. Non University members please book by emailing usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

WISER is on Twitter – please follow at http://twitter.com/oxwiser. Alternatively to receive a weekly email listing WISER sessions please send an empty email to wiser-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk or to receive WISER updates by RSS feed subscribe to http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ulib/usered-events-wiser/rss10.xml

Next week’s WISER programme introduces key information sources for African Studies and looks at digital mapping.

WISER: Information Sources for African Studies
This session will introduce key information sources for African Studies. You will be shown useful finding tools to locate relevant material via SOLO and how to
search them, as well as important portals and gateways to libraries and archives of online primary texts. There will be time for a brief hands-on at the end.
Presenters: Lucy McCann and Sarah Rhodes.
Date: Monday 24 May 12.30-1.30
Booking: University members – http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZD16. Non University members please book by emailing usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

WISER: Maps and Mapping
Many areas of research use spatial data and digital mapping is an ideal way to present it. This presentation will cover both web based resources (online map collections etc) and the digital mapping facilities available in the Bodleian. Presenter: Nick Millea.
Date: Thursday 27 May 12.30-1.30
Booking: University members – http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZF7. Non University members please book by emailing usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

WISER is on Twitter – please follow us at http://twitter.com/oxwiser. Alternatively to receive a weekly email listing WISER sessions please send an empty email to wiser-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk, or to receive WISER updates by RSS feed subscribe to http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ulib/usered-events-wiser/rss10.xml

Do you need to know where and how often you are being cited? Would you like to know more about managing ciations using RefWorks? Check out next week’s WISER sessions on these topics:

WISER: Who’s Citing You? Tools for Tracking Citations
Citation-tracking databases can help you monitor the impact of your research. Knowing where and how often you’re being cited is useful for grant or job applications, and deciding where to submit an article for publication. We cover citation searching in Web of Science, Scopus & Google Scholar.
Presenters: Juliet Ralph and Angela Carritt.
Date Monday 17 May 12.30-1.30.
Booking: University members – http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZD19.
Non University members please book by emailing usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

RefWorks for Sciences and Social Sciences
RefWorks is an online tool which allows you to manage your references, insert them into your work, automatically generate bibliographies and easily switch between citation styles. This introduction is open to all but the section on importing references will focus on Science/Social Science examples.
Presenters: Nia Roberts, Gillian Pritchard and Valerie Lawrence
Date: Tuesday 18 May 2.00-5.00.
Booking: University member – http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TDBL.
Non University members please book by emailing usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

WISER is on Twitter – please follow at http://twitter.com/oxwiser. Alternatively to receive a weekly email listing WISER sessions please send an empty email to wiser-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk or to receive WISER updates by RSS feed subscribe to http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ulib/usered-events-wiser/rss10.xml

Next week’s WISER will be covering finding publications to support your research and teaching (“Finding Stuff”). In addition we will be looking at using the Bodleian’s manuscript collections and comparing the
reference management systems Endnote, RefWorks and Zotero. Please book your places:

WISER: Finding Stuff – Books and Journals on SOLO
A general introduction to finding books and journal titles in Oxford libraries using SOLO and OLIS.  For detailed information about searching for journal articles, theses and conference papers please see other titles in the WISER Finding Stuff series.
Angela Carritt and Kerry Webb.
Monday 10 May 9.15-10.00.
Book at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZWA

WISER: Finding Stuff – Journal Articles
This session will focus on finding journal articles for your research using a wide range of databases as well as developing effective search strategies. There
will be plenty of time for participants to try out their own searches
using databases for their subject.
Kerry Webb and Angela Carritt.
Monday 10 May 10.15-11.15.
Book at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZW3

WISER: Finding Stuff – Theses and Dissertations
This session offers guidance on finding theses, both those submitted to and held in Oxford, and those from other institutions in the UK and abroad. It will demonstrate how to exploit some of the main sources of information: SOLO, Index to Theses (UK and Ireland); and Dissertations and Theses (International) EThOS and ORA.
Jayne Plant.
Monday 10 May 11.30-12.30
Book at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZW4

WISER: Finding stuff – Conferences
Conference papers can be difficult to find but they are valuable because they describe cutting-edge research. This session will enable you to find out about forthcoming conferences and also to locate the published papers of proceedings which
have taken place.
James Shaw and Sue Bird.
Monday 10 May 12.30-1.30
Book at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZW5

WISER: Manuscripts
This session will give an introductory overview of the rich heritage collections preserved in the Bodleian. This session will also help readers to locate relevant material and describe the procedures for access and getting assistance.
Mike Webb
Thursday 13 May 12.30-1.30
Book at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZWP

WISER: Technology Tools – Reference Management
Keeping track of your references and formatting them correctly for your thesis or publication is a chore. Reference management software makes it easy and is worth
investigating. This introductory session gives an overview of how it works and the pros and cons of RefWorks, EndNote and other tools.
Gillian Pritchard and Angela Carritt.
Friday 14 May 12.30-1.30.
Book at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TZW6

WISER is on Twitter – please follow at http://twitter.com/oxwiser

Alternatively to receive a weekly email listing WISER sessions please
send an empty email to wiser-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk or to receive
WISER updates by RSS feed subscribe to http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ulib/usered-events-wiser/rss10.xml