MU Library will be presenting a series of Online Workshops for MU Academics & Researchers which will be running daily from Tuesday July 6th to Thursday July 8th, 10.30am to 11.30am and are open for booking now:
There will be three workshops in this series, each lasting 60 minutes (including 15 minutes Q&A). They will be hosted by Ciarán Quinn the Research Support Librarian.
They are:
Measuring Research Impact: An Introduction to the tools (Scopus, SciVal, Web of Science) available to measure and present your personal research impact (for example to include in your cv or as part of a funding application), to benchmark your impact against other researchers or institutions, identify potential research collaborations and finding the highest impact journals in your field. The options regarding Open Access publishing will also be considered.
Advanced Searching Strategies: This session will provide an overview of the types of research resources available via MU Library and how to search them in a more systematic, controlled and effective manner. This will include Boolean (using AND, OR) searching, subject/keyword searching, using truncation and wildcards, limiting/filtering your searches, and saving your search histories and search strings.
Endnote Reference Management Software: MU has a subscription to the desktop and online versions of Endnote. Both will be covered in this session. You will be shown how to set up an account, populate it with bibliographic records and PDF’s, sort them into groups and format them into bibliographies for your papers. We will also look at the cite while you write tool, which allows you to create intext citations or footnotes and bibliographies for your papers in real time as you write.
Queries can be sent to ciaran.quinn@mu.ie.
Ciarán is also happy to organise any additional workshops/training that you may wish to request.
Possible topics include those covered in the Research Support Guides.
