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Measuring impact: h-index, journal impact factors and altmetrics
Want to calculate your h-index or find the most highly cited journals? If so, come along to Bodleian Libraries bibliometrics workshops next week… Bibliometrics I: Who’s citing you? will introduce...
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RefWorks, Mendeley and reference management
This term Bodleian Libraries will be running our popular RefWorks classes, a new workshop on Mendeley for reference management and “Tech Tools – reference management” which compares and introduces...
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Taking the pain out of keeping up to date with new research
Keeping up with new publications and developments in your research field can be a nightmare. Thankfully tools such as RSS feeds and email alerts can make this task much easier. Bodleian Libraries...
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Are you ready for Open Access?
From 1 April all research papers arising from research funded by RCUK funding councils, must be open access. This can be achieved either by providing free and unrestricted access to the final version...
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Mendeley for reference management – a refreshing change?
Mendeley is a relatively new reference management tool and one which is receiving a great deal of extremely positive feedback. It does all the things that traditional reference mangement packages do...
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Finding scholarly materials: articles, conferences, theses and more…
Bodleian Libraries will be kicking this term’s WISER programme off with our popular ‘Finding Stuff’ workshops in week 2: WISER: Finding stuff – Journal Articles (Monday 29 Apr 9.45-11.15) – an...
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Getting to grips with reference management: RefWorks, Mendeley, Zotero and...
Do you stuggle with your references or bibliographies? If so, then reference management software is there to help you. This term, Bodleian Libraries will be running workshops on two popular reference...
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Open Access Oxford – What’s happening?
Are you ready for Open Access? If you received a research grant from one of the RCUK research councils after 1st April this year, then it will include a requirement to make research papers arising...
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Workshops for historians…
This term Bodleian Libraires will be running a number of workshops for Historians… WISER: Online Resources for Historians (Tuesday 28 May 9.15-10.30) - This session will give a general introduction to...
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Calling Philosophy and Theology students
Are you making the most of e-resources for Theology and Philosophy? Are you sure? On Wednesday 5 June 14.00-15.30, Bodleian Libraries will be running a WISER session on E-resources for Theology and...
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Are you using the best sources for your research in African Studies?
On Friday 7th June Bodleian Libraries will be running a workshop on information sources for African Studies. The session will cover finding tools for locating African Studies materials, key portals...
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Do you use Google Reader?
Google’s RSS feed reader, Google Reader will be closing permanently on 1st July this year so if you’re using Google Reader you need to start looking for an alternative now. Bodleian Libraries can...
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What you need to know about Open Access…
Are you in receipt of a grant from one of the UK Research Councils or involved in supporting researchers in receipt of such grants? If so, you will need to ensure that articles and conference papers...
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Open Access Oxford – Talks, workshops and surgeries for Open Access week
Bodleian Libraries will be running a programme of Open Access talks and workshops throughout the 2013/14 academic year, kicking off in Open Access week (21-25 October) with an exciting talk by Sophie...
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Making the most of e-books and e-book readers
Are you making the most of academic e-books? Have you considered using an e-book reader? On Thursday 7 November Bodleian Libraries will be running WISER sessions on making the most of e-books in...
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Images for use in your research – ARTstor, BridgemanEducation and VADS
Bodleian Libraries has subscriptions to ARTstor and BridgemanEducation, both of which are databases that bring together thousands of digital images for use in the humanities, history of science and...
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Measuring research impact
Want to calculate your h-index or find the most highly cited journals? If so, come along to Bodleian Libraries research impact workshops next week… WISER Research Impact I: Who’s citing you? will...
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Open Access: eLife – a new open access journal by scientists for scientists
eLife launched in December 2012 as a funder-researcher collaborative and open-access journal for outstanding research in Life Sciences and Biomedicine. Prof Chris Ponting (DPAG and Senior Editor at...
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Time travel on the web – web archives for your research
Have you ever wanted to see how information and conversation on the web has evolved over time or responded to a particular event or trend? Would you like to be research how an organisation, web site or...
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How do I rate thee? Let me count the tweets!
Don’t forget that this week, Mike Taylor from Elsevier Labs will be talking about measuring impact using altmetrics in his talk “How do I rate thee? Let me count the tweets”. Mike’s talk will discuss...
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