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A new term begins and so too does our research skills training program. Topics include literature searching, managing research data, using Endnote and Zotero and much more. See the full program below. The majority of sessions are online. All times are UK local times. If you have any questions, please get in touch: librarians@leicester.ac.uk Session […]
Lis-Bibliometrics Conference 2024: Exploring The Bibliometric Universe
Merinne Whitton, research metrics lead in the Research Services team, reports back from the recent Lis-Bibliometrics Conference. In January 2024 I joined the organising committee of the LIS-Bibliometrics Community as the Open Research Officer. Not long after this, I joined the sub-committee responsible for the delivery of the Community’s annual conference. The 2024 conference was […]
Research Skills Training for Autumn 2024
A new term begins and so too does our research skills training program. This Autumn we will be running the following workshops for researchers at the University of Leicester. Research students should sign-up to events via MyPGR; staff should sign-up via Eventbrite. We will repeat the majority of these sessions in 2025. If you have […]
Summer Term Research Skills Training
We have just released our research skills training program for the summer term. These sessions are open to research students and research staff in all departments and colleges. The majority are run online via Teams. Research students can find all these sessions listed in MyPGR. Staff can sign-up to them via the Eventbrite links. Any […]
Call for Peer Reviewers – Museological Review, Issue 27
Museological Review, Issue 27 – What if we could trust the ground under our feet? Museums as spaces of rootedness and response-ability Museological Review (MR) is an online peer-reviewed journal, published annually by the community of PhD students of the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Museological Review’s theme for its 27th issue is […]
Event: Open Research Week 2024
We have joined forces with Loughborough University and De Montfort University to celebrate Open Research Week 2024 (26 Feb – 1 March). A series of online talks promotes the practice of openly sharing and re-using research-related materials, for both education and research. Included are a range of disciplines, research life-cycle stages and experiences. All sessions […]
Library research skills sessions this term
The latest research skills class run by the Library are now being advertised on MyPGR . They are open to all research students at the University of Leicester. Highlights include: This term all these sessions will run online via Teams. If you can’t make a session, there will be recordings available via Research Essentials Online […]
UKRI Open Access Policy Refresher – 9 Jan 2024
Funded by UKRI? Planning to produce a monograph, book chapter or edited collection? Join the Library Research Services team for a refresh on the latest changes to the UKRI Open Access policy for books, and to hear how Leicester authors can access the funds and advice available to them. When: Tuesday 9 Jan 2024, 12 […]
Call For Papers: Museological Review Issue 27
What if we could trust the ground under our feet? Museums as spaces of rootedness and response-ability Our friends at the journal Museological Review have a new Call for Paper, which we would like to share with you. The submission deadline for abstracts/proposals has been extended to: Monday, January 29 2024. Sometimes it seems like the […]
Library events for International Open Access Week, 23-29 October 2023
International Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research. This year’s theme, Community Over […]