Research Skills Training for Autumn 2025
Another term begins, and so too does our research skills training program. We will be offering workshops on areas including literature searching, referencing software, open access, understanding metrics and managing research data. Intended for research students and staff conducting, or supporting, research most of the sessions will be run online. The full program is below. […]
Research skills training in May and June
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. If you have any questions, please email us: librarians@leicester.ac.uk. The majority of sessions are online only. All times are local UK time. Session Date and time Links Literature […]
Research skills training – Spring 2025
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
New ways of using the Historical Directories collection
Over the last 18 months, we have been collaborating with a research project called the Congruence Engine. One strand of the project has been experimenting with new ways of using our Historical Directories collection. Daniel Wilson from the project has written a blog post this week getting into the technical side of this. The workshop […]
A day in the life: research services out and about in Nottingham May 2023
This is the final blog post [3/3] focussing on three different open research events attended by members of the University Library Research Services Team. This post covers an event held very close to home (minimal travel, hurrah), held in Nottingham, at the Nottingham Trent University (NTU). Radoslaw Pajor, research services consultant for research data management […]