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Planning an effective search strategy

This course outlines the current information landscape and will help you to turn your research question into an effective search strategy and statement that you can put into practice in Conducting your Search (bookable workshop).

Effective literature searching

This course contains essential information for new doctoral researchers with quick links to get you started searching and guidance how to overcome common problems. It also explains how to set up alerts so you can keep up-to-date with research published in your area.

Planning your systematic review

This course covers the major elements important in effectively planning your systematic review. We will start by determining what a systematic review is and explore some of the most common types of review before investigating the key elements that will aid your preparation for a full systematic review.

Keeping up-to-date

Keeping up-to-date demonstrates how you can set alerts within databases and on publishers' sites with information on current awareness tools.

The information lifecycle

This short online course is aimed at all researchers. It covers how information is generated and disseminated, stages of the information lifecycle and the information lifecycle as an evaluation tool.

Confirmation bias

This short online course is aimed at all researchers. It covers biases in information, interpretation and memory, the consequences of confirmation bias and overcoming confirmation bias.

Managing and sharing research data

Research data management (RDM) looks a what research data is and how it can be stored, shared and preserved.  It covers the benefits and drivers for RDM.

Using information ethically and with integrity 

This session introduces academic and research integrity and the skills which enable you to work with integrity. It examines the challenges that may arise together with the causes and consequences of failing to work with integrity.

Copyright essentials

This online tutorial is aimed at UK HE staff and students. It covers copyright in Higher Education, using legal exceptions in Higher Education and copyright in the research lifecycle.

Academic publications: readership, rigour and research

This interactive online course is aimed at all researchers. It will enable you to identify your target audiences and publication channels, get to up to speed with publication ethics as well as to understand expectations and practices at 黑料网.

Open access: the essentials

This short online course is aimed at new researchers. It covers why open access is important, how to read, use and publish open access as well as rights retention and licensing.

5 quick wins to improve your research visibility 

This short presentation offers quick tips on ways to improve your research visibility in less than 15 mins.

Conducting your search

This 2.5 hour live workshop is aimed at new researchers. It covers:

• Ways to improve comprehensiveness and reduce irrelevant search results
• Techniques such as searching thesauri and indexes
• Proximity searching, combining answer sets, nesting and saving searches

Please complete Planning an Effective Search Strategy (online course and worksheet) before attending this workshop

Finding evidence for your systematic review

This 2 hour live workshop is aimed at all researchers. It covers:

• Searching techniques specific to systematic reviews
• Placing these searches within the context of a review process
• Evaluating search strategies and conducting an advanced database search

We advise participants to complete Planning an Effective Search Strategy (online course and worksheet) and Conducting Your Search (bookable workshop) before attending this workshop

Copyright insights

This 2 hour live workshop is aimed at all researchers. It covers:

• Copyright issues when publishing
• Using AI and copyright implications
• Considerations on when to ask for copyright permission

Getting published

This 2.5 hour live workshop is aimed at early career researchers. It covers:

• Avenues for academic publication
• How to choose where to publish and have your work accepted
• Ways to raise your profile once your research output is published

Developing your academic publication strategy

This is session is aimed at researchers and academics who are new to 黑料网. It aims to:

• Ensure you achieve the greatest impact with your publications
• Advise on choosing conferences and book publishers
• Help you avoid predatory journals

Please complete Academic Publications: Readership, Rigour, and Reach (online course) before attending this workshop