This guide provides you with information and support material covered by the Postgraduate Research Programme, as well as links to other academic services you may find helpful during your research journey
To look forward to the future, you may want to look at our Academic Publishing guide, to give you an insight into how the Academic publishing world works.
Your Research Librarian is Ellie Downes
I currently work flexibly and primarily carry out appointments via Zoom as it can be useful to share screens and record one-to-ones for you to look back on, but am happy to arrange in-person appointments if wanted.
Come to this if you...Want a welcome to the library, to find out how our systems works and how to access resources for your subject area
Find out how your subject librarian can help you and see the…
This session aims to explore the current state of academic publishing focusing primarily on Journal Articles, and the transition currently underway towards Open Access.
This will include;
- How…
This session covers the basics of what the term ‘Open Access’ means and how it is and will affect your academic career and research output. This is designed to be an introduction to the principles beh…
Working Smarter: digital tools for researchers that can save you time
Would like recommendations of innovative online tools and apps that will help you work more efficiently
Research workflo…
This session takes you through how the process works, what you should do and when (e.g. publishing open access and needing funding for an APC)
Publishing in academic journals is a key element of ac…
Are you interested in using more sophisticated search techniques to get better, faster results for your literature review?
This session will introduce more advanced literature search techniques to…
The pressure to publish is ever-present for researchers and academics, and accompanying this has been a rise in 'predatory journals'. These can exploit and target anyone from a first-time auth…
Aimed at anyone undertaking research (regardless of contract or pathway). This session covers the benefit of a Researcher ID, signing up for an ORCID and ensuring it auto-updates – minimising the manu…
Come to this if you...If you want to save time and prevent errors in your citations and reference list, reference management software can make your academic work easier: it will keep all your refe…
This session explores the developing methods used in measuring research impact, including bibliometrics - which can include citation rates, publishing rates and institutional collaboration.
There …
This session explores the fundamentals of why you should share your research to a wide audience, what platform work best for academic work, as well as specific Academic Social Networking platforms. Co…
Need to keep up to date with new developments on your topic over the course of your research degree (but fear information overload..) ?
A literature search often takes place early in a research…
This session explores the various ‘Read and Publish’ deals the library has available to researchers to help publish their research Open Access, and the various conditions which staff need to make use …
Come to this if you...Want to promote your research using Twitter and use it to raise your researcher profile?
Researchers are encouraged to use Twitter to promote their research, engage and networ…
This session demonstrates how to add your publications to RIS, which in turn feeds into your staff profile. All staff publishing research are required to create a record for the work in RIS in order t…