Discover Discover Workshop *Today*

Discover Discover, a session on using our library search tool to its fullest potential for your research, will be taking place TODAY at 2:00 in SK036

Just drop in or pre-register on EventBrite


If you can't make it today, the next Discover Discover session will take place on 13 March 2014 at 11:00 pre-register.

Bag a Book

ILS are selling jute tote bags in 10 eye-catching colours. £2.50 each and they're available at the Question Point in the ground floor of Fountains Learning Centre.

Research Support Sessions

ILS will be offering a number of sessions to support postgraduate researchers this term.  The first ones are outlined below. Just use the links for more information and to book on.

Discover Discover

Tues 28^th Jan, 2pm: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ysj-ils-research-support-sessions-discover-discover-tickets-10101591131

Thur 13^th Mar, 11am: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ysj-ils-research-support-sessions-discover-discover-tickets-10112888923

Research, Social Media and Getting Published

Mon 10^th Feb, 2pm: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ysj-ils-research-support-sessions-research-social-media-and-getting-published-tickets-10112929043

Thur 20^th Mar, 9.30am: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ysj-ils-research-support-sessions-research-social-media-and-getting-published-tickets-10112949103

Keeping Track of Your Reading

Mon 17^th Feb, 11am: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ysj-ils-research-support-sessions-keeping-track-of-your-reading-tickets-10112961139

Tues 25^th Mar, 2pm: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ysj-ils-research-support-sessions-keeping-track-of-your-reading-tickets-10112993235

Using RefGrab-It for RefWorks

Refworks has recently improved its RefGrab-It feature, which captures book or article information from a webpage and allows you to import the citation data into your RefWorks library with a few clicks. RefGrab-It is actually a bookmarklet that you install in your browser. Currently it only works with IE and Firefox but if it starts working in Chrome and Safari we'll let you know.

  

RefGrab-It Video Tutorial from ProQuest  

If your new year's resolution is to create better bibliographies, consider using YSJ's license for RefWorks software. Struggling with RefWorks or wanting to use it more effectively? We offer beginning and advanced RefWorks tutorials in Fountains once a month on a Thursday from 1:00-2:00PM.

• RefWorks Tutorials, FT 210
• Thursday 30 January, 2014 1:00-2:00PM
• Thursday 20 February, 2014 1:00-2:00PM
• Thursday 13 March, 2014 1:00-2:00PM
• Thursday 3 April, 2014 1:00-2:00PM

Research support sessions coming up

We are planning to run a number of support sessions specifically for postgraduate researchers during the Spring Term.  Here is a quick overview on what will be on offer:

Discover Discover

Covering:

·         What Discover does

·         Advanced search options

·         Personalisation

o   My account

o   Saved searches and alerts

·         Going beyond Discover

Research, social media and getting published

Covering:

·         Social media and the pros/cons

o   Blogs and Twitter

o   Researchgate, LinkedIn

o   Caution when ‘pre-publishing’ for future journal publication

·         Journals and impact factors

o   What the different types are

o   How to find them. What are they?

o   Other considerations (e.g. open access)

 

Keeping track of your reading

Covering:

·         Current awareness alerts

o   Zetoc and Ebsco offerings

·         RefWorks

·         Options for collating RSS feeds

·         Tools for organising your digital and physical library

Dates and times are being organised right now, so we'll have news of those and links to book in very soon.

Research in the New Year and our Satisfaction Survey

Happy new year from ILS! We hope 2014 is a productive and engaging year for your research. If one of your resolutions involves tackling a new technology or searching for new sources, please come see your Academic Liaison Librarian. We're now back in the office, our department is running as usual and we're busy scheduling drop-in sessions and training for the coming months. We'll announce the details here, on our webpages and via Twitter (@YSJ_ILS) as soon as we have them nailed down.

If you want to discuss your needs 1-2-1, here are our tuturial bookers and contact details.

Many of you have responded to our researcher satisfaction survey and we're glad to have your feedback. We plan to close the survey tomorrow, 3 January 2014. If you haven't yet responded, please do. Watch this space as we report back and respond to what you've told us.