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08 Nov 2024

Workshops this month

for graduate researchers, early career researchers, supervisors and staff.

By Library


A series of professional development workshops will be offered this month to support graduate researchers, early career researchers, academic supervisors, and staff.

This workshop is an introduction to Strategic Publishing and will be delivered by Faculty Librarians.
It will cover:
  • How to identify predatory publishers and avoid them.
  • How to choose outlets for publishing your research.
  • How to use databases and other tools to answer your questions about the relevance and reputation of a journal or other publication that you are considering.
  • The importance of Researcher Profiles and benefits of Open Access to increase the visibility of your research.
  • How to publicise your research for greater impact.
19th November

This training session will introduce you to Pure and give you the resources you need to manage your Pure profile and maintain your research outputs within Pure.
The session will cover:
  • What is the Pure RMS
  • Populating your profile:
    Populate your profile biography
    Create or Connect your ORCID
    Add you Scopus ID
    Add links to websites, e.g. your personal website, Google Scholar, etc.
  • Research outputs:
    Set up the automated search to find and import your research outputs
    Other methods of adding/importing research outputs into Pure
    Open access and grant compliance
    The validation and verification process
21st November

SciVal is a research performance assessment tool that provides analysis of publication and citation data included in Scopus. Scopus covers over 30 million publications from 1996 to the present.
SciVal does a weekly check for new publications in Scopus. Researchers and institutions in SciVal are then automatically updated with any new publications found in Scopus.
SciVal can give you access to the performance of your own research, the university, and individual researchers and institutions worldwide.
SciVal lets you visualise research performance, benchmark against peers using a number of metrics, review co-author networks, and identify potential collaborative partnerships.
Please see information of more metrics tools from library guide Research Impact Metrics.
22nd November
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