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Guidance for Researchers: 2022 workshops

This guide aims to support academics in many aspects of their research with workshops, information about publishing trends, and any useful tools and resources.

Previous Workshops

We keep the information and materials from the previous workshops on this page for your information.

Please contact Guojin Liu if you would like to access the recordings.

Advanced Searching Using Scopus and Web of Science (2022-06-21)

This session will help you design a search strategy, conduct a basic document search, expand your search results, download and export your results and save your searches and create search alerts. Key features include:

  1. Advanced searching using Scopus
  2. Advanced searching using Web of Science

Speaker: James Dean, Learning, Teaching and Research Librarian, The Library & Learning Resources. 

James is a Learning, Teaching and Research Librarian at Birmingham City University, working with the Faculty of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment to deliver information literacy sessions to all levels of students and staff. James has worked at Birmingham City University for over 30 years in much the same role. He has been nominated in the Professional Services staff of the year category at the I AM BCU awards for 4 of the last 5 years.  He had previously worked at the Mott MacDonald library in Croydon supporting the information needs of civil engineering consultants and worked for a year at the London Library, one of the world's leading literary institutions.

This workshop took place on Wednesday 21st June, 10-11.30am, Online. The recording is accessible below. 

Using EndNote to Manage Your References (2022-06-22)

This session will help you create an account with EndNote Web and show you how to use EndNote to cite and manage your references. Key features include:

  1. How to import and export references into EndNote from a range of sources.
  2. Creating a library of references and manage your library by creating groups.
  3. Organizing your references.
  4. Using EndNote with Word, selecting BCU Harvard as a bibliographic style and inserting citations into a document.

Speaker: Jagjit Marwaha from IT services. 

This workshop took place Thursday 22nd June, 10-11.30am, Online.  Slides and notes were enclosed below for information. 

Students or/and staff who want to learn about EndNote or have queries about EndNote e.g. using Cite While You Write, should contact the IT Helpdesk, or alternatively email Jagjit Marwaha to arrange a tutorial.

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