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Dissertation Week is all about how the Library can support the student dissertation experience: from exploring what library resources are available to support a research question, to managing the bibliographic and research data students find. During the week a series of events will highlight the training, support and resources we offer to our undergraduate and taught postgraduate students undertaking their dissertations, as well as staff supervising dissertations.
Come to the Dissertations Fair event on Thursday 14th November, at the Main Library (ML1.07), where you can:
Who will be at the Fair?
Registration at: https://edin.ac/34Oi3PH
(*) Attending and presenting.
Running alongside will be a series of presentations on library services and digital resources.
Registration at: https://edin.ac/36dpq4A
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10:00 – 10:50 |
Exploring ProQuest Primary and Secondary Resources to Improve your Dissertation |
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11:00 – 11:50 |
Using primary sources to improve your dissertation - |
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13:30 – 16:30 |
Dissertation Fair |
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13:10 – 14:00 |
#WeHaveGreatStuff |
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13:15 – 13:45 |
Fake News vs Real News: Discovering News Sources |
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14:10 – 15:00 |
Sage Research Methods: What every researcher needs |
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15:10 – 16:00 |
Gale Primary Sources for your Dissertation: Archives and Platform |
Are you planning on consulting Google Scholar to find literature for your dissertation? While it is very easy to use and can be a good place to start, particularly since you can set it to retrieve what we have in the Library, it does have its limitations. As its coverage is not clear, you cannot be sure just what you might be missing with Google. Which is where the Library can help!
As part of our Dissertation Week (11-15 Nov), we are holding a Dissertation Fair on Thurs 14 Nov at the Main Library. The Fair highlights the range of resources and support available across the University, including the Institute for Academic Development, IS Digital Skills and more.
The Dissertation Fair is open to all students (13:30-16:30) to allow you to discover the wealth of library collections and resources available to support you with your dissertation research
A staff preview event is also available 10:00-12:00 on the same day.
For the first time at the University of Edinburgh Library we are planning to hold a Dissertation Week in November 11-15 2019. This week is all about how the Library can support the student dissertation experience : from exploring what library resources are available to support a research question, to managing the bibliographic and research data students find. During the week a series of events will highlight the training, support and resources we offer to our undergraduate and taught postgraduate students undertaking their dissertations, as well as staff supervising dissertations.
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11 Nov |
12:10 – 13:00 |
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(Online) Citing sources and creating bibliographies with Endnote (Open) |
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14:00 – 16:00 |
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Digital Primary Sources for Culture, Data and Society (Open) |
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12 Nov |
13:15 – 13:45 |
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How to Reference and Avoid Plagiarism (Open) |
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14:30 – 16:30 |
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Working with Personal and Sensitive Data (RDS003) @ KB (PG,Staff) |
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17:15 – 18:45 |
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Start Thinking About Dissertations and Projects (Open) |
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13 Nov |
10:00 – 12:00 |
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Study Resources for Literature Reviews (Open) (IS Digital Skills) |
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11:45 – 12:45 |
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(Online) Get the Best From Your Library for Dissertations |
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12:30 – 13:00 |
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Library Clinic @ King's Buildings (Open) |
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13:00 – 13:30 |
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Library Clinic @ King's Buildings (Open) |
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15:00 – 16:00 |
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Data Mindfulness: Making the Most of your Dissertation (RDS009) |
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16:00 – 17:00 |
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Data Mindfulness: Making the Most of your Dissertation (RDS009) |
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14 Nov |
09:30 – 12:30 |
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Introduction to Visualising Data in QGIS (RDS012) |
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10:00 – 10:50 |
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Exploring ProQuest Primary and Secondary Resources to Improve your Dissertation - Ali Nazari-Nouri, ProQuest |
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10:00 – 12:00 |
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Dissertation Fair Preview (Staff) |
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11:00 – 11:50 |
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Using primary sources to improve your dissertation - Dr Laura Blomvall, of Adam Matthew |
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13:30 – 16:30 |
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Dissertation Fair (Open) |
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13:10 – 14:00 |
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We Have Great Stuff - Rachel Hosker, Deputy Head of Special Collections, Archives Manager at The University of Edinburgh |
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13:15 – 13:45 |
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Fake News vs Real News: Discovering News Sources |
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14:10 – 15:00 |
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Sage Research Methods: What every researcher needs - Jordan Brooks, SAGE |
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15:10 – 16:00 |
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Gale Primary Sources for your Dissertation: Archives and Platform - Martin McCall and Carolyn Beckford from Gale |
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15 Nov |
11:00 – 12:00 |
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Library Academic Support Drop In for Divinity |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
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(Online) Managing the Literature in Systematic Reviews (UG,PG,Staff) |
(Online - IAD) Citing sources and creating bibliographies with Endnote
This session covers using Endnote to keep a database of literature sources and create reference lists easily in essays and other written work.
Time: 12:10 - 13:00
Location: Online (via Collaborate Ultra)
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Digital Primary Sources for Culture, Data and Society
The last decade has seen a huge growth in the availability of digital primary source and archive databases, and Edinburgh University Library’s collections have kept pace with this by subscribing to a wide range of digital primary source content.
Caroline Stirling will take you on a tour of tools and resources to discover the landscape of subscriptions digital primary source databases at the University of Edinburgh.
Christine Love-Rodgers will talk about how these resources are identified and trialled to make a business case for their purchase.
Finally, Martin McCall from Gale will introduce you to a new tool available to you from the Library, Gale Digital Scholar Lab, a cloud-based platform that enables students and researchers to access content and OCR data from Gale Primary Sources and analyse these archives with text and data mining tools.
Caroline Stirling is the Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology and Social and Political Science.
Christine Love-Rodgers is College Lead for Library Academic Support, CAHSS and Academic Support Librarian for Divinity.
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Digital Scholarship Centre, 6th Floor, Main Library
How to Reference and Avoid Plagiarism (Digital Skills)
This 30 min session looks at referencing. Topics covered include:
Time: 13:15 - 13:45
Location: King's Buildings
Working with Personal and Sensitive Data (Staff and Postgraduates)
Researchers today are pressured to share their research data and make it accessible to other researchers. But what if you have collected sensitive or confidential data?
For many researchers, the sensitivity of research data is one of the main barriers to data sharing. Fear of violating ethical or legal obligations, lack of knowledge about disclosure control and the time required to anonymise data to a suitable standard often prevent valuable datasets from seeing the light of day.
In this course, we introduce how to collect, share, store, and protect the sensitive data you may encounter as part of your work.
Time: 14:30 - 16:30
Location: Room G.10, Murchison House (King's Buildings)
Start Thinking About Dissertations and Projects (IAD)
Moving from essays and assignments to larger based project work such as dissertations can often feel like a step into the unknown. This workshop will help to clarify dissertation/project expectations and provide practical strategies that you can use to optimise your dissertation experience. Specifically it will cover:
• What does a dissertation/project look like?
• How do I choose a topic?
• How do I write a literature review?
• How do I bring everything together into a coherent thesis?
This session will not cover:
• Subject or discipline-specific advice
• English Language advice
Time: 17:15 - 18:45
Location: Room G.05, 50 George Square (Central Area)
Study Resources for Literature Reviews (Digital Skills)
iSkills Seminar. This seminar will help you to identify appropriate abstracting and indexing (or bibliographic) databases for topics you need to investigate. Bibliographic databases summarise the content of academic journals and conference proceedings for particular subjects, helping you quickly find what's been published on a topic you're investigating. They are one of the resources you need to produce a successful literature review. This seminar will cover search techniques and will also provide help on getting hold of what you want to read. The presentation and handout for this seminar are available from the link below.
The course materials for this seminar are available to download from our Documents' Catalogue: Study Resources for Literature Reviews course materials.
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Location: Main Library ML1.08
Get the Best From Your Library for Dissertations (IAD)
Do you want to know more about how the library can help you produce a high quality dissertation? What research materials are available? How to get help with referencing and organising your reading?
Join us for this online session and find out what research resources you can find through the library and what support and services are available to help you put together a great piece of work, whatever your subject.
This is an opportunity to ask questions you might feel like you ought to already know the answer to. It's never too late to learn more about what the library can do for you - we're here to help.
Time: 11:45 - 12:45
Location: Online (via Collaborate Ultra)
Data Mindfulness: Making the Most of your Dissertation (RDS009)
This course is specifically tailored for UG students starting to prepare their dissertation projects. It takes UG students through all the stages of their dissertation journey: from choosing their question to dealing with literature and data to writing up to preserving their data after submission. Unlike existing material for postgraduates and researchers, this course has been prepared – and will be delivered – by one of our PhD interns from the perspective of a student; and it places data management tips within the broader experience of conducting a UG dissertation.
Upon completion of this course, attendees will have learned:
Time: Session 1. 15:00 - 16:00 Register here Session 2 (repeat of Session 1) 16:00 - 17:00 Register here
Location: Main Library ML1.10
Exploring ProQuest Primary and Secondary Resources to Improve your Dissertation - Ali Nazari-Nouri, Proquest
Join Ali Nazari-Nouri, Training and Consulting Partner at ProQuest, to learn about the wide variety of primary and secondary sources that are available at the University of Edinburgh and how you could utilise these resources to explore and collate the necessary information for your dissertation.
Time: 10:10 - 11:00
Location: Main Library, ML1.09
Using Primary Sources to Improve Your Dissertation - Dr Laura Blomvall, Adam Matthew
Critical engagement with primary sources is an essential component of a successful dissertation in arts and humanities. As a student at Edinburgh you have access to films, diaries, theatre records, historical newspapers and government files from archives around the world through Adam Matthew Digital primary source collections, covering periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.
Dr Laura Blomvall, Product Specialist in the Outreach team of Adam Matthew, will talk you through Edinburgh’s collections, from Shakespeare’s Globe Archive to Service Newspapers of World War Two, from Foreign Office Files for China to Literary Print Culture, from Mass Observation Online to Eighteenth-Century Journals. She will give you tips on how to navigate archival material online and how to use primary sources to enrich, enliven and expand your dissertation.
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Location: Main Library, ML1.09
We Have Great Stuff - Rachel Hosker, Deputy Head of Special Collections, Archives Manager at The University of Edinburgh
The University holds a vast range of rare/unique material including manuscripts and archives, rare books, photographs, printed and handwritten music, theses and microforms. Hear more about the University's Collections and the interesting ways they have been used.
Centre for Research Collections
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Location: Main Library, ML1.09
Fake News vs Real News: Discovering News Sources (Digital Skills)
Time: 13:15 - 13:45
Location: Main Library, ML1.10
Sage Research Methods: What every researcher needs - Jordan Brooks, SAGE
SAGE Research Methods supports research at all levels by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process. Resources range from books and reference, to case studies, academic video, and exclusive research tools. Join Jordan Brooks from SAGE Publishing to find out more about how you can make the most of this resource for your own research activities!
Time: 14:10 - 15:00
Location: Main Library, ML1.09
Gale Primary Sources for your Dissertation: Archives and Platform - Martin McCall and Carolyn Beckford from Gale
The University of Edinburgh has access to a fantastic collection of primary source archives from Gale, covering centuries of content. Including, historical newspapers from the British Library, as well as The Times, The Economist and The Daily Mail, literature drama and plays from the 18th and 19th centuries and thematic collections such as the Archives of Sexuality and Gender.
As part of Dissertation Week at the Library, Martin McCall and Carolyn Beckford from Gale, will introduce a number of these archives as well the Gale Primary Sources platform, where these archives are cross-searchable. The Gale Primary Sources platform greatly enhances the research experience for students and researchers by broadening their discovery of primary source documents through the use of multiple search options and powerful research tools, such as:
Topic Finder – which allows users to explore the frequency of one or more search terms in the content over time, which can suggest the changing importance of particular concepts over time
Term Frequency – where users can discover related terms that commonly occur in relation to their own search term, which helps uncover hidden connections, or can be a helpful starting point in the early stages of research.
Time: 15:10 - 16:00
Location: Main Library, ML1.09
Library Academic Support Drop In
Time: 11:00 -12:00
Location: School of Divinity Foyer
Registration: coming soon
Managing the Literature in Systematic Reviews (UG,PG,Staff)
Systematic reviews require comprehensive searches and rigorous management of publications screened and included in analysis. This session introduces practical and robust approaches and tools for searching and managing the literature in systematic reviews. Before you register, it's worth checking that you are really needing to do a systematic review - see for example "What is a systematic review?" from EPPICentre: https://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=67
Time: 12:00 -13:00
Location: Online (via Collaborate Ultra)
Monday 11 Nov
(Online - IAD) Citing sources and creating bibliographies with Endnote
This session covers using Endnote to keep a database of literature sources and create reference lists easily in essays and other written work.
Time: 12:10 - 13:00
Location: Online (via Collaborate Ultra)
Wednesday 13th Nov
Get the Best From Your Library for Dissertations
Do you want to know more about how the library can help you produce a high quality dissertation? What research materials are available? How to get help with referencing and organising your reading?
Join us for this online session and find out what research resources you can find through the library and what support and services are available to help you put together a great piece of work, whatever your subject.
This is an opportunity to ask questions you might feel like you ought to already know the answer to. It's never too late to learn more about what the library can do for you - we're here to help.
Time: 11:45 - 12:45
Location: Online (via Collaborate Ultra)
More information aimed at Online learners:
Resources to support your learning http://edinburgh-uk.libguides.com/micromasters
Library Services
Friday 15th Nov
Managing the Literature in Systematic Reviews (UG,PG,Staff)
Systematic reviews require comprehensive searches and rigorous management of publications screened and included in analysis. This session introduces practical and robust approaches and tools for searching and managing the literature in systematic reviews. Before you register, it's worth checking that you are really needing to do a systematic review - see for example "What is a systematic review?" from EPPICentre: https://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=67
Time: 12:00 -13:00
Location: Online (via Collaborate Ultra)
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