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Research Skills Sessions (October)

®   Research Data Management: Consultation - October 3

®   Advanced Publication Metrics - October 5

®   Benchmarking researcher performance using InCites and Essential Science Indicators - October 5

®   Endnote Essentials - October 5

®   Accessing Australian Bureau of Statistics Data Assets Using TableBuilder - October 10

®   Australian Bureau of Statistics Data Assets Update and Q&A - October 10

®   Alternative Metrics and Other Measures of Research Impact - October 12

®   Copyright Considerations for Researchers - October 17

®   Wikipedia Editing: Open Access Week - October 23

®   Scholarly Communications Community of Practice: What You Need to Know Before Graduating - October 25   

®   Hacky Hour   - Every Wednesday   

®   QCIF Training   - Various dates   

 

>   Session information

 

Research Data Management Consultation

Drop in to ask questions and get help on planning, sharing, storing, organising or publishing for your project’s research data.

Register here for Tuesday 3 October, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, online

Advanced Publication Metrics

This session will discuss how to undertake more advanced publication metrics analysis using publication metrics analysis tools, SciVal and InCites. It will cover:

  • Using the Benchmarking, Collaboration and Trends modules of SciVal, to analyse authors, institutions, publication sets and research areas;
  • Using reporting in SciVal; and
  • Analysing Research Areas and reporting functionality in InCites.

Register here for Thursday 5 October, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, online

Benchmarking researcher performance using InCites and Essential Science Indicators

In this session, Clarivate will be sharing knowledge about best practices using the different facets of Web of Science and InCites data.

The following topics will be covered:

  • Overview of InCites and Essential Science Indicators
  • Commonly used metrics and indicators for measuring performance and impact of researchers beyond just the H-Index
  • Understand the basic methodology of how the Highly Cited Researcher is awarded
  • Build and maintain your own Web of Science Researcher Profiles
  • Identifying potential collaborators for your research

Register here for Thursday 5 October, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm, KG R-306 and online

EndNote Essentials

An interactive tutorial with exercises in the basic applications of EndNote needed to get started. Learn how to:

  • Navigate the user interface to access basic functions
  • creating a library and enter references
  • importing references from search tools and databases
  • organising references in groups
  • importing full-text PDFs and use the PDF viewer to mark up
  • creating citations and bibliographies in Word documents
  • safely editing citations and documents

Register here for Thursday, 5 October, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Online

Go here under ’Resources’ for anytime self-directed learning with session recordings and exercises

Go here for the EndNote Instructions Guide

Accessing Australian Bureau of Statistics data using TableBuilder

This workshop will provide you with practical, hands-on training in how to use TableBuilder. TableBuilder is a flexible way to access detailed data where you can:

  • build your own tables, graphs and maps, based on underlying Microdata
  • select the data items of your choice for cross-tabulation
  • display counts, percentages and relative standard errors in your table
  • calculate means, medians and quantiles for continuous variables such as income
  • download tables as CSV, Excel and SDMX files, and graphs and thematic maps, including PDF and KMZ
  • create, save and share customised geographic areas and recodes with other registered users
  • see Topics for a full list of datasets and reference periods in TableBuilder.

Register here for Tuesday 10 October, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm, in KG B320, Kelvin Grove Campus, in-person only

Australian Bureau of Statistics data assets update and Q&A

This information session will includes a presentation followed by a general Q&A:

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

  • General update on ABS resources, tools and data assets
  • PLIDA (Personal-Level Integrated Data Asset) - the new name for what used to be known as MADIP (Multi-Agency Data Integration Project). This data asset combines information on health, education, government payments, income and taxation, employment, and population demographics (including the Census) over time.
  • BLADE (Business Longitudinal Analysis Data Environment) - an economic data tool combining tax, trade and intellectual property data with information from ABS surveys to provide a better understanding of the Australian economy and businesses performance over time.

2:00 pm – 2.30 pm

  • Join a Q&A session on the presentation topics as well as: additional data assets managed by the ABS, and on access to Microdata using tools such as TableBuilder, MicrodataDownload and DataLab.

Register here for Tuesday 10 October, 1:00 – 2:30 pm, in B320 in person, or online

Alternative Metrics and Other Measures of Research Impact

In this hands-on, online session, you will discover how to use find alternative metrics and other evidence of the reach of your research.

We will cover how to:

  • Search in Altmetric Explorer to find media, social media, and other forms of attention to your research outputs, and how to create and export reports and data;
  • Search Policy Commons to find mentions of your research in policy and other grey literature;
  • Search Overton to find mentions of your research in policy and other grey literature; and
  • Using Google Advanced search to find other evidence.

Register here for Thursday 12 October, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Online

Copyright considerations for researchers

Understand how to use copyrighted material legally, and how to protect your own copyright. This session will examine copyright, publishing agreements, Creative Commons licensing, strategies on retaining your rights, and more.

Come along to have your questions about copyright and your research demystified.

Register here Tuesday 17 October, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm, online

Copyright Consultation

An informal drop-in session and ask the experts any of your copyright questions related to your research, teaching and learning, or professional work. Bring your questions on:

  • protecting your rights and publishing agreements
  • using others’ copyright material in your work or study
  • creative Commons licensing
  • using images in your thesis
  • developing Open Educational Resources

Register here for Wednesday, 18 October, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, online

Wikipedia Editing: Open Access Week

Engage with your research area in Wikipedia. Practise writing for a general audience. Contribute to open knowledge by checking, verifying or adding information in your area of research or interest.

Register here for Monday, 23 October, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, online

Scholarly Communications Community of Practice

An short open forum for HDR students, researchers and research support advisers to listen, share, ask or discuss on key issues and topics in academic publishing and scholarly communications.

This month’s topic: What you need to know before graduating

Register here for Wednesday, 25 October, 2:00 – 2:30 pm, online

Hacky Hour

Meet-up with researchers, HDRs, practitioners and support staff from Office of eResearch, Office for Scholarly Communication and the Digital Observatory to ask questions, get advice on problems, share knowledge or chat!

  • Experts are on hand to advise on problems related to coding, data analytics, digital tools, or open research.
  • Bring your questions on data wrangling, programming with R, Python, SQL, Data management planning, version control, statistics, data visualisation, data sharing, and web APIs.

Register here for sessions run weekly, Wednesdays, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, online

QCIF Training

Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) provides a large suite of data science, data management, programming and statistical analysis related training. QUT is a member of QCIF so training is free. Upcoming training sessions are:

Why publish with CUP and Surviving Peer Review: Webinar 31 Jan 2024

Kane Kang of Cambridge University Press will be speaking on: Why publish with CUP and Surviving Peer Review.

Participating in this webinar is free of charge, but registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive an email containing information on how to access the Zoom meeting 1 week/1 day/1 hour prior to the webinar.

Date: Wednesday, 31st January 2024
Time: 9am (CN/SG/MY);
11am (Per/Bris);
11:30am (Adel);
12pm (Mel/Syd);
Language: English

Click here to register

If you are interested but can’t attend, you can still sign up as a recording will be sent to all those who have registered.

QUT Library Research Skills training (Jan - Feb)

®   EndNote Essentials  - Literature organisation, automated referencing formatting, file management.

®   Hacky Hour  - Research data skills help. Now every THURSDAY.

®   Introduction to Systematic Reviews

®    Copyright Consultation

®   Research Data Management: Planning

®   Research Data Management: Storage   

®   Research Data Management: Preservation and Publication

®   Secondary Datasets for Research: Education Datasets

®   Scholarly Communications Community of Practice - Feb: Support for Publishing Open Access.

®   Research Data Management: Consultation

®   QCIF Training  - Data management, analysis, programming, statistics, and visualisation.

>   Session information

EndNote Essentials

An interactive tutorial with exercises in the basic applications of EndNote needed to get started. Learn how to:

  • navigate the user interface to access basic functions
  • creating a library and enter references
  • importing references from search tools and databases
  • organising references in groups
  • importing full-text PDFs and use the PDF viewer to mark up
  • creating citations and bibliographies in Word documents
  • safely editing citations and documents.

Register here for Tuesday, 23 January, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, or Monday, 19 February, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, online

Go here under ’Resources’ for anytime self-directed learning with session recordings and exercises

Go here for the EndNote Instructions Guide

Hacky Hour

Meet-up with researchers, HDRs, practitioners and support staff from Office of eResearch, Office for Scholarly Communication and the Digital Observatory to ask questions, get advice on problems, share knowledge or chat!

  • Experts are on hand to advise on problems related to coding, data analytics, digital tools, or open research.
  • Bring your questions on data wrangling, programming with R, Python, SQL, Data management planning, version control, statistics, data visualisation, data sharing, and web APIs.

Register here for sessions run weekly, Thursdays, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, online

Introduction to Systematic Reviews

This session is about the systematic review and how they are done. Learn about this appraisal and synthesis of primary research papers on a focused research question, and its documented methodology in both the search strategy and the selection of studies.

This session focuses on the health context. Researchers from all disciplines are welcome.

Register here for Wednesday 7 February, 10:00 am – 11:30 am, online

Go here under ‘Resources’ for self-directed learning with workshop recordings and learning resources.

Go here and here for the Systematic Reviews and the Scoping Reviews self-help guides.

Copyright Consultation

A drop-in session to ask the expert any of your copyright questions related to your research, teaching and learning, or professional work. Bring your questions on:

  • protecting your rights and publishing agreements
  • using others’ copyright material in your work or study
  • creative Commons licensing
  • using images in your thesis
  • developing Open Educational Resources.

Register here for Wednesday, 7 February, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, online

Research Data Management: Planning

An interactive session for research students and staff to introduce Research Data Management and to help you plan for managing research files, information, and data. It will cover:

  • General, legal, ethical and policy responsibilities at QUT
  • Where and how to get Research Data Management support at QUT
  • How to complete the Research Data Management and Primary Materials Checklist
  • How to create a data management plan using the Data Management Planning Tool.

Register here for Tuesday, 13 February, 2:00 – 2:45 pm, online

Research Data Management – Storage

An interactive session for research students and staff to help you identify and select the most suitable digital research data storage options, including:

  • Recommended storage options for research data, including sensitive research data
  • How to request access to QUT’s Research Data Storage Service
  • Managing research data with different purposes and at different stages
  • Using file naming conventions and folder directory structures.

Register here for Wednesday 14 February, 11:00 - 11:45 am, online

Research Data Management: Preservation and Publication

An interactive session for research students and staff to help you increase the impact of your research by publishing and sharing your research data in repositories such as QUT Research Data Finder, and preserve your research data files using QUT-supported archival data storage. It will cover:

·         Publishing, licensing, copyright and DOIs for data

·         QUT Research Data Finder

·         How to create a research data record in Research Data Finder

·         Understanding preservation responsibilities, storage options, and formats.

Register here for Wednesday, 21 February, 11:00 - 11:45 am, online

Secondary Datasets for Research: Education Datasets

This session introduces you to secondary datasets, their benefits, and how to find and use them, with a focus datasets most relevant to the Education discipline.

This session will be of interest to researchers in the discipline area of Education, and deal with a variety of considerations to be mindful of when locating and using secondary datasets for research.

Register here for Thursday 22 February, 10:00 – 11:00 am, online

Go here for anytime self-directed learning resources

Scholarly Communications Community of Practice

A short open forum for HDR students, researchers and research support advisers to listen, share, ask or discuss on key issues and topics in academic publishing and scholarly communications.

This month: Support for Publishing Open Access.

Hear an update and ask questions about how to use Read and Publish Agreements, the latest developments in Read and Publish Agreements, and how to apply for Article Publication Cost support.

Register here for Wednesday 28 February, 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Online

Go here for anytime current self help guidance and information

Research Data Management Consultation

Catch up with the Research Data Librarian to:

  • ask questions on planning, sharing, storing, organising or publishing your project’s research data
  • seek advice and assistance for drafting your Research Data Management Plan
  • share what you are working on from your laptop or computer for input.

Register here for Wednesday, 28 February, 10:00 – 11:00 am, online

QCIF Training

Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) provides a large suite of data science, data management, programming and statistical analysis related training. QUT is a member of QCIF so training is free.

Upcoming training sessions are:

Love Data Week

Research Data Management: Preservation and Publication

An interactive session for research students and staff to help you increase the impact of your research by publishing and sharing your research data in repositories such as QUT Research Data Finder, and preserve your research data files using QUT-supported archival data storage. It will cover:

·         Publishing, licensing, copyright and DOIs for data

·         QUT Research Data Finder

·         How to create a research data record in Research Data Finder

·         Understanding preservation responsibilities, storage options, and formats.

Register here for Wednesday, 21 February, 11:00 - 11:45 am, online

Secondary Datasets for Research: Education Datasets

This session introduces you to secondary datasets, their benefits, and how to find and use them, with a focus datasets most relevant to the Education discipline.

This session will be of interest to researchers in the discipline area of Education, and deal with a variety of considerations to be mindful of when locating and using secondary datasets for research.

Register here for Thursday 22 February, 10:00 – 11:00 am, online

Research Data Management Consultation

Catch up with the Research Data Librarian to:

  • ask questions on planning, sharing, storing, organising or publishing your project’s research data
  • seek advice and assistance for drafting your Research Data Management Plan
  • share what you are working on from your laptop or computer for input.

Register here for Wednesday, 28 February, 10:00 – 11:00 am, online

Hacky Hour

Meet-up with researchers, HDRs, practitioners and support staff from Office of eResearch, Office for Scholarly Communication and the Digital Observatory to ask questions, get advice on problems, share knowledge or chat!

  • Experts are on hand to advise on problems related to coding, data analytics, digital tools, or open research.
  • Bring your questions on data wrangling, programming with R, Python, SQL, Data management planning, version control, statistics, data visualisation, data sharing, and web APIs.

Register here for sessions run weekly, Thursdays, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, online

QUT Library Research Skills training

®   HDR Meet Greet and Eat  - Special event!

®   Wikipedia Editing: International Women’s Week

®   Where to Publish and What to Consider

®   Hacky Hour - Data skills help. Every Thursday.

®   EndNote Essentials  - On campus in person

®   Research Data Management Consultation

®    Demystifying AI for Research - New! AI for data skills

®   Copyright considerations for Researchers

®   Scholarly Communications Community of Practice - March topic: Support for writing

®   QCIF Training  - Data analysis, programming, statistics, and visualisation.

>   Session information

HDR Meet, Greet and Eat

This event provides the wonderful opportunity to meet fellow HDRs face to face in a relaxed setting. Mix with peers about experiences, projects or ideas and talk to Faculty Librarians about services, resources, and support. Enjoy provided beverages and bites. Be in the running for door prizes and pick up some great giveaways.

Register here for Thursday, 14 March, 10:00 - 11:30 am, the Gibson Room, Z-1064, Z Block, Gardens Point, on campus

Wikipedia Editing Workshop: International women's day

Women make up less than 20% of Wikipedia contributors and only about 17.7% of biographical articles are about women.

Join us to edit Wikipedia to engage with your area of research area, practise writing for a general audience, and contribute to open knowledge, by checking, verifying or improving articles about women, or any information of interest.

Register here for Monday, 4 March, 1:00 - 2:30 pm, online

Where to Publish and what to consider

An overview of where to publish and the factors you should consider for authorship, journal selection, peer review, publishing models and publishing agreements. Topics covered include:

  • Establishing your identity as an author and a peer reviewer​
  • Strategies for choosing when and in what journal to publish​
  • Demonstrating high level of authorship integrity ​
  • Promoting your work to ensure it is noticed, read and cited
  • Publishing from your thesis

Register here for Tuesday, 5 March, 2:00 - 3:30 pm, online

Hacky Hour

A data skills meet-up with fellow research students, practitioners and key support staff to ask questions, get advice on a problem, share knowledge, chat and get help.

  • Experts are on hand to advise on problems related to coding, data analytics, digital tools, or open research.
  • Bring your questions on data wrangling, programming with R, Python, SQL, Data management planning, version control, statistics, data visualisation, data sharing, and web APIs.

Register here for sessions run weekly, Thursdays, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, online

EndNote Essentials (F2F)

An interactive tutorial with exercises in the basic applications of EndNote needed to get started. Learn how to:

  • navigate the user interface to access basic functions
  • creating a library and enter references
  • importing references from search tools and databases
  • organising references in groups
  • importing full-text PDFs and use the PDF viewer to mark up
  • creating citations and bibliographies in Word documents
  • safely editing citations and documents.

Register here for Tuesday, 12 March, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, V401, V Block, the Library, Gardens Point, on campus

Go here under ’Resources’ for anytime self-directed learning with session recordings and exercises

Go here for the EndNote Instructions Guide

Research Data Management Consultation

Catch up with the Research Data Librarian to:

  • ask questions on planning, sharing, storing, organising or publishing your project’s research data
  • seek advice and assistance for drafting your Research Data Management Plan
  • share what you are working on from your laptop or computer for input.

Register here for Wednesday, 20 March, 10:00 – 11:00 am, online

Demystifying AI for Research

A concise exploration of the essentials of Generative AI for research data skills.

This session is an invaluable introduction for researchers keen to understand and apply AI in their domains. It covers AI integration, ethical considerations, and legal implications. It will highlight practical 'no-code' AI applications, offering an accessible pathway for researchers to leverage AI in their work. Attendees will learn about AI's transformative potential in research methodologies while ensuring ethical and effective use.

Register here for Monday, 25 March, 2:003:30 pm, online

Copyright considerations for researchers

Understand how to use copyrighted material legally, and how to protect your own copyright. This session will examine copyright, publishing agreements, Creative Commons licensing, strategies on retaining your rights, and more.

Come along to have your questions about copyright and your research demystified.

Register here for Tuesday, 26 March, 10:00 - 11:00 am, online

Scholarly Communications Community of Practice

An short open forum for HDR students, researchers and research support advisers to listen, share, ask or discuss on key issues and topics in academic publishing and scholarly communications.

This month’s topic: Support for writing and academic communication

Register here for Wednesday, 27 March, 2 – 2:30 pm, online

QCIF Training

Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) provides a large suite of data science, data management, programming and statistical analysis related training. QUT is a member of QCIF so training is free.

Upcoming training sessions are:

MS Word Formatting Workshop (offered by QRSnet)

When:

Friday, 5 April 2024 - 2:00PM to 3:30PM (online)

Description:

Are you using MS Word to write your thesis report or your technical paper?

Do you know that MS Word has features that can automate some formatting requirements you must follow?

If not yet, then this workshop is for you. Here, we will have hands-on activities using features of MS Word to simplify formatting tasks like generating tables of contents, formatted reference lists, cross-referencing, and other features that may be useful for writing a research report.

Conceptualising and writing a paper is already tricky — through this workshop, we hope that formatting your paper will be one less research element you must worry about.

* Please have your laptop ready for hands-on experience.

Facilitator: Celina Sarmiento, PhD Scholar, Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice

REGISTER HERE : https://unihub.qut.edu.au/students/events/detail/5868263

Additional Covidence Training

  • There is Covidence 101: Getting Started session coming up on - Tuesday, April 30, 01:00 pm AEST - register hereThis is open to everyone who has a Covidence subscription.  Join Covidence webinar 101

  • An introduction to data extraction with Covidence - Wednesday April 24, 2024, 3-4pm (BST). Click here to register.

  • 🚀 Step 1: Setting up the review in Covidence - Click here to watch a recent recording. 
  • 🤔 Step 2: Screening in Covidence:  A beginners Guide - Click here to watch a recent recording. 
  • 📚 Step 3: Full text retrieval in Covidence Click here to watch a recent recording. 
  • 📂 Step 4: Extracting data and assessing quality (Extraction 1) - TBC
    • Extracting data and assessing quality (Extraction 2) - Click here to watch a recent recording.
  • ⬇️ Step 5: Exporting data (Extraction 1) in Covidence - Click here to watch a recent recording.
    • Exporting data (Extraction 2) in Covidence - TBC                   
  • 📊 Step 6: PRISMA Reporting and Covidence - Click here to watch a recent recording. 
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