Need to brush up on your IT and information skills for research? Why not come to a Research Skills Toolkit? These free 2-hour workshops introduce key software and online tools for your research, hone your searching and information skills and introduce you to your MPLS subject specialists. Topics on offer include:

Finding articles, papers, conferences and theses Keeping up to date and current awareness Using Endnote to manage your references Manipulating images using Gimp Managing your thesis with word Analyzising data with Excel pivot tables Podcasting with Audacity Plagiarism and how to avoid it Your thesis, copyright and ORA> Finding highly cited journals and measuring research impact