Research Skills Toolkit for Humanities
www.skillstoolkit.ox.ac.uk/resource/869
A free hands-on workshop for graduate researchers in Humanities. An opportunity for you to learn about a broad range of resources in one time-efficient session.
The 2-hour session focuses on the skills and tools that will streamline your academic work. You will encounter a variety of IT and Library tools and services to support your research. Relevant software, online services and libraries techniques are on offer for you to try out.
You will also meet with subject specialists for help and guidance on further training.
Topics are likely to include:
* EndNote
* Corpora – why would I use a corpus?
* GIMP – image editing
* Word – for your thesis
* Excel – organise & analyse data using pivot tables
* Excel – sort & filter data
* Audacity for recording audio
* LinkedIn Learning – IT video courses
* Your thesis, copyright and ORA
* Keeping up to date using email alerts
* Keeping up to date using RSS feeds
* Tracking Citations – Arts and Humanities Citation Index
* Advanced searching on SOLO
* Key bibliographical tools
Date: 24 January 2020, 10:00 (Friday, 1st week, Hilary 2020)
Venue: 11-13 Banbury Road
Venue Details: Evenlode Room
Speaker: Training Session
Booking required?: Required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Sadie Slater