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Library Research Support: Training & Events for Researchers

Library Research Support: Training and Events

The University of Plymouth Library's researcher training programme, regular drop-in sessions and occasional hosted events series, cover a wide variety of topics from digital skills, literature searching and reference management to open publication strategies, impact metrics and data management.  

Sessions are delivered by library staff to researchers at any stage of study or career including tailored sessions for academic staff or your research group; regular sessions in the Doctoral College's Researcher Development Programme plus a one-to-one consultation service for researchers and research leads.

Upcoming Events

Introduction to Open Access Publishing (3 February)

This session introduces the Open Access publishing landscape and how funder directives are affecting global scholarly communication practice. We will look at Open Access publishing options available to authors at Plymouth including additional tools and evaluative criteria for identifing potential publication venues and avoiding predatory publishers. Please note this is not a session on 'how' to get published (see the RDP DLE site for 'getting published' session recordings). (For PGRs)

bibliometrics and SciVal consultation service link

Bibliometrics & SciVal Consultation Service

Interested in using metrics for strategic decision making or benchmaking? Questions about your own publication metrics and citation impact?  Contact our Open Research Specialist for 1:1 advice or tailored reports. 

Library Researcher Training Pathways

Thesis essentials

Open research

Metrics for impact

Publication

SciVal publication metrics consultations

The library offers a consultation service for researchers advising on use of bibliometrics, including SciVal, to showcase areas of research power or in support of strategic priorities, in accordance with the principles of Responsible Metrics.  We can provide regular and custom statistics and reports for your school or research group (example reports and infographics).

We also regularly run two workshops on SciVal through our training pathways.

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