Documentation for 'Word: Creating a dissertation or thesis' course run by IT Services. Files available include the main course notes, the University thesis preparation guidelines, a list of thesis styles and two Word templates.

An ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) identifier allows you to be uniquely identified and connected with your research activities. An ORCID or other research identifier will follow you throughout your career and can be linked to your outputs, research funding and other research activities. This webinar recording covered: - The ORCID Create and Connect functionality to link an ORCID to your Enlighten profile - An introduction to other research identifiers to enhance your research profile

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Slides and exercises from Developing Rigour and Validity in Literature Searches at Doctoral Level. This is a workshop delivered as part of the College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences Research Training Programme. Please note that downloading the materials does not qualify you for the class credits. The workshop learning outcomes are that by the end of the workshop you should… - Understand the various literature review methods available and their limitations - Be able to structure a search strategy for effective literature searching - Utilise advanced search techniques to find relevant information in your research field - Use basic text mining techniques to improve the specificity or sensitivity of searches - Use data to identify prominent journals, papers and authors within your field.

This resource provides guidance on searching for grey literature sources and a method of recording the grey literature search process for reproducibility.

There are qualitative and quantitative factors to consider when choosing a journal in which to publish your latest research. This webinar will unpick some of the quantitative factors in your decision-making process by exploring a range of journal indicators and how journal impact can be measured beyond citations. This webinar recording covered: - Journal-level indicators such as the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP), and their strengths and limitations - Identifying top-tier journals in a subject area and comparing journals on a range of indicators - How journals fare on rejection rates, the percent of non-cited material in a journal and the percentage of review articles - Comparing journals on citations in patents and policy documents

Who is working in your discipline and would they make a good collaborator? Do you know who is citing your work? This webinar will help you investigate some of the quantitative and qualitative factors behind collaboration, whether those be existing or potential new collaborators, in academia or beyond. This webinar recording covered: - On an individual, research group and university level, evaluating existing collaborators using quantitative indicators - Finding potential collaborators in academia, industry and government sectors - Discover where other universities and research teams in your discipline are collaborating

Research funders are increasingly looking for the economic and societal impact of research, but how do you demonstrate this impact in a grant application? Using several tools, this webinar will help you track interest in your work beyond bibliometric citations. This webinar recording covered: - Exploring an individual’s and research group’s societal impact using Altmetric Explorer and SciVal data

A guidance document on how to connect your ORCID to your University profile, importing publications from ORCID to Enlighten and how to export publications from Enlighten to ORCID.

Presented at the University of Glasgow Research Week 2018. Find out about the benefits of registering for an ORCiD digital identifier, register for an ORCiD identifier and link your Enlighten record to continually and automatically populate your ORCiD profile.

This guide explains the different resources available for identifying journal articles on a topic.

This guide will explain what sources are available for finding reviews of recently published books and how to use them.

This guide explains how to use subject databases in the Arts and Humanities. It explains how to search effectively and how to save your results.

A brief guide explaining how to upload a single file to the University of Glasgow's EdShare repository.

A short presentation detailing what EdShare is, how it works and how it can help staff and students at the University of Glasgow

This guide explains how to find out whether an individual piece of music is found within the complete works of a composer or within a thematic collected edition.

This guide explains how to find audio-visual resources in the Library. This includes CDs, DVDs, streamed music and film.

This is a list of important reference books for students in English Literature.

Are you confused by citation counts or are you more attentive to your Altmetric score? This webinar recording will provide you with a foundational understanding of what biblio- and altmetrics are and how you might use them to track the impact of your research, all framed by the University of Glasgow Responsible Metrics Statement. This webinar recording covers: - Common article and author research indicators, how they are calculated and where to find them - The strengths and limitations of commonly used research indicators - Some do’s and don’ts and how to combine metrics - Some scenarios on how you might use research indicators in your discipline

How to find cases using Westlaw or Lexis+, and finding law reports in print in the library

Guide to using Endnote Online for Education students

Guide for education studies on how to find information for your dissertation or thesis

European Human Rights Law - Guide to sources

Guide to using the newspaper database, Nexis and broadcast media database BOB.

guides for sources for International Commercial Arbitration

Guide to using Library Search for students studying online

Guide to Sage Research Methods Core Database

Using Reading Lists @ Glasgow

Presented by Charlotte Perry-Houts at the University of Glasgow Research Week 2018. Find out what altmetrics are; how Altmetric track online attention and all about the Altmetric donut and Attention Score. Discuss the advantages around alternative metrics and how to interpret the data.

Presented by Denis Reidy at the University of Glasgow Research Week 2018. Learn how to use SciVal to analyse and gain insights into your research and knowledge exchange activities globally. Find out how SciVal enables you to visualise research performance, benchmark relative to peers, develop collaborative partnerships and analyse research trends.

Slides from the SciVal Advisor UK workshops held on 19 March 2019 at Heriot-Watt University. Slides cover REF support - how to use SciVal to support ongoing preparations for REF 2021, and SciVal for Researchers - helping Early Career Researchers and Principle Investigators make effective and responsible use of SciVal and Scopus.

Presented by Jane Wright at the University of Glasgow Research Week 2018. Meet Jane Wright, Commissioning Editor at The Conversation, to learn about pitching an idea for publication; optimal timing to make the most of press coverage and links to your research; information on reach and republication and more on the collaborative process between researcher and journalist.