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Organising your data
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A quick guide to organising your data, covering file naming and folder structure.
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Matt Mahon
Supervising systematic reviews
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Lecture recording and slides from 'Supervising systematic reviews'.
This lecture introduces systematic reviews as a literature type and methodology, discusses protocols as a method of scoping a review and defining the feasibility of a review. The lecture then moves to search techniques and resources students should utilise for their reviews, and reporting standards to expect in a write-up. Further resources and self-help materials are highlighted.
Part of Systematic Review collection of resources (https://edshare.gla.ac.uk/451/).
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Systematic review workshop and journal club: recording, slides, exercises and handouts
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Slides and materials from the systematic review workshop and journal club presented to Doctorate in Clinical Psycholgy trainees in academic year 2022-23. Video recording from academic year 2021-22.
The combined learning objectives of the day are to:
- Be able to structure a search strategy using a question formulation framework
- Understand the principles of Boolean logic and search syntax in relation to a systematic review search strategy
- Be able to run a search using subject headings and free text terms in the PsycINFO database
- Know where to find and how to follow PRISMA reporting guidelines for systematic reviews
- Be able to apply your knowledge of reporting guidelines and search strategy formulation to critically appraise a systematic review
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How to keep a laboratory notebook
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The following is general guidance on how to keep a paper-based laboratory (lab) notebook.
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Finding E books online
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This short guide will help you find out what the options are if you are trying to access an e book that the Library doesn't own.
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Morag Greig
Level 2 Film and TV online resources
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This is a short handout giving the details of various useful websites for film and tv archives and related resources.
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Morag Greig
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Finding eBooks
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How to search for eBooks using Library Search, the main Library search tool. It explains how the book search works on Library Search (what is searched). Provides guidance on searching for specific books; searching for books on a topic and searching for books by specific authors. Explains what information is included in book search results, including summaries and tables of contents. Provides guidance on how to create a book list in a reference format (e.g. Harvard).
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Sage Business Cases - guide for staff - accessing Teaching Notes
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This is a guide for teaching staff at the University of Glasgow. The guide has short instructions on how to create a profile in order to access Teaching Notes on the Sage Business Cases database.
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Searching - keywords and controlled vocabulary
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This is an introduction to using keywords and controlled vocabulary for searching. It gives advice on how to generate relevant keywords - using your existing knowledge; from key textbooks, handbooks and research monographs and from published journal articles. It includes screenshots as examples. The guide introduces controlled vocabulary and its advantages in searching.
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Searching - tips for effective searching
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A guide to searching. Explains the main search operators to use for effective searching: Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT; phrase and proximity searching; truncation and wildcards. Introduces field searching and provides screenshots as examples. Gives advice on how to build a search using operators and keywords with examples. Provides advice on using citation networks (reference lists and citing literature) to find relevant material.
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Apologia for old books: or, why look at the originals when there are perfectly good modern editions and so much has been digitised?
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A video discussing the value of in-person viewing and handling of early editions of books/texts to complement modern critical editions and digitised early editions
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Robert MacLean
Books and manuscripts in focus: MS Hunter 217 - Cassiodorus's Tripartite History of the Church
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The video looks at MS Hunter 217, Cassiodorus's Tripartite History of the Church, written in Germany in the late 12th century, as a case study. The video focusses not on the text but on the material and paratextual features of the manuscript itself and what these can tell us about earlier medieval book production and culture
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Robert MacLean
Books and manuscripts in focus: Sp Coll Ferguson Ag-y.21 - Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum
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This video looks at this printed, incunable, copy of De proprietatibus rerum as a case study. Rather than focussing on the text, the video discusses what the books material and paratextual features can tell us about late medieval book production and culture
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Robert MacLean
Early modern European paper and papermaking
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A video discussing paper manufacture in late medieval and early modern Europe, and the material features of handmade paper useful in bibliography
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Robert MacLean
Hand-press books: editions, impressions, issues, and states
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This video examines the definition of the bibliographical term edition, impression, issue and state, with the use of real life examples to illustrate
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Robert MacLean
Hand-press books: formats, signatures, and collational formulae
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A video discussing what the terms format, signature, and collational formula mean in bibliography, and how material and paratextual features of early-printed books can be used to determine a book's format and collation
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Robert MacLean
Hand-press printed books
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A video discussing how early modern European books were printed, touching on the technology, the terminology, and the printed books themselves
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Robert MacLean
Looking at early-printed books
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A video discussing what to look for and think about when looking at an early-printed book for the first time. Based on an exercise conceived by Sarah Werner in "Studying early printed books 1450-1800: a practical guide"
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Robert MacLean