A guide to appraising and selecting data for long-term deposit

Digital scan of: Sp Coll Mu55-f.17 https://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b1488645 This item was digitised as part of the ‘Perspectives on the Stirling Maxwell Collection’: a learning resource aiming to inspire new perspectives on material culture that is associated with history of slavery. It builds on the work of the History of Slavery Steering Group which has mentioned the Stirling Maxwell collection as one of the ways the University profited from slavery in the Caribbean. The work is intended as a contribution to ‘Decolonising the Curriculum’ initiatives that provide new insights into Scotland’s place in the world and supports the aims of the ‘Understanding Racism: Transforming University Cultures’ report. https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/collections/perspectivesonthestirlingmaxwellcollection/

Digital scan of: Author: Maier, Michael. Title: Atalanta fugiens, hoc est, emblemata nova de secretis naturae chymica Alternate title: Emblemata nova Shelf mark: Sp Coll Ferguson Ar-f.16 Full details at https://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b1757159 This item was digitised as part of the ‘Perspectives on the Stirling Maxwell Collection’: a learning resource aiming to inspire new perspectives on material culture that is associated with history of slavery. It builds on the work of the History of Slavery Steering Group which has mentioned the Stirling Maxwell collection as one of the ways the University profited from slavery in the Caribbean. The work is intended as a contribution to ‘Decolonising the Curriculum’ initiatives that provide new insights into Scotland’s place in the world and supports the aims of the ‘Understanding Racism: Transforming University Cultures’ report. https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/collections/perspectivesonthestirlingmaxwellcollection/

A how-to guide highlighting the potential costs of RDM processes.

A collection of guides to support your business dissertation research, including how to get started, effective search techniques, selecting the best databases and search tools for the types of information you need, finding secondary data, and evaluating information sources for relevance and quality.

A collection of guides to support your dissertation research including getting started, effective search techniques, selecting the best databases and search tools, finding secondary data and evaluating sources for quality and relevance.

A guide on where to search for the types of information you may use in your research, including: ~finding research handbooks, textbooks and monographs ~search engines and databases for finding journal literature in business research, including academic and practitioner articles ~finding high quality journal literature and links to citing papers and related literature (Scopus and Social Sciences Citation Index) ~Business databases for finding journal literature ~databases for business news and analysis ~databases for company information ~databases for economic and demographic data ~databases for market, industry and market research data ~databases for video, business cases and research methods ~specialist databases subscribed by the Business School ~finding grey literature (working papers) ~advanced searching on Google ~Google Scholar settings

~The literature review – how it contributes to planning your literature search/search strategy ~How searching works – how records are retrieved ~Generating search terms (keywords) - ways to identify relevant search terms ~Where to start…Library Search (and how it compares to Google Scholar) ~Some search examples – how to create a search query ~Useful features of Library Search – value added features to help with evaluating search results and finding related literature (research hacks to find papers) ~Locating previous dissertations

Guide to using Library Search

A short guide with links to appraisal tools for evaluating information sources for credibility, authority, bias and relevance. ~CRAAP Test (California State University) ~PROMPT Tool (Open University) ~CASP Checklists (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme, Oxford)

A guide for Social Science students on how to find and use secondary data. Information includes: ~Sources on doing secondary data analysis – case studies, videos and practice datasets ~Ethical considerations when using secondary data ~Guides on getting started using data from the UK Data Service ~Major national and international databanks and key open-source data ~Specialist collections of data (subscriptions available from the University of Glasgow) including data on countries, demographics, companies (including financials), consumers, markets and industries. ~Sources of data from published literature

A guide on key search tools and databases for education students doing dissertations or research projects. The guide includes information on: ~ finding textbooks, research handbooks and research monographs ~ finding journal articles ~when to use a search engine and when to use a database ~ multidisciplinary research databases (Scopus and Web of Science) ~subject-specific databases for education research ~overview of ERIC, BEI, Professional Development Collection ~searching for journals in the library collection ~Google - advanced searching ~Google Scholar settings ~getting material outside of the library collection ~links for EndNote software downloads and training guides

A guide to searching, including: ~ How searching works ~ Boolean operators ~ Phrase searching and proximity searching ~ Truncation and wildcards ~ Field searching – how to use it ~ Using controlled vocabulary and database thesauri ~ Complementary search techniques – citation searching

A guide for students doing a dissertation or research project. Guide includes information on: -The literature review – how it contributes to planning your literature search/search strategy - How searching works – how records are retrieved with different search techniques - Generating search terms (keywords) - ways to identify relevant search terms - Where to start…Library Search (and how it compares to Google Scholar) - Some search examples – how to create a search string - Useful features of Library Search – value added features to help with evaluating search results and finding related literature (research hacks to find papers) - Locating previous dissertations

Researchers can use this form to record the necessary deposit metadata required for new data records in Enlighten: Research Data. Once completed, the form can be emailed to research-datamanagement@glasgow.ac.uk NB Version 1 was replaced with Version 2 on 2023-01-16.

This guide is intended to help researchers consider which file formats to use when collecting and storing research data.

Video showing a worked example of how to use syntax to increase the sensitivity of a search strategy.

This paper will summarize and explain these changes, at a detail level that should suit and serve junior and senior (levels 3 and 4) undergraduate Sports Science, Physiology & Sports Science (PSS), and Physiology students as well as serve as a primer for postgraduate students in these fields, albeit many details will be omitted or shortened, to which the student is referred to the original published papers for completeness.

A summary of our solar energy research activities

CMALT Application

EndNote files and exercise handout for the course "Using EndNote to manage references in systematic reviews". Class video recording to follow.

This resource introduces the principle of open access to research outputs, and explains how to navigate REF and funders’ policies. It includes a PowerPoint presentation, a video of the presentation with voiceover, a transcript, and handout slides. Updated August 2021.

This record contains two files - a short animation to introduce the concept of open research, what processes make up open research, and how these are supported at the University of Glasgow and a text file containing the script for the animation.

Rise document - Pre-work

Document outlining the options for preregistration of reserach projects.

A guide on using Library Search, the main search tool on the Library homepage. The guide gives you information on what Library Search is, what information it indexes and how to use it effectively. You can use the contents pages to jump to the information you need, including searching, understanding search results and useful features like previews, citing literature and saving and exporting results.

This document provides in-depth, non-legal guidance in relation to what 3rd party media/materials can be used in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It examines how both creative Commons materials can be used , along with analysing when it is appropriate to make use of the UK Copyright exceptions.

This resource introduces the principle of open access to research outputs, and explains how to navigate REF and funders’ policies. It includes a PowerPoint presentation, a video of the presentation with voiceover, a transcript, and handout slides. Updated February 2021.

Video of Neolithic fabric from Robenhausen GLAHM: B.1951.3184/17

Video of fabric from Robenhausen GLAHM: B.1951.3184/9

Video of fabrics from Robenhausen GLAHM: B.1951.3184/10

Video of B.1951.3184/7 Swiss Lakes, Neolithic Fabrics

Video showing a glass stereoscopic negative from William S. Bruce collections

Video showing pantomime costume designs

A video showing an 18th-century letter sent to man-midwife James Douglas by a person seeking a job as a wet nurse

A video showing a ledger of early 20c pathology records

Photos from the staff cruise and sportsday in Scott-Lithgow shipbuilding collection

Video showing MS Kelvin LB1

Fragment of faience ring

Faience beads

Ceramic mould for faience bunches of grapes

Faience bunches of grapes ornament

Ceramic mould for faience bead

Ceramic mould for faience ring bezel

Ceramic mould for faience bead