Calendar of Strategies for Successful Research on campus workshops
Strategies for Successful Research (SSR) oncampus workshops are a series of workshops available at each metropolitan campus.
The workshops are available to UniSA academic, research and professional staff,
Higher Degree by Research candidates and all postgraduate and honours students.
All workshops are held in the training room in each library.
These workshops are presented by the Academic Library Services Team. The workshops offered at each campus reflect the teaching and research of a Division.
Further information on the content of each workshop is available by referring to the relevant workshop outlined below.
Registration details for Staff and Postgraduate Students
Database searching for your research
Do you search the databases in your field of research effectively? How do you keep up to date with the latest content being published?
Come to this workshop and discover techniques and tools to find the best and most recent information for your literature review and research.
• Learn to search the databases for your field of research efficiently
• Keep up to date with the latest publications with database alerts
EndNote essentials
EndNote essentials is for people who would like to learn EndNote. It includes creating a new library and adding references, inserting references into Word documents and creating a bibliography.
Who's citing whom in Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar?
Do you have a key paper that underpins research in your area? Can you find the papers that informed the research, or see who has cited the paper since it has been published? In this workshop, use Web of Science and Scopus to navigate forwards and backwards in time to discover the impact of the research, find related papers, and create subject and citation alerts. Google Scholar will also be reviewed.
Thursday, 14 June 2012 -
Mawson Lakes -
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM -
( University wide ) -
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Exploring the medical subject headings
Advanced subject searching in the Ovid health sciences databases offer many features that are not encountered in other databases. Have you wondered about the explode or focus features that relate to subject searching or the option to map to a subject heading? Discover the features of Ovid databases such as Medline, the Nursing database and Embase, explore the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and doing precise subject searching to enhance the relevance of your results and provide a search framework for a systematic review.
Where could I publish?
Are you looking for a journal in which to publish your paper? How do you know if it is peer reviewed, in the ERA journal list, or has an impact factor? In this workshop, discover the world of peer review, open access journals, rankings and impact factors; find and locate a journal in which to publish your paper; look for instructions for authors; and learn some handy tips from UniSA’s own researchers about their publishing experiences.
Searching for evidence based resources and systematic reviews
Looking for evidence based health literature as part of your systematic review? This workshop looks at what is evidence based health care, hierarchies of evidence, planning your search, searching for evidence based literature in databases including Medline, CINAHL, Embase and Cochrane Library, saving your search history, and accessing clinical guideline collections and other relevant web resources.
Managing and tracking your publications
Are you thinking of preparing a grant application, applying for promotion, or is your UniSA staff home page publication list due to be updated? In this workshop you will learn about the citation features of ResearcherID and Scopus, and set up a ResearcherID profile via Web of Science. You can also automatically track your existing citation counts, view your h-index, see who is citing your research and create a badge/link for your UniSA home page to link to your publications.
Wednesday, 27 June 2012 -
Mawson Lakes -
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM -
( University wide ) -
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Discovering pharmacy and medical sciences databases
Searching for pharmacy and medical sciences information? Using Medline, Embase, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts and Scopus you will be able to develop effective searching strategies, modify and save your search history, and create alerts to keep up to date. SciFinder will also be demonstrated, as well as looking at some of the pharmacy resources that are available, including Medicines Complete, USP-NF Online, and the European pharmacopoeia.
Company and industry information
Do you need to find company and industry information such as SWOT analyses, company financials, industry profiles, or competitive intelligence? Learn how to uncover this information in a range of databases and other sources.
Workshop focus:
- Business - business, management, accounting, marketing, law
- EASS - education, art, architecture and design, communication, international studies, psychology, social work and social policy, Australian and indigenous studies
- Health sciences - nursing and midwifery, pharmacy and medical sciences, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, human movement, medical radiation, health sciences
- ITEE - computer and information science, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, civil engineering, construction management, chemical engineering, electrical and information engineering, systems engineering, telecommunications, aviation, mathematics and statistics, environmental sciences
- RESA - Research Education Support Activities. An initiative of the
Graduate Studies Office, Learning and Teaching Unit and UniSA Library.
Workshops are run in the research areas of:- Business, social sciences and humanities at City East, City West and Magill.
- Sciences, engineering and technology at Mawson Lakes
Latest content revision: Thursday, 8 March 2012