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Workshops and seminars
These workshops are offered as part of the University's EDGEx program and are designed to support Research Degree Candidates throughout the research lifecycle. Find out more about our wide range of research workshops by looking at the workshop descriptions below.
Workshop calendar
Workshops are listed at the links below. All workshops in the series should be booked to secure your place to attend.
- If you are completing a higher degree by research you MUST register via EDGEx.
- Staff, postgraduate coursework and honours students can view sessions and register here
Individual appointments or tailored workshops can be arranged by contacting Ask the Library.
Workshop descriptions
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Company and industry information
In this introductory workshop, discover a range of databases and information resources to assist you to locate company and industry information, such as:
- annual reports
- SWOT analyses
- basic company financials
- industry profiles
- competitive intelligence
Related resources: Company and Industry Information guide -
Copyright for your research proposal
Learn about the essential elements of copyright as you prepare your research proposal.
This workshop will cover:
- overview of copyright, licensing and moral rights
- your rights and responsibilities as an author
- the UniSA Thesis Toolkit and managing copyright in your research
Related resources: Copyright
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Copyright for your thesis
Are you planning on ....
- reproducing your previously published work in your thesis?
- publishing from your thesis?
- reproducing someone else’s work in your thesis - such as a table, chart, diagram or image?
- Have you sought permission from the copyright owner?
In this workshop we will review common copyright questions related to theses. We will also explore how to assess whether permission is required and demonstrate how to seek permission.
Related resources: Copyright
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Create a data management plan
Management of your research data is an essential part of every research project.
In this workshop you will learn how to:
- creating a data management plan using UniSA’s in-house tool
- sharing your completed plan with supervisors and collaborators
Related resources:
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EndNote: Cite While You Write
In this session, we will be expanding your knowledge on the following topics:
- find and change your referencing style in Word
- use EndNote with Harvard UniSA Referencing Roadmap
- merging your document while using EndNote
- convert your citations to plain text
- question time
Prerequisites: You must have already completed Getting started with EndNote or have a good understanding of EndNote before attending these sessions.
Related guide: EndNote
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EndNote for Mac
In this session, we will be expanding your knowledge on the following topics for Mac users:
- Save EndNote Library Package (.enlp)
- Where to save your EndNote library on a Mac?
- How to set up Cite While You Write with M1 Mac
- Using EndNote with Pages & Word
- Downloading reference files
- Question time
Prerequisites: You must have already completed Getting started with EndNote or have a good understanding of EndNote before attending these sessions.
Related guide: EndNote
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EndNote: Managing and maintaining your references
In this session, you will learn how to:
- Download and edit reference information
- Insert organisation name as Author
- Find and edit your reference style (Harvard UniSA, APA etc.)
- Deduplicate your references
- Manually add reference
- Find full-text (automatically and manually)
Prerequisites: You must have already completed Getting started with EndNote or have a good understanding of EndNote before attending these sessions.
Related guide: EndNote
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Finding grey literature
Grey literature generally refers to unpublished sources such as government documents, reports, conference proceedings, informal communications, guidelines, preprints and more.
This workshop will cover:
- What grey literature is, why it is important and why you should include it
- How to find it, where to look and what to search for
- Writing it up - what you should include in your methods section
- Keeping track of it all, documenting your searches and evaluating quality
Please note: If you are undertaking a systematic or scoping review you may find that the EDGE sessions in the ‘Systematic review’ series (‘Finding the evidence’, ‘Finding grey literature’ and ‘Manage your results’) better meet your needs.
Related resources: Grey Literature and Other Sources
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Finding theses
This practical workshop will enable participants to find and access completed theses written in their field of research. This includes UniSA theses, Australian theses and theses from around the world.
In this workshop you will search:
- University of South Australia’s Research Outputs Repository
- Trove – the public interface of the National Library of Australia
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Related resources: Theses guide
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Getting social with your research - using social media effectively as a researcher
As a modern researcher, how do you keep your finger on the pulse of current developments and connect you and your research with the world?
In this workshop you will learn about:
- the benefits and advantages of using social media as a researcher
- using different platforms for different purposes
- maintaining a professional presence online
- tips for creating engaging social media content
- using Altmetric Explorer to track engagement with your research
Includes guest speaker: learn some handy tips from UniSA's own researchers about their social media experiences.
Related resources: Social Media for Researchers
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Getting started with EndNote
‘Getting started with EndNote’ is a UniSA Library-facilitated workshop that allows you to learn about the reference management program EndNote and includes:
- creating a new library and adding references
- using ‘cite while you write’ to insert references into Word documents
- creating a bibliography
Related resources: EndNote
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Literature reviews: Plan your search strategy
Developing your search skills so you can search the literature effectively is a critical part of any literature review.
Attend this introductory workshop to learn how to:
- map out a comprehensive search strategy
- identify relevant databases to search
- apply your search strategy to a multidisciplinary database taking advantage of key features
- review and improve your search using valuable techniques
Please note: if you are undertaking a systematic or scoping review you may find that the EDGE sessions in the 'Systematic review' series ('Finding the evidence', 'Finding grey literature' and 'Manage your results') better meet your needs.
Related resources: Searching for your literature review
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Literature reviews: Manage your search results
Managing the literature you find is a critical part of any literature review. Attend this introductory workshop to learn a range of techniques to manage your literature successfully including how to:
- Save your search strategy and rerun it in relevant databases
- Print, email or export relevant literature
- Set up alerts to get the latest research sent to you
Please note: this session focuses on using the databases to manage search results. To learn how to use EndNote, see the EDGE workshop 'Getting started with EndNote'.
Related resources: Searching for your literature review
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Managing your EndNote library
In this session, you will learn how to:
- share your EndNote library with your peers
- sync your library across multiple devices
- compress library for backup
- create a travelling library from other’s Word documents with EndNote citations
- manage what to do if you have a missing or corrupted library
Prerequisites: You must have already completed Getting started with EndNote or have a good understanding of EndNote before attending these sessions.
Related guide: EndNote
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Publishing with impact: avoiding predatory publishers
If you’ve received emails inviting you to publish or present your work, or edit a special edition, it may be too good to be true!
In this workshop, learn about:
- What is predatory publishing
- How to identify genuine versus dodgy invitations using case studies
- Using Think. Check. Submit criteria to evaluate publishers
Related resources: Publishing guide
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Publishing with impact: choosing the 'right' journal
Are you looking for a journal in which to publish your paper, but not sure how to choose?
In this introductory workshop:
- Discover indicators that can be used to evaluate journal quality
- Verify publication quality and performance using Scopus, Journal Citation Reports, and other tools
- Interpret metrics such as the Impact Factor mindful of influencing factors such as disciplinary differences and database coverage
- Determine whether a journal has the characteristics of a 'predatory' publication
Related guides: Publishing
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Publishing with impact: insights from UniSA’s researchers
This workshop features a guest speaker who shares tips for those new to publishing to help you maximise your opportunities to be published with impact. Speakers are UniSA researchers with experience in publishing – as authors, peer reviewers and editors. Selected top tips from other UniSA researchers and UniSA Library will also be featured. Questions welcome!
Related guide: Publishing
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Publishing with impact: maximising the visibility of your work
This workshop covers strategies to increase the visibility and maximise the influence of your published research, including:
- Open Access models and options
- Depositing works to UniSA's Research Outputs Repository
- Publicly available author profiles such as ORCiD and ResearcherID/Publons
- Avenues for communicating your research
- Assessing your reach with altmetrics
Related guide: Publishing
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Storing and sharing data
Management of your research data is an essential part of every research project. In this workshop you will learn about:
- data storage options at UniSA – what is available and how much do you need?
- the benefits of sharing your data and how to do this
- meeting publisher and funding requirements for open data
Related resources: Research Data Management
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Systematic reviews (1 of 3): finding the evidence
A systematic review collates and synthesises the findings from critically appraised studies to provide high-level evidence in answer to a clearly formulated question.
This introductory workshop covers:
- overview of key steps in conducting a systematic review
- introduction to key guidelines and reporting standards
- key elements in a protocol
- selecting appropriate databases
- developing an answerable research question
- creating a search strategy balancing precision and inclusiveness
- remapping the strategy across different search platforms
Undertaking a scoping review instead? The systematic approach to searching covered in this workshop is also part of scoping review methodology, and both review types will be accommodated.
Please note: the Systematic Review series primarily supports health disciplines. If you are undertaking a review where you need to search systematically/comprehensively, but are not following specific systematic review methodology (https://guides.library.unisa.edu.au/SystematicReviews/OverviewofSR), you may find that the EDGE sessions in the ‘Literature reviews series('Plan your search strategy', 'Manage your search results') and the standalone ‘Finding grey literature’ workshop better meet your needs.
Related resources:
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Systematic reviews (2 of 3): finding grey literature
Grey literature generally refers to unpublished sources such as reports, conference proceedings, clinical trials, government documents, informal communications, practice guidelines, preprints and more.
This workshop covers:
- what grey literature is, why it is important and why you should include it
- how to find it, where to look and what to search for
- writing it up - what you should include in your methods section
- keeping track of it all, documenting your searches and evaluating the quality
Please note: the Systematic Review series primarily supports health disciplines. If you are undertaking a review where you need to search systematically/comprehensively, but are not following specific systematic review methodology, you may find that other EDGE sessions such as ‘Finding theses’, ‘Finding grey literature’ and the ‘Literature reviews’ series better meet your needs.
Related resources: Grey Literature and Other Sources
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Systematic reviews (3 of 3): managing your results
Covidence is a web-based software platform that streamlines the production of systematic reviews, including Cochrane reviews.
This workshop covers:
- how to prepare your EndNote library for export to Covidence
- an introduction to using Covidence software
- exporting from EndNote and an outline of the key steps such as citation screening, full text review, critical appraisal and data extraction
Knowledge of using EndNote is a prerequisite.
Related resources:
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Systematic reviews: translating your search (health)
Once you have finished developing your systematic search strategy to achieve the 'best balance' of sensitivity and precision, you will need to run the same search on a variety of different databases. The search needs to be adapted ('translated') so that it is optimised for each database and platform (interface).
This health-focused one-hour session focuses on how to translate your core MEDLINE (Ovid) search to Embase/Emcare (Ovid). Translation to up to two additional databases will also be covered (depending on time). These will be selected by popular vote on the day from the following: Cochrane Library, SPORTDiscus, CINAHL, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, ERIC, Scopus, and Web of Science.
We will work from an example MEDLINE search, and you can translate the principles and approach across to your own search at a later stage. You do not need to bring a finalised search, and there will not be time to translate your own search during the session (however questions related to your own search are welcome).
This is an advanced workshop; it is recommended participants have attended 'Systematic reviews (1 of 3): finding the evidence' before this session, or have prior knowledge searching on the Ovid interface (MEDLINE, Embase, etc.).
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