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#SmartResearcher and #SmartStudent webinars for October 2022
Start: 29/09/2022, 15:00
End: 31/10/2022, 15:00
Contact:Kirchner van Deventer/Jeremiah Pietersen - 0218082623
Location: Webinars

#SmartResearcher

These workshops are aimed at postgraduate students, emerging researchers and academic staff and the focus will be on the research process. The sessions vary in length depending on the subject matter, but cover a wide range of subjects related to the postgraduate research journey. 

Mendeley for reference management

Managing your references can be a daunting task. This workshop will introduce you to Mendeley, a free tool focusing mainly on reference management. Mendeley offers various services, including reference management, organising and annotation of PDF documents and collaboration.

Date: Tuesday, 4 October, 14h00 – 15h30

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Managing your unique author identity with ORCID

ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. This workshop will explain what ORCID is, how to register and populate your profiles.

Date: Thursday, 6 October, 14h00 – 15h00

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Submitting your thesis /dissertation to SUNScholar

Are you ready to submit your thesis, dissertation or article to the Library's digital research repository? This library training opportunity for postgraduate students or staff is designed to provide practical guidance to those ready to submit their thesis/dissertation/article into SUNScholar.

Date: Tuesday, 11 October, 11h00 – 12h00

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#SmartStudent

This programme has been developed to provide students and staff with introductory sessions to library related topics. To this end, these sessions are only 30 minutes long and you are welcome to bring along any questions. In addition, we have developed some video tutorials for quick help.

Off-campus access to Library E-resources

Participants will learn how to access Library resources while off campus and via the Library website.

Date: Wednesday, 5 October, 12h00 – 12h30

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Improving your literature search strategy

Learn to improve your literature search strategy to get the best possible results when searching for information in databases.

Date: Monday, 10 October, 12h00 – 12h30

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