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The Library runs numerous training workshops throughout the academic year. All upcoming workshops are available to view and book via the Library training calendar. Details of individual workshops are listed below.
Finding Academic Sources of Information
Audience: All faculties.
Description: Get the most out of using academic sources. This 30 minute practical workshop will give you the opportunity to build on your information retrieval skills and engage with library resources more effectively.
Learning Outcomes: Develop effective searching skills; navigate library resources, build your knowledge in searching for academic sources.
Booking:
View all upcoming Finding Academic Source of Information workshops.
If you are interested in this workshop but are either unable to book a slot or unable to attend any of the advertised workshops, please contact your campus subject team.
Covidence
Audience: All faculties.
Description: Covidence is an online platform designed to simplify and accelerate the process of conducting systematic, scoping, rapid, literature, and umbrella reviews. Researchers across the University will benefit from its streamlined approach to managing review workflows. This introductory session is aimed at researchers new to Covidence who are keen to find out more about it.
This session will introduce you to Covidence and make you aware of its main features. You will gain an overview on:
- How to set up a review
- Importing references into Covidence
- Screening references
- Data Extraction and Quality Assessment
- Exporting from Covidence
Booking:
View all upcoming Covidence workshops.
Open Research
Audience: All faculties and research support staff.
Description: This 1h session will provide information on the funding available to Ulster University researchers to publish their works in open access. The session is recommended to all academic staff, researchers, and research support staff. UKRI-funded authors will have an opportunity to learn about support available to them to ensure compliance with funder open access requirements.
Booking:
View all upcoming Open Access Publishing workshops.
Audience: All faculties and research support staff.
Description: Licensing is crucial in academic publishing: it determines how others can discover, use, share, and build upon the published work. This 1h session will help authors understand their rights in the academic publishing landscape. It will provide information on how to retain your copyright and how to choose a copyright licence that improves the discoverability and impact of your research and meets funder requirements.
Booking:
View all upcoming workshops.
Generative AI
Audience: All students and staff.
Description: As Generative AI (GenAI) tools advance, they need to be used with responsibility, integrity, and strong ethical principles. This session will explore the different GenAI tools and their uses. It will also cover the associated risks and limitations, as well as appropriate methods for citing content produced by GenAI.
Booking:
View all upcoming Generative AI workshops.
Audience: All students and staff.
Description: Explore how Copilot can help you as a student. We’ll run through a few practical examples, share tips discuss using Copilot responsibly, ethically and with academic integrity.
Booking:
View all upcoming Generative AI workshops.
Audience: All students and staff.
Description: Many library databases (such as USearch, Web of Science, and JSTOR) have introduced generative AI functionalities, including natural language searching, keyword recommendations, and article summarisation tools.
Powered by commercial LLMs they are designed to generate responses that exclusively cite sources contained within each respective database.
This session will demonstrate these AI features and provide analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the functions and outputs.
Booking:
View all upcoming Generative AI workshops.
Bibliographies And Referencing Workshops
Audience: All students and staff
Description: RefWorks workshops are regularly scheduled for Library users. If you would like to learn how to use this important tool to manage your references online, please book a session.
Booking:
View all upcoming RefWorks workshops.
Audience: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment; Ulster University Business School.
Description: These workshops will run online and will demonstrate basic techniques for completing a Harvard reference for books, journals and web pages.
Learning Outcomes: Understand why referencing is important; Know how to insert citations in the text of your work; Know how to prepare a list of references in the Ulster University Harvard style; Know where to find help and advice on referencing and citing in our online Harvard Referencing web pages.
Booking:
View all upcoming Harvard Referencing (AHSS, CEBE, UUBS) workshops.
For further support, please see the Harvard Referencing guide and the associated video guides for harvard referencing.
Audience: Law
Description: These workshops will run online and will demonstrate basic techniques for completing a OSCOLA reference for books, journals & web pages.
Learning Outcomes: Be aware of general principles underlying OSCOLA referencing; Create basic footnotes for a case, legislation, a book, a journal article, a web page; Know where to find more help online and in print with OSCOLA citations; Understand plagiarism and know how to avoid it.
Booking:
View all upcoming OSCOLA Referencing workshops.
For further support, please see the OSCOLA Referencing Skills section (including videos) of the Law subject guide.
Audience: Life & Health Sciences
Description: These workshops will run online for Life and Health Sciences students and will demonstrate basic techniques for completing an American Psychological Association (APA) reference for books, journals and web pages. Plagiarism will also be covered.
Learning Outcomes: Understand why referencing is essential; Understand how to avoid plagiarism; Learn how to insert in-text citations; Learn how to create a reference list; Identify sources of help.
Booking:
View all upcoming APA Referencing workshops.
For further support, please see the APA Referencing guide.
Audience: Life & Health Sciences
Description: These workshops will run online and will demonstrate basic techniques for completing a Life & Health Sciences Harvard reference for books, journals and web pages. Plagiarism will also be covered.
Learning Outcomes: Understand why referencing is essential; Understand how to avoid plagiarism; Learn how to insert in-text citations; Learn how to create a reference list; Identify sources of help.
Booking:
View all upcoming Harvard Referencing (LHS) workshops.
For further support, please see the LHS Harvard Referencing guide and the associated video guides.
Audience: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment
Description: These workshops will introduce the IEEE Referencing Style and demonstrate basic techniques for completing an IEEE reference for books, journals and web pages.
Booking:
View all upcoming IEEE Referencing workshops.
