Dissertation Festival Recordings & Resources Welcome to Dissertation Festival. New recordings will be added as they become available. 06 - 17 Mar 2023 : recordings and resources Check your Source (May 2021 recording) - a short introduction to finding and evaluating academic or scholarly sources of information for study and research purposes. Enhance your research with SAGE Research Methods - SAGE Research Methods is a library database designed to help you through every stage of the research process. How to use the Library for your dissertation - Discover the digital resources available via the Library and find the literature you need for research in your subject area. Study Resources for Literature Reviews (Oct 2022 recording) - Learn effective approaches to literature review searching, including reference management tips. Heritage Collections Palaeography - methods and tools for reading old handwriting. Systematic Reviews What is a Systematic Review dissertation like? (Nov 2022 recording) Covidence beyond the basics - Covidence s used to support systematic review projects and simplifies collaborative processes for independent screening and other phases of systematic reviews. Topic Decolonising your dissertation: exploring new critical and practical approaches to your library research. Library Bitesize: EndNote and writing up: beyond the basics. Exploring political collections at the National Library of Scotland. 31 Oct - 04 Nov 2022 : recordings and resources Study Resources for Literature Reviews - Learn effective approaches to literature review searching, including reference management tips. How to use the Library for your dissertation - Discover the digital resources available via the Library and find the literature you need for research in your subject area. IAD (PGT) Searching Research Literature - The session helps participants understand the information research process and develop good practice in literature searching. Introduction to SAGE Research Methods Decolonising your dissertation: exploring new critical and practical approaches to your library research Using the National Library of Scotland for your dissertation - This introduction provides an overview of their wide range of collections and practical information on how to join the Library and access physical and online collections and resources. Heritage Collections Introduction to Collections Handling - How to safely handle a variety of objects found in the CRC library and archive collections. Health Archives: Using primary sources to discover the history of health - This session will focus on primary sources held in Lothian Health Services Archive, NHS Lothian’s archive at the University of Edinburgh. Where Does the Web Go? Archiving Important Web Content and Avoiding Link Rot in Citations - This session presents the overarching concepts of web archives – what they are and why they matter. It looks at approaches and tools used to collect and preserve web content, including citations and scholarly publications, and how archived web content can be accessed and used in research. Systematic Reviews What is a Systematic Review dissertation like? Managing the literature in systematic reviews LibSmart Dissertation Festival sessions are complemented by modules in LibSmart II, a self-enrol course on Learn, which can be undertaken at any time. For more information, see: https://www.ed.ac.uk/is/LibSmart Modules available: Business information Data mindfulness: finding and managing data for your dissertation Digital images sources Digital news sources Digital primary sources and digital scholarship Government and policy research Health literature Legal information Literature searching for systematic reviews Special Collections fundamentals Mar 06 2023 09.00 - Mar 17 2023 17.00 Dissertation Festival Recordings & Resources Welcome to Dissertation Festival. In addition to scheduled events, you can dip into the Festival Bag for a range of resources at any time including information on LibSmart modules. Event recordings will be added as they become available. Dissertation Festival Bag
Dissertation Festival Recordings & Resources Welcome to Dissertation Festival. New recordings will be added as they become available. 06 - 17 Mar 2023 : recordings and resources Check your Source (May 2021 recording) - a short introduction to finding and evaluating academic or scholarly sources of information for study and research purposes. Enhance your research with SAGE Research Methods - SAGE Research Methods is a library database designed to help you through every stage of the research process. How to use the Library for your dissertation - Discover the digital resources available via the Library and find the literature you need for research in your subject area. Study Resources for Literature Reviews (Oct 2022 recording) - Learn effective approaches to literature review searching, including reference management tips. Heritage Collections Palaeography - methods and tools for reading old handwriting. Systematic Reviews What is a Systematic Review dissertation like? (Nov 2022 recording) Covidence beyond the basics - Covidence s used to support systematic review projects and simplifies collaborative processes for independent screening and other phases of systematic reviews. Topic Decolonising your dissertation: exploring new critical and practical approaches to your library research. Library Bitesize: EndNote and writing up: beyond the basics. Exploring political collections at the National Library of Scotland. 31 Oct - 04 Nov 2022 : recordings and resources Study Resources for Literature Reviews - Learn effective approaches to literature review searching, including reference management tips. How to use the Library for your dissertation - Discover the digital resources available via the Library and find the literature you need for research in your subject area. IAD (PGT) Searching Research Literature - The session helps participants understand the information research process and develop good practice in literature searching. Introduction to SAGE Research Methods Decolonising your dissertation: exploring new critical and practical approaches to your library research Using the National Library of Scotland for your dissertation - This introduction provides an overview of their wide range of collections and practical information on how to join the Library and access physical and online collections and resources. Heritage Collections Introduction to Collections Handling - How to safely handle a variety of objects found in the CRC library and archive collections. Health Archives: Using primary sources to discover the history of health - This session will focus on primary sources held in Lothian Health Services Archive, NHS Lothian’s archive at the University of Edinburgh. Where Does the Web Go? Archiving Important Web Content and Avoiding Link Rot in Citations - This session presents the overarching concepts of web archives – what they are and why they matter. It looks at approaches and tools used to collect and preserve web content, including citations and scholarly publications, and how archived web content can be accessed and used in research. Systematic Reviews What is a Systematic Review dissertation like? Managing the literature in systematic reviews LibSmart Dissertation Festival sessions are complemented by modules in LibSmart II, a self-enrol course on Learn, which can be undertaken at any time. For more information, see: https://www.ed.ac.uk/is/LibSmart Modules available: Business information Data mindfulness: finding and managing data for your dissertation Digital images sources Digital news sources Digital primary sources and digital scholarship Government and policy research Health literature Legal information Literature searching for systematic reviews Special Collections fundamentals Mar 06 2023 09.00 - Mar 17 2023 17.00 Dissertation Festival Recordings & Resources Welcome to Dissertation Festival. In addition to scheduled events, you can dip into the Festival Bag for a range of resources at any time including information on LibSmart modules. Event recordings will be added as they become available. Dissertation Festival Bag
Mar 06 2023 09.00 - Mar 17 2023 17.00 Dissertation Festival Recordings & Resources Welcome to Dissertation Festival. In addition to scheduled events, you can dip into the Festival Bag for a range of resources at any time including information on LibSmart modules. Event recordings will be added as they become available.
