Teaching and courses offered to researchers
The library introduces useful topics to those who research, write and publish.
The library offers sessions, courses and workshops on a number of topics. In addition to the scheduled sessions and workshops listed below, research groups, institutes and faculties are welcome to get in touch and invite us to their meetings. We can also tailor courses for you. We look forward to cooperating with you further.
Fall 2024
More teaching sessions for the fall semester 2024 and descriptions will be posted in August.
| 4 September | Literature searching, or "why not just Google it?" |
| 9 September | Doing your literature review - but which one? |
| 16 September | Publishing |
| 27 September | Predatory journals and paper mills |
| 7 October | Literature searching, or "why not just Google it?" |
| 21-27 October | Open Access Week 2024 |
| 4 November | Academic writing for researchers |
Topics we offer
- Resources for researchers: Google Scholar, Publons, Scopus, Web of Science, Research Gate
- Orcid and author (researcher) id
- Literature searching: Where to search and how to do it
- Reference management: Building your own article archive
- Open publishing of research data
- Academic writing
- The Vancouver recommendations for authorship
- The publishing process (publication channels, peer review)
- Open Access / APC - can I apply for funding? Must I?
- Plan S
- The Cristin system and publication points
- Research evaluation: Norwegian publication indicator, citations, journal impact factor, H-index
- Academic integrity: predatory publication channels, self-plagiarism
- Copyright to your own academic work and our institutional rights retention policy