WISER sessions in week 6

All members of the University and Bodleian Library Readers may attend WISER workshops. Some individual workshops are designed for particular groups (for example researchers or postgraduates). Check the individual class descriptions for more details. Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops in Week 6. WISER: Finding Stuff – Books etc on SOLO [Wednesday 30 May 14.00 - [...]

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Courses for 2nd year Historians doing thesis research

Whether you’re still trying to settle on a topic, or already reading up on a particular area, there are a host of courses over the rest of the term that can help second year History undergraduates research their thesis topic. Specially designed for second year undergraduate Historians Library staff will be running two sessions in [...]

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WISER courses in Week 5

Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops during week 5: WISER: Information Sources for African Studies [Monday 21 May 09.15 - 10.45] – This session will cover finding tools for locating African Studies materials, key portals and gateways for African Studies and online archives of primary texts.  Starting with a presentation the session will [...]

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History Thesis Fair this afternoon

Don’t forget to come along to the Thesis Fair this afternoon.  Subject specialists will be at the North Writing Schools in the Exam Schools on the High St 2-4pm to help second year History undergraduates get ideas about resources for their thesis. Full details at www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history/thesisfair

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WISER courses in week 4

Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops during week 4:       ARTstor and Bridgeman: Using images in teaching and learning [Tuesday 15 May 14:00-16:00] – This workshops covers two major digital image collections subscribed to by the University – ARTstor and Bridgeman Education – geared to research and teaching in the humanities, history of science [...]

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Digital humanities lunchtime session 8 June 2012

Course Title: Make: Data – Towards a digital toolbox for researchers in the Humanities Date: Friday 8 June 12:30-13:30 Location: OUCS The session will present how two DPhil projects in History apply various digital tools (text encoding, data visualisation, corpus linguistics, semantic web) to analyse medieval texts.  The session is aimed at anyone interested in [...]

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WISER Sessions next week on RefWorks and depositing your DPhil thesis in ORA

Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops during week 3: WISER: Your thesis, copyright and ORA [Wednesday 9 May 12:30 – 1:30] – Oxford DPhil students are required to deposit a copy of their thesis in ORA (Oxford University Research Archive).  This session will focus on copyright and other issues that DPhil students need [...]

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WISER Sessions on finding stuff next week

Are you confident that you are finding the best papers to support your research and study?  Next week Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops on finding scholarly materials. WISER: Finding stuff – books etc on SOLO (Monday 30 April 14.00.-15.00 and repeated Wednesday 30 May 14.00-14.45)  – introduces SOLO for searching Oxford Libraries and focuses on effective ways [...]

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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

The Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School (DHOXSS) 2012 is scheduled for the first week of July! From the 2nd – 6th of July 2012 DHOXSS delegates visiting the University of Oxford, UK, will be introduced to a range of topics suitable for researchers, project managers, research assistants, and students who are interested in the creation, management, or [...]

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Research Skills Toolkit sessions for postgrads this week

Need to brush up on your IT and information skills?  Why not come to a Research Skills Toolkit in 8th week? These free 2 hour workshops introduce key software and online tools for your research, hone your searching and information skills and introduce you to subject specialists.   The Research Skills Toolkit is open to postgraduate [...]

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