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Displaying from Tuesday, May 14, 2019
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May 2019
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Tuesday 14 |
19:30 - TALK - "Edmund Gurney and the Power of Sound" : Friends of the Library Talk
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Edmund Gurney was a late-nineteenth-century polymath who is today best remembered for his writing on music and listening, and for his research into ‘psychical’ phenomena such as telepathy and ghosts. He wrote an influential book in 1880 titled The Power of Sound (1880), which is customarily (...)
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Tuesday 21 |
14:00 - SEMINAR - Copyright and your Thesis : Understand the lifecycle of copyright in a thesis
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This session will provide an overview of the lifecycle of copyright in a thesis to ensure you understand your copyright obligations and can confidently use copyright material in your thesis.
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Wednesday 29 |
Want to expand impact of your research? Interested in increasing collaboration, ensuring the integrity of research methodology and reducing duplication of effort? Keen to ensure your research can be relevant into the future? Or maybe your publisher just says that you have to make your research data (...)
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June 2019
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Wednesday 05 |
Learn to use Web of Science and Incites to benchmark your research against your peers, your area of research and even the whole world.
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Monday 10 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Storing your research data : Learn about research data storage options at UWA
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Are you storing your research data securely? Is it backed up regularly? Do you know what the minimum retention period is for the ongoing storage of your research data after your project is finished? This short 30 minute seminar will provide details of data storage options recommended by UWA, the (...)
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Tuesday 11 |
19:30 - EVENT - �Politics and the Novel� by Susan Midalia : Friends of the Library Talk
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Members: Free, Guests: $5 donation
The nineteenth-century French writer Stendhal famously observed that “politics in a literary work is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert: it’s something vulgar and coarse, which is also impossible to ignore.” Stendhal’s analogy posits (...)
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July 2019
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Tuesday 09 |
Members: Free, Guests: $5 donation
University press publishing is an unusual beast these days and very different to its twentieth century model. But universities have changed, too.
Book publishing on a broader scale is a complex business. At a time when library books, public (...)
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Wednesday 24 |
9:30 - EVENT - Research Impact Series - Achieving Your Research Outcomes : Wed 24 Jul and Thur 25 Jul 2019
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Achieving Your Research Outcomes is series of 12 events for UWA researchers, staff and postgraduate students to learn about the processes and functions that can help you achieve your research outcomes.
Sessions will run in succession at the Hemsley Learning Suite, Reid Library during (...)
Grammar holds sentences together, but it also communicates who you are. With the skills found in this course, you will gain a more advanced understanding of the grammar of English, and use this knowledge to make your writing more clear. This course is directly focused on writing, and gives you (...)
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August 2019
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Tuesday 13 |
7:30 - TALK - �The Atlantis of the North: unique records from �drowned landscapes� off northern Australia� : Friends of the Library Talk
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One of the defining attributes of modern humans is their ability to cross, navigate and systematically exploit maritime landscapes and resources. Some of the earliest indirect evidence for the maritime capabilities of people comes from the settling of the Wallacean Islands and Sahul (Australia, PNG (...)
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Thursday 22 |
11:00 - WORKSHOP - Google Scholar for Researchers : Get the best out of Google Scholar for your research
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Everyone Googles... but do you really know how to get the best out of Google Scholar for your research? This hands-on workshop will demonstrate the best tips and tricks to use Google to find scholarly material.
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Tuesday 27 |
1:00 - EVENT - Conducting a comprehensive literature search (Humanities and Social Sciences focus)
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Ensure that your literature searching is effective, efficient and thorough. Learn how to:
Develop a search strategy;
identify relevant, scholarly information sources and;
use tools and techniques to track the literature related to your research.
This session has a Humanities and Social (...)
Feeling a bit lost trying to navigate the deluge of scholarly literature in your area of research? Let us help you feel confident that you are finding the best and most relevant information for your literature review in an efficient and effective way. We will show you how to:
- Develop a (...)
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September 2019
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Tuesday 10 |
12:00 - WORKSHOP - Where to Publish : Deciding where and how to publish is an important step in the research process. Ensure that your research reaches the appropriate audience and maximise its discoverability and potential impact.
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This hands-on workshop introduces tools and tips for identifying relevant, quality journals and evaluating book publishers. We will also touch on meeting Open Access mandates from grant bodies, avoiding predatory publishers and publishing a thesis. Topics covered:
Identifying and assessing journals (...)
19:30 - EVENT - Translating a classic French novel: the problems posed by Emile Zola�s �The Dream� By Paul Gibbard : Friends of the Library
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In his celebrated Rougon-Macquart series of twenty novels, Émile Zola sought to present a ‘natural and social history of a family’ during the years of the Second Empire in France, 1852-1870. This was a family filled with ‘ravenous appetites’ who (...)
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Tuesday 24 |
It's important for researchers to understand their rights before entering into publishing agreements. This session, run by UWA's Copyright Librarian, will explore the rights that researchers have as authors, and will highlight some of the common publisher agreement terms to be aware of.
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October 2019
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Wednesday 02 |
Learn to share your EndNote Library with your research group, your supervisor or your colleagues in this hands-on session.
Join Gale Training Executive, Damian Almeida and Library Manager (Special Collections and Archives), Deanne Barrett for an overview of some of the valuable print and online archival collections you have access to at UWA.
Damian will demonstrate how to use Gale primary source (...)
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Thursday 17 |
This session will be useful for researchers who are applying for grants, tenure or promotion; or generally, wish to monitor their research performance.
It will be delivered as a Zoom webinar only. Please register online and the Zoom link will be emailed to you prior to the session. Zoom (...)
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Tuesday 22 |
13:00 - EVENT - "How to Publish Open Access for Free" - Open Access Week Seminar and Open Access Game
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October 21 - 25 is International Open Access Week
The theme for 2019 is "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge”
Take the opportunity during Open Access Week to consider the potential impact of your research, if everyone who could benefit had equal access to your (...)
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