What's On at UWA

Web of Science and InCites are powerful tools for benchmarking your research but can be tricky to use! In this session, you will learn to how benchmark research groups and individuals. We will also explore the CNCI (Category Normalised Citation Impact) metric as one way of demonstrating research (...)

Want to expand the scale and impact of your research? Interested in increasing collaboration, ensuring the integrity of research methodology and reducing duplication of efforts? Keen to ensure your research can be relevant into the future? Or maybe your publisher just says that you have to make (...)

Diana Warnock, a former newspaper and radio journalist, went into politics at the age of 52 when she was elected as the State member of Parliament for Perth in 1993. Before entering politics, Diana was an activist for about 30 years for women’s rights and for minorities, and always belonged to (...)

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 (...)

Have you considered the data you will gather and create during your research?

It is essential to store this data appropriately, and there can be huge benefits to sharing the data alongside your published research.

The University Library provides a range of services to help (...)

Everyone Googles... but do you really know how to get the best out of Google for your research? This hands-on workshop will demonstrate the best tips and tricks to use Google to find scholarly material.

This event will be run in Zoom.

It's more important than ever to be strategic about where you publish your research to maximise reach and potential impact, as well as ensure you are working with quality and legitimate publishers.

We will cover:

- Identifying and assessing journals for quality, reach and (...)

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 a (...)

Keeping up with new and relevant information, within a body of literature that is growing by millions of articles and books per year, can be overwhelming and leave you feeling anxious about missing something important.

In this session we show you techniques and tips for staying on top of (...)

Ever wanted to publish in Nature and/or Science but not sure whether your article is suitable, or how to go about it? Join us for a panel discussion on publishing in Nature/Science with UWA authors sharing their insights.

Webinar: The why and how of publishing in Nature or Science: UWA (...)

The recovery of the ‘Vienna Dexippus’ has been one of the most significant discoveries in recent Classical palaeography. The text, recovered from the reused leaves of an 11th century manuscript, later bound into a 13th century Greek codex, now in the Austrian National Library, sheds (...)

Ensure that your literature searching is effective, efficient and thorough. Learn how to:

-Develop a search strategy,

-Identify relevant, scholarly information sources,

-Use tools and techniques to track the literature related to your research.

This (...)

Agriculture 4.0 is set to provide an interactive platform to discuss the opportunities offered by disruptive digital technologies to increase productivity, and access to services and markets in the agricultural sector.

Industries 4.0 is set to provide an interactive platform to discuss (...)

A good systematic review requires a rigorous and systematic search of the literature to ensure all relevant publications are identified. This introductory seminar is intended for UWA research students and researchers who are planning to undertake a systematic review (or similar), or who are in the (...)

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. It also briefly covers copyright aspects of re-use of your thesis material in further publication.

Applying for grants, tenure or promotion, or just wanting to monitor your research performance? This session is for you. It will cover:

Finding the right researcher profiles for you; Citation numbers for your individual publications; Your H-index; Australian and international library (...)

Are you sure you want to share that data? What else is your data exposing? Researchers in a range of different fields need to de-identify or anonymise their data for a range of reasons. Join in this online panel discussion to hear how UWA researchers address these issues and more.

Approach your research in an effective and efficient manner from the start of your candidature. This 90-minute online workshop will give you confidence to:

- Plan a thorough literature search - Identify relevant, scholarly sources - Evaluate your search results - Manage your references - (...)

October 25-31 is Open Access Week! Open Access Australasia have planned a festival of thoughtful panels and topical presentations for OA week 2021. Join your colleagues from the UWA Library for a viewing of this online panel session and discussion afterwards.

The outputs from academic (...)