Transcript Library support for the Doctoral Development Programme

DDP
Partnership with the
University Library
Vic Grant
Faculty Librarian for Medicine, Dentistry and Health
Supporting information literacy:
working with our research
students
• Included in
UK Research Councils Joint Skills Statement
• a knowledge of recent advances
• identify and access appropriate bibliographical resources
• use IT appropriately for …recording and presenting information
• demonstrate awareness of rights of other researchers
eg attribution, copyright….
Current provision
Taught courses
• RTP modules with assessment
• RTP short skills seminars and workshops
• Seminars included in departmental training
Online tutorials
• Select information skills resource from www.shef.ac.uk/library
1-1 support
• Advisory service for individuals by appointment
• Tuesday lunchtime drop-in clinic in the Health Sciences Library
• Reviewing to balance needs with resources and to facilitate
collaborative learning
Library DDP table
Table of Library training options for DDP students, continued...
LMS
• http://www.shef.ac.uk/ris-grc/lms.html
Developments to support DDP
1 Researchers tab in Information Skills
Resource
• provides online learning available 24/7 via MUSE
• email & telephone support
• includes Web of Science, Scopus, Google tips, referencing
• to be developed to support students in the Faculty of Medicine,
Dentistry and Health
Developments to support DDP
2 Research information skills sessions
• Generic and/ or Faculty specific single sessions, booking via LMS
(Faculty specific will be bookable by email at the moment)
• Generic training will include EndNote, RSS feeds, copyright for eTheses
• Faculty specific will include literature reviews/ searching using CINAHL,
pubmed, Ovid Medline etc
• And Plagiarism /Endnote with the above databases
Developments to support DDP
3 Individual support
• from Library Faculty Liaison staff
Individual appointments
Drop-in clinic will continue
But lose the benefit of collaborative learning
Collaborative learning? How?
uSpace? Successful for EndNote FAQs. Facebook? Peer support
groups? What else ... ?
Where is our evidence that this is what
will help our students?
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Task and finish group to develop content of Faculty specific teaching, to ensure that we don’t lose
the strengths of RTP, to consider assessment and to implement better peer support and
collaborative learning
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Membership will include library staff, supervisors and students (let’s ‘walk in their shoes’
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Working in collaboration with ScHARR Library
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Suggested content
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Literature review/ literature search skills
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Endnote with relevant databases PubMed, CINAHL etc
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Plagiarism
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Systematic reviews and meta analysis
Faculty specific teaching: dates
for 2010/11
• 18 October 2010
Literature searching for a literature review
10 November 2010
Plagiarism and Endnote
More to be arranged after these are evaluated
Summary
• Will develop further in response to Faculty student &
staff needs via task and finish group and evaluation
• Include Librarians in dept PGR induction events to
promote uptake
• Partnership approach to ensure relevant content
Contact: Vic Grant
[email protected]