Research support workshops

Learn about the essential elements of copyright to consider as you prepare your research proposal, thesis, and research outputs such as journal articles.

This workshop will cover:

• copyright fundamentals
• ownership, moral rights, and Indigenous protocols
• identifying copyright material and likely copyright owners
• applying copyright exceptions and seeking permission where required
• your rights and responsibilities

Related Resource: Copyright for research and publishing

What makes a good data management plan and why is it important? Join us for this session where we will look at the benefits of data management planning, your data management planning obligations at Adelaide University, and how a well thought out data management plan can help to make your life as a researcher easier. 

Related resource: Research Data Management

Are you undertaking a review that requires a systematic search (systematic, scoping, umbrella, etc.)? This workshop will focus on the literature searching component of your review. This introductory workshop covers:  

• introduction to key review types  
• overview of key steps in conducting a systematic review  
• introduction to key guidelines and reporting standards  
• developing an answerable research question  
• key elements in a protocol  
• selecting appropriate databases
• creating a search strategy balancing precision and inclusiveness

Related resource: Systematic Reviews

This workshop focuses on sources and approaches other than searching standard databases. The aim is to locate published material not appearing in your database searches, and explore grey literature - unpublished sources such as reports, conference proceedings, clinical trials, government documents, informal communications, practice guidelines, preprints, and more.  

This workshop covers:  

• what grey literature is, why it is important and why you should include it  
• how to find it, where to look and what to search for  
• locating additional materials using techniques such as citation searching  
• writing it up – reporting standards and your methods section  
• keeping track of it all, documenting your searches and evaluating the quality

Related resources: Grey Literature and Other Sources

Once you have finished drafting your systematic search strategy, you need to review and refine. There are several techniques you can use to ensure your comprehensive search is finding more of what you want, and less of what you don’t.  This workshop covers:  

• how to review and refine your draft search  
• adapting your search to different databases and platforms (interfaces)

Related resource: Systematic Reviews > Search

Once you have finished refining and adapting your searches, you need to get the records out of the databases, screen them, and record what you do along the way. This session focuses on using EndNote and Covidence for this purpose.  This workshop covers:  

• batch exporting records from databases  
• how to prepare your EndNote library for export to Covidence  
• an introduction to using Covidence software for screening, critical appraisal, and data extraction  

Relevant resources: EndNote Guide or attend the Managing references with EndNote webinar, and Systematic Reviews > Screen

Please note that knowledge of using EndNote is a prerequisite for this session. 

LabArchives is an electronic research notebook that can be useful when needing to store, organise and collaborate around digital material and research data. This webinar is for new users getting started, or current users seeking a refresher on how to create notebooks, add and manage data, sharing and access controls, collaboration tools, and export options.

Related resource: LabArchives support

This workshop will introduce ways of demonstrating research impact, including common research metrics, the resources used to access them, and how they can be useful for different purposes to provide evidence of your research impact. 

Related resource: Metrics and Research Impact

Your Researcher Profile is a valuable tool for maximising your visibility as a researcher and demonstrating your achievements and research impact.  

Learn some tips and tricks for creating or enhancing your profile to showcase your activities. This session also covers ORCiD Profiles, and will touch upon Scopus Author Profiles, Web of Science ResearcherID, and Google Scholar Profiles too. 

Related resource: Researcher Profile support

Join us to hear from an Adelaide University researcher guest speaker who will share tips for those new to publishing to help you maximise your opportunities to be published with impact.    

Related resource: Publishing

Are you wondering where to publish your paper?  In this workshop you will learn how to:   

• Discover indicators that can be used to evaluate journal quality including impact factors and rank in category 
• Verify publication quality and performance using Scopus, Journal Citation Reports, and other tools   
• Interpret metrics such as the Impact Factor  
• Understand open access options 

Related resource: Publishing

Identifying predatory publishers is important as publishing your work with them can damage your research impact and professional reputation. In this workshop, learn about:   

• What is predatory publishing 
• How to assess a journal or conference to identify whether it is legitimate, or might be predatory  
• How to identify genuine versus suspicious invitations using case studies   
• Using Think. Check. Submit criteria and other tools to evaluate publishers

Related resource: Publishing > Predatory publishing

This workshop covers strategies to increase the visibility and maximise the influence of your published research, including:   

• Open Access models and options, and the Adelaide University Open Access Procedure   
• Depositing outputs to Adelaide Research & Scholarship 
• Publicly available author profiles such as ORCiD, Scopus profile and ResearcherID   
• Avenues for communicating your research   
• Assessing your reach with Altmetrics 

Related resource: Publishing > Visibility

Adelaide University researchers have access to Read & Publish agreements. The agreements provide researchers with the opportunity to publish their research open access without paying individual article processing charges.   

This session will cover:   

• Benefits of publishing via Read & Publish   
• Which publishers are included  
• Eligibility criteria, publishing workflow and copyright considerations    
• Capped agreements   
• Q&A 

Related resource: Publishing > Read & Publish Agreements

This workshop provides an introduction to systematic searching and literature reviews for non-health focused research, including: Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences; Business and Law; Creative Arts, Design and Humanities.  This workshop covers:  

• introduction to key review types
• overview of key steps in conducting a systematic review  
• introduction to key guidelines and reporting standards  
• choosing where to search  
• developing an advanced search strategy  
• refining, adapting, recording, and reporting your searches

This workshop provides an introduction to systematic searching and literature reviews for non-health focused research, including: Science; Engineering and Information Technology. This workshop covers:

• introduction to key review types
• overview of key steps in conducting a systematic review  
• introduction to key guidelines and reporting standards  
• choosing where to search  
• developing an advanced search strategy  
• refining, adapting, recording, and reporting your searches

Learn how to use the reference management software EndNote to manage, organise and share your references, and how to use the Cite While You Write feature in Microsoft Word to insert and edit citations from your EndNote library in your work.  

Related resource: EndNote