Research skills

Library Presentation for the ECO 1st year researchers

Searching, citing, managing documentation and information with Zotero

The EUI provides support for Zotero and unlimited space on the cloud for your files in your Zotero library. Zotero helps researchers capture web pages, multimedia content, PDFs and collect bibliographic records...

An introduction to Digital (Public) History: research data, practices, tools and methods

Digital (Public) History redesigned the way we access and use primary sources, scholarly information and documentation, the way we communicate and share history and the way we write history today. This seminar ...

Data for research in the social sciences: the Library Data Portal and Micro Data collection

The Library Data Portal for research in the social sciences ¿ The 3 data sub-directories: (i) macro, (ii) micro and (iii) Europe-related statistics ¿ The Library's restricted Micro Data Server ¿ Preparing Euros...

Commercial publishers and Open Access: know your rights!

This course will show and present tools to prepare your work for publishing. It will illustrate some practical advice on how to know your rights as an author. For example, how to use the Sherpa-Romeo tool to kn...

Zotero advanced features

This seminar follows the Zotero introductory course and will go deeply into organizing your bibliography with Zotero and looking at how to cite while you write, how to store, extract text and annotate PDFs.

Foster research impact: introduction to open scholarship practices

Online news sources at the EUI

The EUI Library provides access to a variety of online news sources ranging from individual newspapers subscriptions to aggregator services offering the contents of thousands of newspapers. This session provide...

Research Data Management, Data Management Plans, Open Data and the EUI ResData repository

Data management during the research cycle ¿ Data Management Plans (DMPs) ¿ Demonstration of DMPonline data management planning tool ¿ EU Horizon 2020 data requirements ¿ Data protection ¿ Database copyright ¿ D...

Using Turnitin to contextualize citations & dig into big textual data

Turnitin allow EUI members to verify the validity of their own writings, quotations and bibliographies. Turnitin let you also discover who else is working in your field of research, so to extend your knowledge ...

EU databases and Registers of documents

This course offers an overview and a comparison between the main EU databases. More specifically, it shows how to trace documents throughout the EU legislative process; how to find details of judgments made by ...