Research skills

Zotero for Lawyers

Learn how to use legal citation styles and manage legal sources such as case law, legislation, treaties in Zotero. 

Openness and impact: an introduction to Open Science and online visibility

Open Science can be described as the practice of making research and scholarship as open and transparent as possible (but also as closed as necessary) throughout the research lifecycle. This training session is...

Thomson Reuters Westlaw for Legal Research

In this session you will learn how to navigate Westlaw, search across case-law and legislation databases, retrieve secondary sources and news information, and find out how to efficiently obtain references and i...

Finding, Using and Preserving Research Data in the Social Sciences

This session covers Library support for (i) data discovery (ii) data use and (iii) data preservation and sharing: - Data discovery: the Library Data Portal - The three data sub-directories: (i) macro (ii) micro...

Copyrights and Creative Commons: what’s best for you?

Practical session on how to choose and use Creative commons licences. 

Introduction to Git and GitHub for social science research

Disseminating your research: infographics and web

This session will provide a series of practical tools to make research infographics (or posters) and it will also look into some options to increase your presence on the web.