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Forty-five-minute Skills Boost

Our handy Skills Boost sessions help you get up and running with your University work.

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Finding Books, Searching SUPrimo and Reading Lists - Semester 1 2023-24

Finding Books, Searching SUPrimo and Reading Lists presentation September 2023
We’ll show you how to take your reading list and find its contents in the Library.

Literature searching: how to find and use databases - 2023-24

Literature Searching presentation - Semester 1 2023-24
How to find and use databases.
Literature Searching Worksheet - Semester 1 2023-24

Skills boost literature searching (recorded 08/21) [Video]

Google and Google Scholar - Semester 1 2023-24

Google and Google Scholar Presentation - Semester 1 2023-24
Avoid the pitfalls and get better results when using Google for academic work.

Evaluating information - Semester 2 2022-23

Evaluating information presentation - Semester 2 2022-23
Learn techniques to help you evaluate academic resources and online content. Includes using evaluation checklists and SIFT

Referencing presentation - Semester 1 2023-2024

Referencing presentation - Semester 1 2023-2024
Learn about why and how you should reference and where to find out more information about individual referencing styles.

Skills Boost: Referencing Skills [Video]
This session provides an overview of referencing and covers: What is referencing?Why you should reference. When you should reference. Examples of in-text citations and a reference list.
Formatting a reference manually: example [Video]
Here we look at an example of how you can manually format a reference to a source you have relied on in your own work.

Referencing with OSCOLA presentation [REFERENCING WEEK, 2023-2024]

Referencing with OSCOLA (2023-2024)
Use the OSCOLA referencing style to cite primary legal sources as well as secondary materials.

Referencing using OSCOLA [Video]
(N.B. The link to OSCOLA website has changed since recording. It is now: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/oscola.)

Copyright and Referencing [REFERENCING WEEK 2021-2022]

Copyright and Referencing
Copyright is an important aspect of your University studies. This presentation is designed to help you understand what it is, how referencing helps you comply with copyright, when exceptions apply and when you might need permission to use other people’s stuff.

Company information presentation - Autumn 2020

Company information presentation - Autumn 2020
Find up to date company information to help with assignments and even to help you prepare for job interviews.

Skills Boot: Everything you wanted to know about copyright but were afraid to ask - Presentation 2021-2022

Copyright is an important aspect of your University studies and this short course is designed to help you understand what it is and how to apply the rules correctly.

Everything you wanted to know about copyright but were afraid to ask.

Skills Boost: Finding legislation online (October 2022)

Skills Boost: Finding Legislation Online [Slides]
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Skills Boost: Finding Legislation Online [Video]
Here we will look at how to find legislation. We will focus on using the commercial legal databases Westlaw and Lexis Library - as well as the publicly accessible service Legislation.gov.uk - to do this.

Skills Boost: Finding case law online (October 2022)

Skills Boost: Finding Case Law Online [Slides]
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Skills Boost: Finding Case Law Online [Video]
Here we will look at how to find case law. We will focus on using the legal databases Westlaw and Lexis Library to do this.

Skills Boost: Finding grey literature (February 2022)

Skills Boost: Finding grey literature [Slides]
Presentation covering what is grey literature,
examples of grey literature, he pros and cons of using grey literature and how to find general sources of grey literature.

Finding Technical Standards - November 2022

Finding technical standards
A session on finding technical standards from organisations like British Standards, IEEE, ASTM

Keeping up to date: current awareness and academic literature. February 2023

Keeping up to date: current awareness and academic literature
Discover how to keep up to date on new research that is being published, Learn about search alerts, table of content alerts, author citation alerting and document alerts.

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