Resources and advice for students and researchers
You could think of Zotero as a house which you may want to customise to suit your needs. Instead of adding a porch or a swimming pool, this takes the form of plugins that allow you to add features to your reference manager. With the arrival of Zotero 7, which has brought some changes to the plugin landscape, this blog post has been updated.
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After a fruitful open access week (4 events with Catherine Brendow, including a discussion with department heads about a future policy), it is time for us to focus back on Open Data and Research Data Management. Here is what’s happening at the Institute around research data support, mostly through the collaboration of the Library and the Tech Hub.
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As the owner of perhaps the most influential academic social media tool – yes, I am talking about that guy and Twitter/X – is finally scaring away academics and most sane people off his $44bn platform, many of them are wondering where to go from there. Don’t worry, we have you covered, with an obvious focus on today’s darling social media, BlueSky.
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With two events happening at the same time, we decided to set up two different displays in relation with the month of November. Here is a glimpse of what you can find in the entrance of the Library for Academic Writing Month AND Diversity Month.
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November is Academic Writing Month! Writing theses, articles or books is a key skill for graduate students and researchers, and it is not an easy one to master. To help students master it, the Graduate Institute Library offers a wide choice of print and e-books on this topic. These resources are often updated and presented in a dedicated libguide, as well as a temporary display in the entrance of the Library.
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