Upcoming Training Events

The Library Research Support Team runs a range of online and face-to-face training sessions throughout the year. Recordings of online sessions are available on Adobe Connect

Training

A close-up of a couple of people using a computer sitting on an outdoors bench. Photo by Armin Rimoldi.

The Library Research Support Team runs a range of online training sessions for OU staff and postgraduate research students throughout the year.
To access slides and recordings of our sessions, please visit the Library Research Support Training Teams site and click on the "Files" tab.

The Library Live Engagement team also run a range of online training sessions including an introduction to library services, smarter searching with library databases and an introduction to reference management tools. The recordings of these sessions are on YouTube.

Literature searching: Part 3 of 3 Webinar (2026.06.08)

Monday, June 8, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online (Teams)

How do you successfully manage hundreds of citations? This session takes you through how to evaluate search results to identify the highest quality resources on a topic and how to manage your citations. You will learn how to set up search alerts and export search results, and explore the functionali...

For further information [email protected]

How the Library can support your research Webinar (2026.07.01)

Wednesday, July 1, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online (Teams)

This session will give a brief overview of the services and resources offered by the Library. If you are a new PGR or early on in your research degree, we recommend you attend the ‘Library support for your research degree: an overview’ training session.

For further information [email protected]

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