Training

Thursday, February 12, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online (Teams)

Research data are precious and should be archived for the long term to ensure that results can be verified, and data can be re-used in the future.  This webinar looks at good practice for preparing data for deposit in a research data repository or archive.

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Monday, February 23, 2026 - 11:00 to 11:45

Online (Teams)

You wrote it. You own it

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Monday, March 2, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online (Teams)

This session will introduce participants to: The evolution of Open Access publishing, Funder Open Access policies, including the REF policy, How to publish Open Access and Equity and Open Access publishing.

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Thursday, March 5, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:30

Online (Teams)

The age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still in its infancy, and holds both promise and risk for researchers. In this session, we will consider what appropriate and ethical use of AI might look like, and map possible uses of AI tools against the research process – from determining what to resear...

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Thursday, March 12, 2026 - 13:00 to 14:00

Online (Teams)

Your research data are precious and should be looked after properly. This webinar looks at strategies for managing your research data to ensure it remains usable throughout your research project and beyond.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 13:00 to 14:00

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.

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Friday, March 20, 2026 - 11:30 to 12:30

Online (Teams)

This session will provide an overview of all the resources and services the OU library can offer you as a research student.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00

Online

You wrote it. You own it. From 1 March 2026, the OU is implementing a new Research Publications Policy to make Open Access publishing easy. Come along to this introductory session to learn more about what the policy means for your rights as an author.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00

Online (Teams)

This session will provide an overview of copyright and your thesis responsibilities.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00

Online (Teams)

Following on from Part 1 of this copyright series, this session will take a practical look at copyright licensing, Creative Commons and how to seek permission from copyright holders.

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Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online (Teams)

Research data should be made openly available, where possible, and be made FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). In this webinar, we will discuss what the FAIR data principles mean and how you can share your data in a way that meets them.

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Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online (Teams)

Where do you look for academic literature? In this session, we will consider literature searching models to formulate an effective search strategy, including scoping your topic and selecting relevant search engines, databases, and other places to look.

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Monday, June 1, 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...

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Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 13:00 to 14:00

Online (Teams)

Funders, publishers and institutions expect researchers to make their research data publicly available. This webinar looks at ORDO (Open Research Data Online), the OU's repository for research data and how it can be used to archive and share research data.

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