DDP Partnership with the University Library Vic Grant Faculty Librarian for Medicine, Dentistry and Health

Supporting information literacy: working with our research students Included in UK Research Councils Joint Skills Statement UK Research Councils Joint Skills Statement a knowledge of recent advances identify and access appropriate bibliographical resources use IT appropriately for …recording and presenting information demonstrate awareness of rights of other researchers eg attribution, copyright….

Current provision Taught courses RTP modules with assessment RTP short skills seminars and workshops Seminars included in departmental training Online tutorials Select information skills resource from support Advisory service for individuals by appointment Tuesday lunchtime drop-in clinic in the Health Sciences Library Reviewing to balance needs with resources and to facilitate collaborative learning

Library DDP table

Table of Library training options for DDP students, continued...

LMS

Developments to support DDP 1 Researchers tab in Information Skills Resource provides online learning available 24/7 via MUSE & telephone support includes Web of Science, Scopus, Google tips, referencing to be developed to support students in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health

Developments to support DDP 2 Research information skills sessions Generic and/ or Faculty specific single sessions, booking via LMS (Faculty specific will be bookable by at the moment) Generic training will include EndNote, RSS feeds, copyright for eTheses Faculty specific will include literature reviews/ searching using CINAHL, pubmed, Ovid Medline etc And Plagiarism /Endnote with the above databases

Developments to support DDP 3 Individual support from Library Faculty Liaison staff Individual appointments Drop-in clinic will continue But lose the benefit of collaborative learning Collaborative learning? How? uSpace? Successful for EndNote FAQs. Facebook? Peer support groups? What else... ?

Where is our evidence that this is what will help our students? Task and finish group to develop content of Faculty specific teaching, to ensure that we don’t lose the strengths of RTP, to consider assessment and to implement better peer support and collaborative learning Membership will include library staff, supervisors and students (let’s ‘walk in their shoes’ Working in collaboration with ScHARR Library Suggested content Literature review/ literature search skills Endnote with relevant databases PubMed, CINAHL etc Plagiarism Systematic reviews and meta analysis

Faculty specific teaching: dates for 2010/11 18 October 2010 Literature searching for a literature review 10 November 2010 Plagiarism and Endnote More to be arranged after these are evaluated

Summary Will develop further in response to Faculty student & staff needs via task and finish group and evaluation Include Librarians in dept PGR induction events to promote uptake Partnership approach to ensure relevant content Contact: Vic Grant