The Library research support workshops are open to all Adelaide University staff and student researchers.
Learn about the importance of creating an effective search strategy for your research literature review and how to do it by using core databases. This workshop covers:
- What is a literature review?
- Literature searching steps
- Forming a research question
- Developing and constructing a search strategy
- Advanced search techniques
- Reviewing and improving your search
- Saving and exporting search results
- Setting up alerts to get the latest research
Upcoming session: TBA
Learn how to use the reference management software EndNote to manage, organise and share your references, and how to use the Cite While You Write feature in Microsoft Word to insert and edit citations from your EndNote library in your work.
Upcoming session: TBA
What makes a good data management plan and why is it important? Join us for this session where we will look at the benefits of data management planning, your data management planning obligations at Adelaide University, and how a well thought out data management plan can help to make your life as a researcher easier.
Upcoming session: TBA
LabArchives is an electronic research notebook that can be useful when needing to store, organise and collaborate around digital material and research data. This webinar is for new users getting started, or current users seeking a refresher on how to create notebooks, add and manage data, sharing and access controls, collaboration tools, and export options.
Upcoming session: TBA
Join us to hear from an Adelaide University researcher guest speaker who will share tips for those new to publishing to help you maximise your opportunities to be published with impact.
Upcoming session: TBA
Are you wondering where to publish your paper? In this workshop you will learn how to:
- Discover indicators that can be used to evaluate journal quality including impact factors and rank in category
- Verify publication quality and performance using Scopus, Journal Citation Reports, and other tools
- Interpret metrics such as the Impact Factor
- Understand open access options
Upcoming session: TBA
Identifying predatory publishers is important as publishing your work with them can damage your research impact and professional reputation. In this workshop, learn about:
- What is predatory publishing
- How to assess a journal or conference to identify whether it is legitimate, or might be predatory
- How to identify genuine versus suspicious invitations using case studies
- Using Think. Check. Submit criteria and other tools to evaluate publishers
Upcoming session: TBA
This workshop covers strategies to increase the visibility and maximise the influence of your published research, including:
- Open Access models and options, and the Adelaide University Open Access Procedure
- Depositing outputs to Adelaide Research & Scholarship
- Publicly available author profiles such as ORCiD, Scopus profile and ResearcherID
- Avenues for communicating your research
- Assessing your reach with Altmetrics
Upcoming session: TBA
Adelaide University researchers have access to Read & Publish agreements. The agreements provide researchers with the opportunity to publish their research open access without paying individual article processing charges.
This session will cover:
- Benefits of publishing via Read & Publish
- Which publishers are included
- Eligibility criteria, publishing workflow and copyright considerations
- Capped agreements
- Q&A
Upcoming session: TBA
This workshop will introduce ways of demonstrating research impact, including common research metrics, the resources used to access them, and how they can be useful for different purposes to provide evidence of your research impact.
Upcoming session: TBA
Your Researcher Profile is a valuable tool for maximising your visibility as a researcher and demonstrating your achievements and research impact.
Learn some tips and tricks for creating or enhancing your profile to showcase your activities. This session also covers ORCiD Profiles, and will touch upon Scopus Author Profiles, Web of Science ResearcherID, and Google Scholar Profiles too.
Upcoming session: TBA
Are you undertaking a review that requires a systematic search (systematic, scoping, umbrella, etc.)? This workshop will focus on the literature searching component of your review. This introductory workshop covers:
- introduction to key review types
- overview of key steps in conducting a systematic review
- introduction to key guidelines and reporting standards
- developing an answerable research question
- key elements in a protocol
- selecting appropriate databases
- creating a search strategy balancing precision and inclusiveness
Upcoming session: TBA
This workshop focuses on sources and approaches other than searching standard databases. The aim is to locate published material not appearing in your database searches, and explore grey literature - unpublished sources such as reports, conference proceedings, clinical trials, government documents, informal communications, practice guidelines, preprints, and more.
This workshop covers:
- what grey literature is, why it is important and why you should include it
- how to find it, where to look and what to search for
- locating additional materials using techniques such as citation searching
- writing it up – reporting standards and your methods section
- keeping track of it all, documenting your searches and evaluating the quality
Related resources: Grey Literature and Other Sources
Upcoming session: Thursday 26 February 2026, 10am-12pm
Please note if you are a Graduate Researcher you must register for workshops via GRIT.
Once you have finished drafting your systematic search strategy, you need to review and refine. There are several techniques you can use to ensure your comprehensive search is finding more of what you want, and less of what you don’t. This workshop covers:
- how to review and refine your draft search
- adapting your search to different databases and platforms (interfaces)
Related resources: Systematic Reviews: Search
Upcoming session: Thursday 5 March 2026, 10am-12.30pm
Once you have finished refining and adapting your searches, you need to get the records out of the databases, screen them, and record what you do along the way. This session focuses on using EndNote and Covidence for this purpose. This workshop covers:
- batch exporting records from databases
- how to prepare your EndNote library for export to Covidence
- an introduction to using Covidence software for screening, critical appraisal, and data extraction
Relevant resources: EndNote Guide or attend the Managing references with EndNote webinar.
Please note that knowledge of using EndNote is a prerequisite for this session.
Upcoming session: Thursday 12 March 2026, 10am-12pm
Please note if you are a Graduate Researcher you must register for workshops via GRIT.
This workshop provides an introduction to systematic searching and literature reviews for non-health focused research, including: Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences; Business and Law; Creative Arts, Design and Humanities. This workshop covers:
- introduction to key review types
- overview of key steps in conducting a systematic review
- introduction to key guidelines and reporting standards
- choosing where to search
- developing an advanced search strategy
- refining, adapting, recording, and reporting your searches
Upcoming session: Wednesday 4 March 2026, 11am-12.30pm
Please note if you are a Graduate Researcher you must register for workshops via GRIT.
This workshop provides an introduction to systematic searching and literature reviews for non-health focused research, including: Science; Engineering and Information Technology. This workshop covers:
- introduction to key review types
- overview of key steps in conducting a systematic review
- introduction to key guidelines and reporting standards
- choosing where to search
- developing an advanced search strategy
- refining, adapting, recording, and reporting your searches
Upcoming sessions: Monday 2 March 2026, 11am-12.30pm
Please note if you are a Graduate Researcher you must register for workshops via GRIT.
