Courses for researchers

The library offers sessions, courses and workshops on a number of topics. In addition to the scheduled sessions and workshops listed below, research groups, institutes and faculties are welcome to get in touch and invite us to their meetings. We can also tailor courses for you. We look forward to cooperating with you further. 

Spring 2026

Course descriptions will be available in January 2026.

4 February	Doing your litterature review
11 February	Ethical issues in academic writing
18 February	The Publishing Process and Publishing Ethics
4 March	Authorship
11 March	Artificial intelligence in the research process
18 March	Artificial intelligence tools: Keenious etc.
25 March	Artificial intelligence and systematic reviewing
8 April	Open Science/Access: An introduction
15 April	Challenges to the publishing landscape: Predatory journals, hijacked journals, paper mills
6 May	Dataverse (Open Data publishing)

Topics we offer

• Resources for researchers: Google Scholar, Publons, Scopus, Web of Science, Research Gate
• Orcid and author (researcher) id
• Literature searching: Where to search and how to do it
• Literature reviews, protocols and screening
• Reference management: Building your own article archive 
• Open publishing of research data
• Academic writing
• The Vancouver recommendations for authorship
• The publishing process (publication channels, peer review)
• Open Access / APC - can I apply for funding? Must I?
• Plan S
• The Cristin system and publication points
• Research evaluation: Norwegian publication indicator, citations, journal impact factor, H-index
• Academic integrity: predatory publication channels, self-plagiarism
• Copyright to your own academic work and our institutional rights retention policy 

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