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. 

Fall 2025

• 17 September: Doing your literature review, but which one?
• 24 September: Academic writing for researchers
• 1 October: The publishing process
• 15 October: Open access publishing 
• 20-25 October: Open Access Week (national webinar series)
• 29 October: Authorship

In November/December we plan to offer a set of talks and workshops on Artificial Intelligence, for instance on how you by means of AI can follow academic debates in your field, how such tools might help you when reviewing literature, and more generally on how you can use AI in a productive way in your research, for instance as a "research assistant". 

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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