Workshops and development

Introducing Manchester Met’s research publications policy, which empowers you to retain your author rights.

Retaining your author rights to your journal articles means that:

• You keep ownership of the copyright to your work.
• You can always make your work immediately open access (OA) on publication
• You decide how your work will be used in the future.

This session will show you how and when to use the policy and will include a Q&A session. All Manchester Met research staff and doctoral students should attend.

Select Book Now at the bottom of this page to book a place on this workshop.

This Cited Reference Searching workshop is aimed at doctoral students and academic staff. Cited reference searching is a technique that will help you to:

• Find additional relevant research papers​
• Develop an understanding of how a piece of research has been received by the scholarly community​
• Get an idea of the extent of a piece of research’s influence​

Cited reference searching differs from a keyword search as it allows you to find articles that have quoted a given article in their bibliography. A citation search takes you forward in time, by identifying more recent articles that cite an article of interest to you. This hands-on workshop will take you through the process of carrying out a cited reference search on appropriate databases.

This session, aimed at doctoral students and academic staff, focuses on copyright issues that you should be aware of during your research process. It is important to understand why copyright matters when presenting research in a thesis as this will involve the use of the work of others. You should be aware of the rights that apply to your own work and consider how you want others to use the content that you create.

This research data management (RDM) workshop is aimed at doctoral students and academic staff. RDM is about documenting, organising, storing, and providing access to the data you produce as part of your research. Good data management will improve the efficiency of your research by saving you time and enabling you to go back and understand your data.

It will also add value to your data by increasing its visibility making it findable, understandable and accessible for others. The workshop will introduce you to RDM, present the key steps to good data management and provide some useful tools for managing data including what support the library can offer.

Take our self-paced online tutorial: research data management

Other helpful links:

• Library support for research data management YouTube playlist
• Research data management guide

Understanding how to publish your research open access (OA), so that it can be used freely and without restriction by a global audience, is increasingly important. Funders, government and institutions are placing an increased emphasis on good open research practices. This session is aimed at doctoral students and academic staff and will focus on: 

• Benefits to you of open access 
• Routes to open access 
• How to comply with publisher and funder requirements 
• How the Library can help you

This session is aimed at doctoral students and academic staff and will introduce you to data management plans and how they can help you manage your project and meet funder requirements. This session will get you started writing one with DMPOnline, a free tool providing guidance and funders’ templates.

This workshop is particularly aimed at doctoral students and academic staff who are actively publishing their work.

Creating and managing your online researcher profiles is key in getting your work discovered, used, discussed, cited and recognised. Setting these profiles up correctly ensures that they are accurate, complete, updated regularly and can save you time and effort and improve your research metrics. This session will be of use to researchers who are new to online researcher profiles and researchers who already have them, but want to maximise their benefit. In this practical session we will help you to:

• Understand what researcher profiles, such as Scopus, ORCID, Symplectic and Google Scholar are and where to find them.
• Help you to set up profiles such as ORCID if you do not already have them.
• Configure your researcher profiles so that systems interact and update records of your research outputs seamlessly.
• Help you to correct errors, such as duplicate profiles and missing information.

This workshop is particularly aimed at doctoral students and academic staff who are actively publishing their work. The University believes that making your research outputs available as widely as possible maximises their impact within the academic community and society. Publishing open access is also important for meeting funder requirements and REF eligibility. The University has several open access publishing agreements with publishers as well as a budget to help cover the costs of open access publishing outside of these agreements  

This session will help you identify what journals are covered by the University’s open access publishing agreements, look at how to benefit from these agreements, and explain how to apply for funding for open access publishing charges. We will also show you how to search for individual journal titles covered by our agreements using our new tool Scifree.