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Dissertation Festival recordings from previous festivals

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29:57

Dissertation Festival : How to use the library remotely for your dissertation

Created by Christine Love-Rodgers

This session aims to help you access the library resources and services you need to work on your dissertation remotely. Find out about the full range of servic

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16:58

Using the Library for Your UG Dissertation

Created by Sanjna Yechareddy

Using the Library for Your UG Dissertation
Sanjna Yechareddy

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16:37

Library Bitesize: Using the Library for your Postgraduate Dissertation

Created by Alex Smith

This short presentation will help you develop a better understanding of the resources that the Library offers to help postgraduate students with their dissertations or final projects.

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28:17

Finding Digitised Special Collections (Dissertation Festival 2021)

Created by Francesca Baseby

This online presentation discusses the different ways you can find digitised rare books, archives and manuscripts online.

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45:46

Getting Started with Special Collections

Created by Angela Nicholson

Special Collections (archives, manuscripts and rare books) can be a rich source of material for your dissertation but can sometimes feel daunting to use. This

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01:23:59

Study Resources for Literature Reviews

Created by Rowena Stewart

Recording of Study Resources for Literature Reviews run under the Digital Skills and Training programme and during The Library's Autumn Dissertation Festiva

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35:08

Dissertation Festival: Introduction to literature searching for your dissertation

Created by Caroline Stirling

Being able to undertake effective literature searches is an important part of your dissertation or final year project. Knowing the strategies and tools with whic

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44:37

What is a Systematic Review dissertation like? (Dissertation and Thesis Festival)

Created by Marshall Dozier

Updated presentation on 23 October 2024

This presentation covered:

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33:13

Building complex searches for systematic reviews

Created by Marshall Dozier

Presentation date: 28 October 2024

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34:42

Using EndNote for systematic reviews (Dissertation Festival)

Created by Marshall Dozier

This webinar covers functions in EndNote (desktop version) that can help you manage your search results and save time with key stages of the systematic rev

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39:49

Introduction to Ovid Medline (Dissertation Festival)

Created by Ruth Jenkins

This recording of a Dissertation Festival session provides an introduction to searching for literature on Medline using the Ovid interface. Medline is a database

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19:41

Publishing your journal article

Created by Marshall Dozier

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47:02

Using the Library for creative dissertations : digital resources in art, music and drama

Created by Christine Love-Rodgers

Are you planning your dissertation in a creative subject? Find out more about the rich range of digital library resources available to you in the visual arts, musi

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31:14

Dissertation Festival: Using digital historical newspaper archives

Created by Caroline Stirling

Newspapers can be an valuable resource when researching your dissertation topic. They can be useful to find out about key events, places and people. They

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20:10

Using Current News Sources (Dissertation Festival)

Created by Angela Nicholson

News sources can be used to answer a range of research questions. This session will introduce the online news sources available either for free or via the Libr

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50:32

Dissertaion festival: introduction to NVivo for qualitative data analysis

Created by Marshall Dozier

This session covered:

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16:45

Library Bitesize: Patents Literature - an introduction to finding patents literature

Created by Jenny Lauder

Library Bitesize talk on finding and accessing patents literature, covering some of the various search tools available for finding patents, patent applications and prior art.

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17:21

Library Bitesize: Standards literature - an introduction to finding and accessing standards documents

Created by Jenny Lauder

Library Bitesize talk, providing an introduction to finding and accessing standards documents.

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41:48

Gale Primary Sources for your dissertation - Archives and Platform

Created by Caroline Stirling

The University of Edinburgh has access to a fantastic collection of primary source archives from Gale, covering centuries of content. Including, historical news

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48:37

How to get the best from CABI resources (Dissertation Festival)

Created by Marshall Dozier

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50:38

Covidence for systematic reviews - top tips (Dissertation Festival)

Created by Marshall Dozier

Presenters: Thulani Ashcroft and Kayla Ostrishko
See Attachments for a copy of the presentation slides

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36:59

JoVE

Created by Fiona Brown

JoVE, the Journal of Visualised Experiments (https://www-jove-com.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/) is an online educational resource, available to students and staff in the

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49:00

How Clarivate Web of Science can help with your Literature Review

Created by Angela Nicholson

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22:26

Library Bitesize : Finding Theses

Created by Christine Love-Rodgers

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43:46

Managing the literature in systematic reviews (Dissertation Festival)

Created by Marshall Dozier

Updated presentation on 2 Nov 2022

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Covidence beyond the basics (Dissertation Festival)

Created by Marshall Dozier

Presented by Ghida Iskandarani, Covidence Community Manager

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