Online courses recommended by the library
Would you like to deepen your knowledge on research related topics? Have a look at these introductions, MOOC (massive open online courses) and videos. Due to time resources, we picked open courses from trusted providers but we did not participate in them so we cannot guarantee their quality. If you took one of these, we’d really appreciate some feedback on the course.
Research Data Management
Courses
- Find different aspects of research data management like how to organize data, how to store and document them in neat online trainings by the University of Edinburgh. Link: https://mantra.edina.ac.uk/
- Research data bootcamp by University of Bristol, short and comprehensive overview of the main issues: https://data.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/bootcamp/
- The Danish e-infrastructure Cooperation provides a neat eLearning course about the importance of good research data management (RDM) https://deic.dk/en/data-management/instructions-and-guides/RDM
- Research Data Management and Sharing course on Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-management) offered by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Edinburgh. Please note that you can audit the course for free (i.e. read and view the course content). However, if you want to have graded assignments and the final certificate, it would be your choice, and you would need to pay it by yourself.
Articles
- Why is research data management important and how can you manage your research data? Check the advice of JISC (UK research support) https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/how-and-why-you-should-manage-your-research-data
- What should be taken in account for a good Excel/LibreOffice worksheet? Find some useful hints in this article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2017.1375989
Open Science
Courses
Find many well-structured and informative classes on the EU Open Science platform FOSTER like these:
- Open Peer Review https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/node/2333
- Research and Data ethics https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/node/2822
- Open Science and Innovation https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/node/2334
- Managing and Sharing Research Data https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/node/2328
- Open Access Publishing https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/node/2331
Please note that you have to register to use these courses.
Videos
- What is Open Science by NIH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wPp-TjtN_U
Copyright and Creative Commons
Videos
- Creative Commons – why you should be familiar with them and how to use them. https://creativecommons.org/about/videos/
Databases and Search Engines
- We do have access to JoVE online education: https://www.jove.com/
- PubMed: Find different online trainings like Quick Tours, Tutorials, Webcasts and Videos, Classes, and Handouts here: https://learn.nlm.nih.gov/documentation/training-packets/T0042010P/
- Google search: Get to know some power searching skills in these online self-paced courses (presented by Google)
EDX Course on Power Searching with Google: https://www.edx.org/course/power-searching-with-google
EDX Course on Advanced Power Searching with Google: https://www.edx.org/course/advanced-power-searching-with-google - BASE search: BASE is a powerful research search engine for Open Access publications provided by the University of Bielefeld. Improve your search results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNO9EC-wjls
Citation Management Tools
Documentation
- Zotero official support documentation: https://www.zotero.org/support/
- Zotero and BibTeX: short pdf guide by MIT on how to use Zotero to produce a .bib file for LaTeX. https://libguides.mit.edu/ld.php?content_id=34248570
- Mendeley and BibTex: short pdf guide by MIT on how to use Mendeley to produce a .bib file for LaTeX https://libguides.mit.edu/ld.php?content_id=34250344
- Mendeley official support documentation with help guides, videos and tutorials: https://www.mendeley.com/guides
- Everything you need (when it comes to reference management): https://ista.ac.at/en/research/library/learn-study/reference-management-softwares/
Videos
- Overview over 5 different reference management tools (Mendeley, Zotero, Endnote, RefWorks and Papers) with advantages and disadvantages of each tool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hx9qY7efgg
- Playlist on Zotero Tutorials https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXt-tu7G1H3vlRXLmGyOzeAp7ZKDK0pty
- How to manage citation references for LaTeX via JabRef https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BziA-hQ2m0M&list=PLNlApBN92PZExDNJ-ErMPkRLx4YboAytH&index=2
- Detailed (long) video about the citation solution Mendeley (by Elsevier – you need to register an account to use the tool) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgg8KiOwHvE&list=PL33FF169764EED2C7&index=20
Author Identifiers
Videos
- What is an ORCID iD and why is it useful? https://vimeo.com/97150912
Data Visualization
Courses
- MIT Open Course on how to handle data and visualize them: https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-6-009-how-to-process-analyze-and-visualize-data-january-iap-2012/
- EDX Course on data science and ethics: https://www.edx.org/course/data-science-ethics
- On this platform you can participate on MOOCs regarding different aspects of data visualization: https://www.my-mooc.com/en/categorie/data-visualization
Videos
- Ted Talk “The beauty of data visualization” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zg-C8AAIGg
- Online-seminar on creating scientific figures (data visualization): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTb7-tRFOkg
- Talk about data visualization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxAqxnbGc8c
