Welcome to Science week study tip number 3. It's short and sweet today; just to draw your attention to the amazing amount of quality resources on developing your learning skills while you're studying here at Birkbeck.
The Birkbeck Learning Skills and the Library and Information Skills sections on Moodle bring together a great range of resources to help you with different aspects of studying; time management, planning your search for information, how to summarise, paraphrase, quote correctly, managing and using information and much more.
This short screencast shows you how to get to them and gives and overview of what's in them.
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Science week study tip 2: finding books on a topic
It's time for Science week study tip 2. Today we're looking at how to find books on a subject that you're interested in.
Let's say that you went along to the film screening of Resistance and the panel discussion on Tackling antibiotic resistance and the rise of superbugs and you want to find out more about these topics. A good place to start would be the Library catalogue. The following short screencast shows how you can search the Library catalogue to find books on your topic of interest.
We've put together a list of titles of interest based on the topics being discussed during Science week, so take a look:
Let's say that you went along to the film screening of Resistance and the panel discussion on Tackling antibiotic resistance and the rise of superbugs and you want to find out more about these topics. A good place to start would be the Library catalogue. The following short screencast shows how you can search the Library catalogue to find books on your topic of interest.
We've put together a list of titles of interest based on the topics being discussed during Science week, so take a look:
Monday, 3 April 2017
Science week study tip 1: Be organised
Throughout Science Week we'll be posting a study tip each day.
We're starting with being organised.
Study tip 1 on Biteable.
Visit your subject guide for suggestions of study skills resources that could help you be more organised with your study and assignments:
We're starting with being organised.
Study tip 1 on Biteable.
Visit your subject guide for suggestions of study skills resources that could help you be more organised with your study and assignments:
Science Week is here!
From Monday 3 April to Thursday 6 April 2017 Birkbeck's School of Science has a programme of free events. Learn about the latest research in the Biological, Psychological and Earth and Planetary sciences.
As well as going along to the events, you can follow what's happening and be involved, tweet your questions and comments on twitter using #BBKScienceWeek to @BirkbeckScience
Keep an eye out on the book display in the Library for titles relating to the lectures and check out your library subject guides for more information on books relating to the lectures available in the Library.
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
Wellcome Open Research
Wellcome Open Research is an Open Science platform: all articles are published open access; the publishing and peer-review processes are fully transparent; and authors are asked to include detailed descriptions of methods and to provide full and easy access to source data underlying the results to improve reproducibility.
Wellcome Open Research provides all Wellcome researchers with a place to rapidly publish any results they think are worth sharing. All articles benefit from immediate publication, transparent refereeing and the inclusion of all source data.
Wellcome Open Research provides all Wellcome researchers with a place to rapidly publish any results they think are worth sharing. All articles benefit from immediate publication, transparent refereeing and the inclusion of all source data.
How do you use the Library?
Now the library has some new group study space we’re interested in what else you’d like to see happening.
Here’s how you can join in;
- Take us on a tour of the Library and get a £20 book voucher.
– book a time to take us on a tour of the library - Draw us your map of the Library and get a £10 book voucher.
– book a time to draw us a map of your version of the Library - Talk to us about your Library experiences at a focus group and get tea, cake and a £20 book voucher.
– sign up to receive more information
Please download the flyer for more information about the research, if you have any questions please contact the Library Help Desk.
We are able to carry out this research project thanks to the Birkbeck Alumni Fund.
Friday, 27 January 2017
There's a march for Science...
Twitter tells me that there is a March for Science happening across the USA and the world at some point soon. You can find out more at their blog, Facebook , Twitter #ScienceMarch
You can even have a go at knitting a brain hat from @StudioKnitSF to show support, thanks for sharing @JohnDupuis The UK has a presence too if you're keen to be involved @ScienceMarchUK
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