The Library provides training to assist students and staff in using the library and its databases. Training sessions can be arranged for individuals or groups. We want to encourage our academics to organise training sessions for their students.
Types of Training
Undergraduate Training
Contact your Information Commons Librarian if you would like to arrange for a training session in any of the following:
- AGLA Walk in course -English / Afrikaans
- Library Orientation
- Where to begin with an assignment
- Copyright & Plagiarism
- Training of undergraduate students in database searching, referencing and bibliographic management
Postgraduate Training
Contact your Faculty Librarian if you would like to arrange for a training session in any of the following:
- Training of staff and graduate students in database searching, referencing and bibliographic management
- Searches on Nexus and ProQuest Theses & Dissertations
- Interlibrary loans
- Copyright & Plagiarism
Research and Open Scholarship Training
Contact your Research and Open Scholarship Librarian if you would like to arrange for a training session in any of the following:
- EndNote
- Postgraduate MS Word Template
- ORCID
- DMPTool
- Impact factors, Altmetrics, Bibliometrics, H-index
- Everything I need to know about journals before I publish (e.g. in which journal to publish, guidelines for authors when submitting a journal article)
- Self-submission of research output on Boloka (NWU Institutional Repository)
- Using DaYta Ya Rona
- Research Data Management
Training Material
Training Calendars
Undergraduate Library Training:
Training Evaluation Forms
- EndNote training evaluation form
- Library training evaluation form
- Referencing training evaluation form
