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.
Training Material
Training Calendars
Types of Training
Undergraduate Training
Contact your Faculty Librarian if you would like to arrange for a training session in any of the following:
- Information literacy walk-in course
- Training undergraduate students in database searches, and how to avoid plagiarism using NWU referencing techniques.
Postgraduate Training
Contact your Faculty Librarian if you would like to arrange for a training session in any of the following:
- Database searches
- How to avoid plagiarism using NWU referencing techniques and the use of Reference Management Tools.
- Understanding bibliometrics and altmetrics.
- Setting up an ORCID and other researcher IDs to enhance research impact. (In collaboration with ROSS.)
- Selecting appropriate journals for publication. (In collaboration with ROSS.)
- Providing author guidelines for journal article submissions. (In collaboration with ROSS.)
- Copyright and plagiarism
- Facilitating Interlibrary/Intercampus Loans.
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:
- Accredited Journals: Choosing a Journal for Publication.
Everything you need to know about journals before I publish (e.g. in which journal to publish, guidelines for authors when submitting a journal article) - Creating an ORCID.
- DaYta Ya Rona (figshare)
- EndNote
- Google Forms
- iThenticate
- MS Word Postgraduate template
- Open Access - Transformative Agreements.
- Research Impact
- Research Data Management
- Utilizing tools like DMPTool and other data analysis tools.
- Social Media - Strategies for promoting research on social media platforms.
- Presenting - Best Practices
- Self-submission of research output on Boloka (NWU Institutional Repository)
