The Open University

May 7

'How The Library Can Support Your Research' Webinar (May 2025)

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online

This session will give an overview of the research support services offered by the Library. It will cover open access publishing, Open Research Online (the OU’s research publications repository), research data management, Open Research Data Online (the OU’s research data repository), ORCID and the training offered by the research support team. It will also briefly cover other services offered by the Library including access to online resources and document delivery. The session will signpost where to go for help and support and there will be an opportunity to ask questions.

For further information: 'How The Library Can Support Your Research' Webinar (May 2025) Booking page

May 8

'FAIR's Fair: How to Share Your Research Data' Webinar (May 2025)

Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online

Research data should be made openly available, where possible, and be made FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). In this webinar, we will discuss what the FAIR data principles mean and how you can share your data in a way that meets them.

For further information: 'FAIR's Fair: How to Share Your Research Data' (May 2025) Booking page.

May 22

‘Future-proof your data! Preparing your research data for sharing and preservation’ Webinar (May 2025)

Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online

Research data are precious and should be archived for the long-term to ensure that results can be verified, and data can be re-used in the future. This webinar looks at good practice for preparing data for deposit in a research data repository or archive.

For further information: ‘Future-proof your data! Preparing your research data for sharing and preservation’ Webinar (May 2025) Booking page

Jun 4

'How The Library Can Support You Through Your Research Degree' Webinar (June 2025)

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online

Whatever stage you are at in your research degree, the library can support you – from identifying research gaps, to reviewing literature, to designing an appropriate methodology, to referencing, all the way through to disseminating the final outputs. This session will provide an overview of all the resources and services the OU library can offer you as a research student.

For further information: How the Library Can Support You Through Your Research Degree (June 2025) Booking page

Jun 5

'Using ORDO to Archive and Share Research Data' Webinar (June 2025)

Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online

Funders, publishers and institutions expect researchers to make their research data publicly available. This webinar looks at ORDO (Open Research Data Online), the OU's repository for research data and how it can be used to archive and share research data.

For further information: 'Using ORDO to Archive and Share Research Data' (June 2025) Booking page.

Jun 12

'Literature Searching Series: Part 1 of 3' Webinar (June 2025)

Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online

Where do you look for academic literature? In this session, we will consider literature searching models to formulate an effective search strategy, including scoping your topic and selecting relevant search engines, databases, and other places to look.

For further information: 'Literature Searching Series Webinar: Part 1 of 3' (June 2025) Booking page

Jun 19

'Literature Searching Series: Part 2 of 3' Webinar (June 2025)

Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online

How do you look for academic literature? This session will look at building an effective advanced search by identifying relevant keywords and synonyms, using Boolean operators, utilising search modifiers, and refining results to get relevant results. We’ll be digging though citations and learning how to iterate on past searches to explore the ways of conducting high quality, rigorous academic searches.

For further information: 'Literature Searching Series: Part 2 of 3' Webinar (June 2025) Booking page

Jun 26

'Literature Searching Series: Part 3 of 3' Webinar (June 2025)

Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online

How do you successfully manage hundreds of citations? This session takes you through how to evaluate search results to identify the highest quality resources on a topic and how to manage your citations. We will look at search alerts, how to export search results, and the functionality of reference management software.

For further information: 'Literature Searching Series: Part 3 of 3' Webinar (June 2025) Booking page

Jul 9

'How The Library Can Support Your Research' Webinar (July 2025)

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - 10:00 to 11:00

Online

This session will give an overview of the research support services offered by the Library. It will cover open access publishing, Open Research Online (the OU’s research publications repository), research data management, Open Research Data Online (the OU’s research data repository), ORCID and the training offered by the research support team. It will also briefly cover other services offered by the Library including access to online resources and document delivery. The session will signpost where to go for help and support and there will be an opportunity to ask questions.

For further information: 'How The Library Can Support Your Research' Webinar (July 2025) Booking page