Rise and shine with the library
"Rise and shine" is a series of presentations by the library, mainly for researchers and doctoral students. The presentations are sometimes of a more general nature, such as overviews of particular areas of interest. Others are more concrete, introducing particular functions or processes. However, all of them are meant to be interesting and useful for researchers and doctoral students.
If you can't make any of the times offered, you are welcome to get in touch with the library. We will set up a meeting with you, your research group, or perhaps your faculty. We would be happy to come, so get in touch and we'll plan something together! When you book a presentation, you'll decide if the presentation should be held in Swedish or English. Contact us by email biblioteket@hb.se.
We make the PowerPoint slides available afterward in PDF format whenever possible. The files can be accessed here (OneDrive folder).
Time: 08:15 – 08:35 (with time for questions afterwards)
Zoom: https://hb-se.zoom.us/j/66640642560 (restricted to HB accounts via SSO login, the usual way we sign on to Zoom)
Language: Most of our presentations have English Power Point slides, and will be given in English unless everyone listening prefers Swedish. Please see information for each presentation below, where language will be listed as flexible or Swedish only.
Registration: No registration required
Program Fall 2026
September
Wednesday September 2nd: Choose a Journal - Journal lists, SciFree & Journal Trends
We will take a look at different journal lists and talk about our new tool SciFree for checking open access agreements and the new Journal Trends tool for choosing a journal to publish.
Language: Flexible
Download the calendar event (iCal) for September 2 here.
Wednesday September 9th: PICO, SPIDER or something else?
Are you about to do a literature review and need a framework to plan your information seeking? We take a peak at alternatives to PICO.
Language: Flexible
Download the calendar event (iCal) for September 9th here.
Tuesday September 15th: Peer review week
The Peer Review Week theme of the year is "Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed, and Quality". We will look at what this means for you if you publish or review research.
Language: Flexible
Download the calendar event (iCal) for September 15th here.
Tuesday September 22nd: EndNote Tips
This time we'll show you basic functionalities in EndNote, but also some things you might not know.
Language: Flexible
Download the calendar event (iCal) for September 22nd here.
Wednesday Sepember 30th: Microsoft Copilot in information seeking
Let's check what we can do with Copilot in information seeking.
Language: Flexible
Download the calendar event (iCal) for September 30th here.
October
Wednesday October 7th: How to identify paper mill articles
What are paper mills, and how can you spot their sham articles?
Language: Flexible
Download the calendar event (iCal) for October 7th here.
Friday October 16th: Choosing a journal
How do you find a good journal to publish in? We look at different ways of finding journals, show how you can see if the library has agreements that pay for open access publication, and go through some ranking systems.
Language: Flexible
Download the calendar event (iCal) for October 16h here.
Tuesday October 20th: The Cost of Knowledge
“The Cost of Knowledge” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 19-25).
We create and share knowledge in order to advance human understanding and the common good. We recognize that accessing and sharing knowledge is a human right. Yet, the costs to access and share knowledge continue to increase, often dramatically. Why? Who benefits? (From www.openaccessweek.org).
Language: Flexible
Download the calendar event (iCal) for October 20th here.
Friday October 30th: Horror stories!
It's Halloween and we focus on the scary ways in which research can go wrong.
Language: Flexible
Download the calendar event (iCal) for October 30th here.
November
Tuesday November 3rd: Alternatives to traditional journals
Research should be published in journals - or should it? Today a few for-profit companies have a monopoly over academic publishing, which makes it worth to know about the other options that exist.
Language: Flexible
Download the calendar event (iCal) for November 3rd here.
Tuesday November 1oth: Publication ethics
Today's Rise and Shine deals with different kinds of publication practices, such as plagiarism, paper mills, and predatory publishers, and how to fight them.
Language: Flexible
Download the calendar event (iCal) for November 10th here.
Tuesday November 17th: Reference managers
Learn more about the best ways to manage your references.
Language: Flexible
Download the calendar event (iCal) for November 17th here.
Wednesday November 25th: Digital Tools for Research
We will take a look at some current digital tools for research.
Language: Flexible
Download the calendar event (iCal) for November 25th here.
December
Wednesday December 2nd: CoARA & Research Data
Vad är CoARA? Och hur funkar det med bibliometri och forskningdata när CoARA kommer in i bilden? Det ska vi reda ut under dagens Rise and Shine.
Language: Flexible
Download the calendar event (iCal) for December 2nd here.