About Rise and Shine with the library
Since the autumn of 2022, the library offers a weekly 20-minute presentation on different subjects relevant to researchers and doctoral students.
In Zoom every week during the semester
"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.
We come to you!
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.
Current program
You can find the program for Rise and Shine here:
Rise and shine with the library
Previous presentations
Complete programs for all Rise and Shine presentations to date can be found here.
Autumn 2023
Discover Scite!
Come and learn about a new tool: Scite. Discover a tool for literature reviews, peer assessments, and student paper evaluations which employs newest AI technology. The library is currently offering a trial period enabling you to test Scite and its features.
H-index and other indicators – what do they mean?
Indicators like H-index and Impact Factor are common when describing researchers and researchers. But what do they really mean?
Plan and write a DMP for a research proposal
This Rise and shine focuses on writing a DMP for a grant applications. We look at some research funders' demands for DMP.
What is Altmetrics?
Altmetrics is a new way of measuring how popular and influential research articles are by looking at things like social media posts, downloads, and online discussions, instead of just counting how many times they're cited in other articles. What kinds of Altmetrics are there, how do I find them, and what do they mean?
Get started with Zotero
Zotero is a free software for reference management and this short introduction will focus on demonstrating its basic features. It's quick and easy to use and helps you collect and organize sources that you've found in databases or while browsing the web. Use Zotero to insert references direct to your text document and create automatic literature lists using the reference style of your choice. Download Zotero here: https://www.zotero.org/download/
Library support before applying for research grants
Join us for an presentation that puts the spotlight on how our library can support your research funding journey.
Find and manage full texts with EndNote
Use EndNote's built-in features to find and attach PDFs of articles in your reference library. You can also batch import PDFs and let EndNote find the reference data.
Discover data journals!
Data journals provide a platform to publish and share you datasets, potentially unlocking their potential for collaboration and innovation. Join us this morning to learn more about data journals.
AI and Information seeking
We talk about how you can use ChatGPT when searching for information, and what you should avoid when you are using AI in you information seeking process.
Community over Commercialization
We explore this year's Open Access theme with a Rise & Shine about some alternatives to the for-profit publishing model. We'll also look at examples of what happens at journals where demands for increased profits clash with academic ideals regarding making research accessible.
Explore research landscape with literature mapping tools
There are a number of tools to help you map your research area. This rise & shine focuses on some of these.
Repositories to publish research data
Data repositories are for making your dataset openly available so that others can reuse them for another purpose. How to find them and which to trust?
Who owns your article? On copyright and creative commons licenses
Publishing licenses are what decide if and how authors can put a PDF of their paper on Researchgate, or reuse an article in a book or thesis. This presentation will give a quick overview of what rights are transferred from the author to the publisher when signing a Copyright Transfer Agreement, and how the different Creative Commons licenses (used for Open Access articles) work.
The future of open access publishing
Since 2017, the Swedish Bibsam Consortium, which includes the University of Borås, has been allocating more and more funds to establish agreements with publishers that includes not only reading but also open access publication of articles. This is a way to accelerate the transition from closed publishing to open access, but it has proven to be an expensive solution for higher education institutions. On October 4th, the report "Sweden's Path Beyond Transformative Agreements - Analysis and Proposal for Strategic Direction" was released, suggesting a national strategy for more sustainable and long-term solutions. This Rise & Shine provides an overview of the proposal and how it may impact researchers at the university.
Database showcase – ASTM, Knovel and MaterialConnexion
Database presentations for researchers within the areas of engineering, materials- and textile technology. We will give a short demonstration of the following three useful resources and how to make the most of them in your work: ASTM, Knovel och MaterialConnexion.
Systematic literature review – a brief introduction
Systematic literature reviews have become increasingly popular in recent years. But what, exactly, are they? We look at relevant concepts and discuss the literature review process. This will be a quick introduction to something that can be both extensive and complicated.
Christmas research
What do researchers study when they research Christmas? Join us for a brief and light-hearted exposé on various questions that have emerged and trended within Christmas research over the years. We won't be particularly systematic in our overview, but hopefully we'll all be a little more enlightened about Christmas by the time these 20 minutes have passed.
Spring 2023
Journal finders
Journal finders are like matchmakers for manuscripts: they help authors find relevant journals to publish their research in. In this Rise and shine you'll get an overview of both publisher-owned and independent journal finders.
Pearl Growing - Finding more information using the best article
If you’ve found an interesting article that is relevant to your research, we show you how you can use it to find more publications within the same research area.
Analyze yourself - or someone else
In the citation databases Scopus and Web of Science you can make different kinds of publication and author analyses. You can get insights into your own or your research group's publications, or those of a potential collaborator.
Retrieving data. Wait a few seconds and try to cut or copy again.
There are a number of tools to help you map your research area. This rise & shine focuses on some of these.
Get to know DORIS
We can register metadata about our research projects and research data in DORIS. Come for a walkthrough with the library!
Repositories for publishing research data... for different areas.
Looking for somewhere to register metadata for your research data? The library offers an introduction to a few different repositories.
Get Started with EndNote
Have you considered starting using the reference manager EndNote? This is a short introduction to what EndNote is and what it can help you with.
Questionable publishing
The scientific publication model is undergoing many changes, which has led to rogue actors appearing. How do you avoid the pitfalls of publishing in suspicious journals? The library guides you!
The information search process - target and plan your information search
Get a grip on the information search process! We share strategies and tools, from the preliminary exploration of a field to a comprehensive "final search".
Sharpen your search skills with boolean logic
Having problems getting relevant search results? Learn effective search strategies.
Vem äger din artikel? Om copyright och creative commons licenser.
Publishing licenses are what decide if and how authors can put a PDF of their paper on Researchgate, or reuse an article in a book or thesis. This presentation will give a quick overview of what rights are transferred from the author to the publisher when signing a Copyright Transfer Agreement, and how the different Creative Commons licenses (used for Open Access articles) work.
H-index and other indicators - what do they mean?
Indicators like H-index and Impact Factor are common when describing researchers and researchers. But what do they really mean?
Read & Publish agreements: when do you have to pay to publish?
The library pays for agreements with publishers covering many thousands of journals. This means there's a good chance you can publish an article with open access without having to pay. But when and how can you use the agreements, and when might you have to pay? This Rise and Shine session will explain that and more!
Manage your research data
Part of open science is the requirement to systematically describe and manage research data during the research process. During this presentation we go through some examples of data management plans that help describe and manage research data.
Refer correct – avoid plagiarism
This Rise and shine focuses on references so you can avoid plagiarism. How to refer correctly? What are some of the different ways and what do the references tell us? Come and listen!
How do you find information that doesn't exist?
No problem! The library helps you with interlibrary loans.
Autumn 2022
In autumn 2022, most Rise and Shine presentations were given on two separate occasions.
Open Science in 20 minutes
The open science movement aims to make research processes more transparent and inclusive, and ensure that research data can be re-used. The library gives a short presentation on the implications of open science for researchers and the research process.
Publisher licenses from © to CC
All scientific publications get a license. It's becoming more common to be asked to choose between different options. The library explores what the different letter combinations (e.g. CC BY, CC BY-NC) mean, and clarifies the difference between © and CC.
Manage your research data
Part of open science is the requirement to systematically describe and manage research data during the research process. During this presentation we go through some examples of data management plans that help describe and manage research data.
Find and manage full texts with EndNote
Use EndNote's built-in features to find and attach PDFs of articles in your reference library. You can also batch import PDFs and let EndNote find the reference data.
Visualize your research
With the software VOSviewer, you can create maps of your research area. All you need is publication data downloaded from one of the library’s databases. With the software, you can visualize collaborations within a research field, map often used terms, or look at how researchers cite each other.
Collaborate on EndNote libraries
How do you share your reference library in EndNote with colleagues? We look at shared folders and shared libraries, and the difference between the two options.
Publication lists from DiVA
Learn the best ways of using DiVA for putting together publication lists for yourself, your research group, or a particular area of research.
Sharpen your search skills with boolean logic
Having problems getting relevant search results? Learn effective search strategies.
Register you publications in DiVA
It is the end of the year, and it is time to ensure this year's publications are in DiVA. Refresh your registration skills with the library.
Read & Publish agreements: when do you have to pay to publish?
The library pays for agreements with publishers covering many thousands of journals. This means there's a good chance you can publish an article with open access without having to pay. But when and how can you use the agreements, and when might you have to pay? This Rise and Shine session will explain that and more!
Fool's Science - and other jokes in research
The scientific publication model is undergoing many changes, which has led to rogue actors appearing. How do you avoid the pitfalls of publishing in suspicious journals? The library guides you!