Research Essentials

ACU Library’s Research Engagement team are running their Research Essentials skills sessions again in 2025.

Researchers and HDR students are encouraged to keep an eye on the Library training and events page and sign up to any and all sessions of interest.
In response to feedback, many of our sessions have been broken into shorter sessions, focusing on a single concept. All are delivered online and will be recorded. All sessions listed are in NSW/ACT/VIC time zones.

You can view previous Research Essentials sessions here.

Read and publish agreements for ACU authors

Learn about read and publish agreements which aim to make your research more open.

  • Friday 14 February 1:30pm-1:45pm (AEDST)

Research data management

These sessions will focus on planning how you manage your research data throughout your project, looking at your sensitive data and how to make your data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).

  • Research Data Management Planning - Friday 21 February, 1pm-2pm (AEDST)
  • Sensitive Data and Storage - Friday 28 February, 1pm-2pm (AEDST)
  • FAIR Data – an action-based approach – Friday 7 March, 1pm-2pm (AEDST)

Systematic reviews

If you are about to start a systematic review or are wanting to structure your search, these sessions can assist you.

  • Preparing for your systematic review - Wednesday 10 March, 10am-11am (AEDST)
  • Systematic searching - Thursday 20 March, 11am-12pm (AEDST)

Metrics

Metrics help you measure your research performance and attention and are useful in grant submissions and applications for promotion.

Metrics 100 will look at metrics for journals, authors and articles.

  • Metrics 1.1 Journal metrics - Tuesday 22 April, 1pm-1:30pm (AEDST)
  • Metrics 1.2 Author metrics - Wednesday 23 April, 1pm-1:30pm (AEDST)
  • Metrics 1.3 Article metrics - Thursday 24 April, 1pm-1:30pm (AEDST)

Metrics 200 will review who is citing your work, as well as benchmarking using InCites and SciVal.

  • Who’s citing your work? - Wednesday 7 May, 1pm-1.30pm (AEDST)
  • Benchmarking in InCites - Thursday 8 May, 1pm-1.30pm (AEDST)
  • Benchmarking in SciVal - Friday 9 May 2025, 1pm-1.30pm (AEDST)

Measuring research impact will look at how to demonstrate your impact beyond citation metrics. This is useful for all researchers, but particularly for those in HASS disciplines

  • Friday 16 May 2025, 1pm-1.45pm (AEDST)

EndNote for thesis writing

Learn to organise and prepare your EndNote library as you work on your thesis. This session is best suited for users who are familiar with EndNote.

  • Tuesday 6 May, 10am-11.30am (AEDST)

Researcher profiles week

This week is about your researcher profile across a wide range of platforms including:

  • ORCID - Tuesday 10 June, 1pm-1.15pm (AEDST)
  • Web of Science - Wednesday 11 June, 1pm-1.15pm (AEDST)
  • Scopus - Thursday 12 June, 1pm-1.15pm (AEDST)
  • Research Bank and Google Scholar - Friday 13 June, 1pm-1.15pm (AEDST)

Book your session from the Library training and events page.

Contact the library if you have any question.


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