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Written by Liv Bjerge Laursen and Thomas Basbøll

This fall, CBS Library will once again offer a course for PhD students and early-career researchers who wish to boost their research skills. The course was well-received by the participants in the pilot-run in spring

It is a practical course that presents a range of skills and tools that are useful in social science research. Using a hands-on practical approach, the course will show how these tools can be used to make life easier and have an impact on your discipline.

Topics covered: research

• Scholarly writing 
• Literature searching and reviewing 
• Research data management 
• High-performance computing 
• Qualitative data analysis with NVivo 
• The publishing process 
• Journal selection and impact 

Who is teaching the course
The course faculty are all CBS Library staff with many years of experience with the methods and resources covered in the course.   

Format 
The course will run for a full week in November (14-18). We meet from 9 to 16 every day, with a one-hour break for lunch. Throughout the week, topics will be introduced and then revisited after you have had a chance to try out the ideas on your own. There will be plenty of opportunities for discussion and experimentation.

Assignments
The course involves four short writing assignments and four other small preparatory exercises. You should expect about four hours of work outside class meetings during the week. 
 Facilities for working on the exercises will be available both before and after class meetings, and we suggest that you spend about 30 minutes on each assignment.

Detailed descriptions, schedule, and signup

If you are not a PhD student yourself, please feel free to recommend the course to a PhD student or early-career researcher near you.

Written By Claus Rosenkranz Hansen

In week 43, the Danish Network for Open Access will be hosting 10 free webinars on Open Access – sign up via link below.

Article Processing Charges (APC), preprint servers, Creative Commons licenses, and predatory publishing. This is just a small fraction of the new terminology that has accompanied developments in Open Access, and both researchers and students risk getting lost in the lingo.

For that reason, the Danish Network for Open Access has decided to contribute to the 2022 International Open Access Week with 10 one-hour webinars that can help shed light on and demystify Open Access.  

The webinars will discuss Open Access in the context of datasets, books, Creative Commons licensing, and preprints, and whether you are new to research or a seasoned scholar, you will find out how to make your research open and available and comply with Open Access requirements from funders.

The webinars will take place on October 24 – 28 and registration is free.

Topics covered are:

• A Basic Introduction to Open Access 
• Plan S and cOAlition S: policies and tools for full and immediate Open Access 
• How to open your data responsibly 
• Rights Retention Strategy 
• What’s open about Open Science Platforms for university-industry collaboration? The case of ODIN 
• Open Access and Creative Commons 
• Putting researchers in control: Preprints as a versatile tool for open science 
• DOAJ: What is it – why are we important? 
• Open access in practice
• ”Scholarly monographs should also be Open Access, shouldn’t they?” – Guidelines and tools to making books Open Access

Check out the Danish Open Access Week 2022 programme and register right here her

About the Danish Network for Open Access

The Danish Network for Open Access is made up of professionals from Danish educational institutions who work with research dissemination as well as operational and developmental issues pertaining to Open Access. The Danish Network for Open Access operates independently of stakeholder organizations and projects/funding.

Contact: Claus Rosenkrantz Hansen, crh.lib@cbs.dk

Written by Mette Bechmann

ResearchRabbit is one of a handful of literature mapping tools that have emerged in recent years and offer alternative ways to identify connections between papers than more traditional tools such as Scopus and Web of Science. 

How to use it
Set up collections of 3-4 (or more) seed papers, i.e. core or interesting papers in your field. ResearchRabbit will then chart connections within the body of literature that your papers belong to and in turn display similar, earlier, and later works and suggest authors. 

How it works
ResearchRabbit uses bibliographic coupling, co-citation, and shared authorship to generate suggestions. The coupling strength of two documents increases with the number of citations to other documents they share, and co-citation occurs when two papers are cited together. The more co-citations, the stronger the connection between papers. 

Sharing and collaborating
It is very easy to share and collaborate on collections of papers, whether with a single colleague or an entire research team. Simply add e-mails and set permissions for each collaborator. 
Users of Zotero, a reference management software, can connect their accounts to ResearchRabbit and download references to seed papers from there. Stay clear of confirmation bias – maybe it would be just as useful for you to set up a collection of papers that disagree with your favorite papers and then explore the networks that unfold from them. 

Want to know more?
ResearchRabbit uses MAG data (Microsoft Academic Graph). For a comparison of traditional and more recent academic search engines, see Martín-Martín et al., 2021

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Check out ResearchRabbit.

Written y Joshua Kragh Bruhn

Due to a parade of GDPR issues, pre-submission text similarity screening of manuscripts destined for publication has been unavailable at CBS for the better part of the past two years.

Although the issues to some extent persist, CBS has managed to come up with a new and pragmatic solution that allows us to resume screening without compromising any personal and sensitive data.

The new procedure requires the removal of author names, organizational affiliations, and other personal identifiers from manuscripts before they are submitted for screening to ithenticate@cbs.dk.

A dedicated screening team will undertake the screening process itself and share the ensuing report with the author/team of authors, who will then be able to make the relevant adaptations before submission to a publisher. The screening team will of course be at hand to help decipher reports, if necessary.

For CBS authors/researchers who used iThenticate before it was discontinued at CBS, the biggest change lies in the centralization of the screening process. They will no longer be able to screen under their own steam and with a personal password but will have to submit the modified manuscript to ithenticate@cbs.dk.

Want to know more, please reach out to ithenticate@cbs.dk

Written by Liselotte Brandstrup

A number of your colleagues have already given fascinating talks about core CBS research areas.  

We still have some exciting talks to look forward to this fall when Mogens Bjerre & Tilde Heding, Flemming Poulfelt, Mette Skovgaard Andersen, Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, and Sara Louise Muhr will join us in CBS Library Forum.

Get inspired - see the programme

Written by Camilla Boelsgaard Lund

Due to the current energy situation, CBS Library has decided to close access to the library at night temporarily. As a result, starting on 1 October, you will no longer be able to gain access via the night entrance at Solbjerg Plads with your key card. 

Check out the revised opening hours