Lecturers / Researchers

Research support courses

Courses are held in Hungarian, by request, also in English.

Content of courses

Research Infrastructure at CUB

Trainers: Monika Fischer, Krisztina Kőrösi
Planned time schedule: 2 hours presentation + 2 hours consultation

overview of subscribed academic, financial and statistical databases and other reliable scholarly sources available for Corvinus community
hints for choosing access methods
supporting fair use of sources
possible ways of on-demand document requests
tips for keeping research up-to-date, collecting and organizing documents

Recording scholarly publications in MTMT (Hungarian Scientific Bibliography Database)

Trainers: Éva Demecs, Erzsébet Lőrinczi, Judit Tóth, Veronika Vitéz
Planned time schedule: 2×2 hours presentation + 2 hours consultation

overview of authors’ responsibility in recording their own publications
information about Library’s support service
key elements, characteristics of MTMT
international reference databases
use of personal profiles, identifiers
practical hints of usage with a bit of scientometrics

Individual publication strategies

Trainers: Ádám Hoffmann, Zsuzsanna Nagy
Planned time schedule: 2 hours presentation + 2 hours consultations

how to choose a publication channel, journals rankings, metrics, predatory publishers
introducing traditional and new publishing trends (preprint, overlay journals)
review of different evaluations of journals, rankings, metrics
typical signs of predatory publishers and journals, possible ways of evaluating and checking

ASNS – Academic Social Networking Sites, digital repositories

Trainer: Veronika Vitéz
Planned time schecule: 2 hours presentation + 2 hours consultation

characteristics of social networking sites, advantages and disadvantages of use
review of institutional and disciplinary repositories, preprint servers
the role of Corvinus Research Archive in dissemination of knowledge
comparing networking sites with repositories

Open Access publishing

Trainer: Katalin Urbán, Veronika Vitéz
Planned time schecule: 2 hours presentation + 2 hours consultation

principles and types of Open Access
review of funding agencies’ requirements
OA-requirements from publishers’ point of view, finances
national and institutional financial support
practical hints

Academic Writing Training for Researchers

Trainer: Tamás Halm

Need some help with putting the results of your research into excellent Academic English? Join our new Academic Writing for Researchers Training! This 3-part training for PhD students and faculty members of Corvinus university will help you maximize the impact of your research by ensuring that your academic output has a high quality in terms of language, style and structure.

Outline of the training:

Lesson 1 (21st April, 2022, 3pm to 4 pm)
The basics of successful academic writing (relevant topic, clear claim, good structure, clarity, simplicity, audience assessment).
How to use an appropriate style (grammar, vocabulary, text organisation, spelling and punctuation, tone and approach).

Lesson 2 (28th April, 2022, 3pm to 4 pm)
How to have an efficient structure (main claim, thesis and support, arguments and counterarguments, introduction, main discussion and conclusion, acknowledgements, further topics for research, limitations, methodology).

Lesson 3 (5th May, 2022, 3pm to 4 pm)
The different genres of academic writing (peer-reviewed journal article, conference abstract, conference presentation, conference poster): similarities and differences in purpose, structure, style, length and content.

Lesson 4 (12th May, 2022, 3pm to 4 pm)
Technical and visual formatting: page layout and numbering, title hierarchy, font sizes and font type, paragraph formatting, spacing etc. The advantages and disadvantages of word processors (such as MS Word) and document preparation systems (such as LaTeX).

The course will be delivered digitally in Microsoft Teams. The instructor will create a Group for the participants in Microsoft Teams where the classes will take place.

Registration for the training

Academic Writing Consultation

The aim of these consultation sessions is to help members of the Corvinus community (from undergrad to PhD student and lecturer level) in effectively communicating their ideas in writing in an academic setting in the English language. Participants are encouraged to bring drafts of their ongoing writing projects and they will receive expert advice on how to improve their writing in terms of structure, argumentation, style and language. We offer advice on term papers, BA and MA thesis, PhD dissertations, conference abstracts and scientific papers.
The consultation will be delivered digitally in Microsoft Teams. The instructor will call you at the start of the consultation. Please do not forget to send your paper/draft prior to the consultation, as instructed in the email that you will receive after registration.

Registration for the consultation

Training sessions integrated into university courses

The sessions aim at improving searching skills, informing students about printed and electronic materials, academic, statistical and business databases available at CUB. Besides library offered documents we give information about reliable scholarly OA-sources. This session supports conscious and ethical use of scholarly sources, teach students to use references properly, offer reference manager softwares.

Duration: 30-45 minutes. Training sessions are available on this webform. More training sessions are selectable using the same form.