PhD students
The Library’s Writing Center supports Corvinus PhD Students in academic success. Courses, training sessions, individual consultations are held either personally or in online form through Teams. Topics focus on supporting information literacy, publishing and publication strategies.
Research support courses
Research Lounge
Ready to take your research to the next level?
Join us for Research Lounge – DSU x Library, a professional event co-organized by Corvinus Library and the Doctoral Student Union, designed for PhD students and early-career researchers.
In this two-part session, we’ll explore:
- The academic publishing landscape
- Research funding opportunities
- How to build an effective research strategy
Date: April 15th, 13:00
Location: Corvinus Library, Aquarium Room
Program:
Expert Talks
Tamás Halm, Editor-in-Chief of Közgazdasági Szemle – Insider tips from a journal editor
Judit Fekete, Head of the Centre for Grants and Projects – Funding opportunities for researchers
Nándor Petrovics, Senior Research Expert & Research Impact Manager – Research strategy insights
Roundtable Discussion
After a short break, we’ll continue with an interactive discussion where you can ask questions and connect with peers and professionals. During the roundtable, there will be experts from different fields, and the list of participants will be announced soon.
Whether you’re preparing your first manuscript, exploring grant opportunities, or looking to strengthen your research career, this event is for you!
„LibCafé” – group consultation
LibCafé will start at 2 p.m. with short Hungarian language presentations.
Topics:
1. Latest news – new sources, new services, MI-novelties etc.
2. All about the h-index –Focus points of the former online presentation – Éva Demecs
Short presentations will be followed by an informal consultation with representatives of the different Library fields with particular attention to these topics:
– Scholarly sources, literature acquisition, library trainings (Krisztina Kőrösi, István Bavalics)
– MTMT, Researcher identifiers, Scientometrics, Open Access, Ensuring visibility, h-index (Éva Demecs, Erzsébet Nyitrai, Ádám Hoffmann)
– Text similarity check of scientific articles (Alexandra Horváth)
– AI in BCE: applications, subscriptions, ethical aspects (Attila Dabis)
That time we are unable to offer personal consultation on the areas University publishing and Research data management due to the absence of the colleagues concerned.
In addition to the above topics, we will try to answer any other questions related to library services, e.g.: training services integration into courses, digitisation service, collaborative projects etc.
Individual consultation sessions about issues listed above and other library services are offered throughout the year.
Date: 28 April, 2025, 2 p.m. – 4.p.m. Library, Aquarium (Lecture room)
We welcome preliminary application, but feel free to join without it.
Presentation
Topics in the Spring session:
- All about the h-index – Erzsébet Nyitrai
- How to calculate it?
- How to increase it?
- What makes it increase and what doesn’t? – Criteria for citing and cited publications
- Why does the h-index in MTMT not catch my results in Google Scholar?
- Predatory conferences: which participation requests should be dismissed! – A case study – Attila Dabis
Recording is available under Recorded sessions.
Recorded sessions
Research support session: h-index, fake conferences – Spring, 2025
Training sessions
Practical information toolkit for doctoral students
The session is held in the Autumn semester, students from all Doctoral Schools can apply. The course aim is to help doctoral students make the first steps in their careers as researchers. It intends to provide guidance in acquiring the knowledge, behaviour, skills and attributes of successful researchers and develop their full potential through their own professional development framework.
At the end of the course students will be able to carry out an in-depth literature search and review, observe and adopt the principles of open access and open science. They will gain some general knowledge about the practices of research data management. They will have an overview of the different models of research assessment and will know and adhere to the principles of academic and research integrity.
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Information skills for academic success
The session is offered primariliy for students of Doctoral School of Business and Management and held in the Spring semester.The course aim is to help doctoral students make the first steps in their careers as researchers. It intends to provide guidance in acquiring the knowledge, behaviour, skills and attributes of successful researchers and develop their full potential through their own professional development framework.
At the end of the course students will be able to carry out an in-depth literature search and review, observe and adopt the principles of open access and open science. They will gain some general knowledge about the practices of research data management. They will have an overview of the different models of research assessment and will know and adhere to the principles of academic and research integrity.
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Individual or group consultation
The library offers individual and small group consultation sessions for CUB lecturers, PhD-students, covering different library fields and services. To consultationany of them please fill in the following form.