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.
Training sessions integrated into university courses
Database usage training and consultation
English and Hungarian language training sessions are held in the Autumn semester in the frame of Intensive Week. In these sessions students get information about the library’s printed and electronic sources, academic, statistical and research method databases. Besides these, students are informed about effective use of sources and reference manager software, the importance of source evaluation and the features of scholarly documents. The sessions also introduce the trends of scholarly communication and help students to form their own publication strategy.
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Dissemination of scientific output – training session and consultation
This course is held in the Spring Semester and contains the following topics: Open Access-publishing, publishing policy at CUB, including tenders for publishing support. Sessions develop participant’s writing skills, giving practical tips to write an abstract and create a conference poster.
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Information literacy course
This course targets future lecturers, researchers. Its aim is handing over skills that can help applicants to build a successful career. Included topics are: information literacy and forms of scholarly communication. It is held in the Spring Semester for PhD-Students at the Doctoral School of Business and Management.
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Practical information toolkit for doctoral students
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.
Trainer: Zsuzsanna Nagy
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Information skills for academic success
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.
Trainer: Zsuzsanna Nagy
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Training sessions and group consultations offered by the Library
Scholarly sources, collecting and organinizing documents – consultations in English/Hungarian
This session’s main aim is to inform students with subject-specific sources and search techniques. It gives hints about keeping research up-to-date, collecting and organizing documents with reference manager softwares, using references properly. It helps choosing from different access methods, supports fair use of sources, informs about the different ways of on-demand document requests at CUB.
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Similarity check for students
The Library offers training sessions to provide information on the process of text similarity checking and the application of the Turnitin software. We will introduce the University’s own text similarity checking practice. In the second part we will present the evaluation of the check results.
The training will be held online. Details to join will be shared in an email.
Trainers: Alexandra Horváth digital content developer (alexandra.horvath2@uni-corvinus.hu), Robert Li IT advisor (robert.li@uni-corvinus.hu)
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Zotero for beginners
Zotero – the lifesaver for references – for Beginners
Training session for using Zotero reference manager software efficiently. Join this session, if you:
- want to store all your notes, documents, annotated pdfs at one place
- want to retrieve your stored documents easily
- want to save time and energy to create correct reference list or bibliography.
Thematics:
- word referencing vs. Zotero
- software download, Connector, platform’s structure
- ways of downloading documents, adding notes, etc.
- tips and tricks for efficient use
Bring your own laptop to start using the software immediately.
Trainer: Krisztina Kőrösi E-content reference librarian (krisztina.korosi@uni-corvinus.hu)
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Zotero advanced training
Zotero –Advanced functions
Join this session, if you are over the basic steps and interested in Zotero’s extra functions.
Topics:
- color coding, searching among docs, tags and in pdf-texts
- Zofile – pdf-editor
- My publications
- Scite-plugin, OpenURL, Retraction Watch
Trainer: Krisztina Kőrösi E-content reference librarian (krisztina.korosi@uni-corvinus.hu)
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Artificial Intelligence on Campus: How to Use and When to Ignore Platforms like ChatGPT?
The online discussion will focus on the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, like ChatGPT, from the student’s university life perspective. Every Corvinus University student, from undergraduate to PhD, is welcome to join and discuss how and to what extent one should use AI platforms in their academic advancement and how to do so ethically.
We will notify you about details to join the online training in a later email.
Trainer: Attila Dabis academic writing consultant (attila.dabis@uni-corvinus.hu)
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Trends of scholarly communication, basics of Open Access publishing
The goal of this training is to give an overview of Open Access-publishing. Main points include the basics of OA-publishing, different types of OA, current and recent trends of funding and publishers’ policy. It supports forming your own individual publication strategy and also gives tools, methods to avoid predatory journals. It focuses on CUB’s OA-policy and recent trends of Open Science.
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Bibliometrics in evaluating professional output
This training gives an overview of the basic principles of bibliometrics and the applied metrics. It demonstrates the reference databases, journal evaluation methods, journal rankings and rankings of the different science areas. It helps users to choose from the different publication channels and to form individual publication strategy.
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Authors’ visibility presentation
The Library offers 30-minute presentations in the topic of authors’ visibility. One presentation will be held in English to help English-speaking faculty members and PhD students.
We will provide useful information about personal identification, reseachers’ profiles and authentic data of authors.
Presenter: Erzsébet Lőrinczi
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Personal Consultations
The Library offers individual consultation sessions by appointment.
Further help:
MTMT (Hungarian Scientific Bibliography Database) consultations in English/Hungarian
Authors receive help to record their scholarly publications in MTMT, to avoid difficulties in publication processes. During the consultations patrons will be informed about different metrics, journal rankings, authentic Open Access-journals.
Academic writing consulting
We offer:
- Tailor-made advice, in person or online, through individual consultations on improving a specific manuscript intended for publication (whether it is a paper for an academic journal, a thesis, or other materials).
- Sharing best practices and practical knowledge on avoiding typical writing mistakes and malpractices.
- English and Hungarian proofreading.
- Possible topics for consultations could be, e.g., organisation and structure of a given paper, research problem formulation, elaboration of a proper analytical framework, academic language, style and formatting of the given manuscript, and other issues related to the writing process.
Personal consultation appointments are available based on the individual needs of students.
Consultant: Attila Dabis academic writing consultant (attila.dabis@uni-corvinus.hu)
Zotero hands-on consultation
Zotero – hands-on consultation
If you are over the basics, downloaded the software, started using it but got stuck…. We can help you. Request an individual consultation.
Trainer: Krisztina Kőrösi
Trainer: Krisztina Kőrösi E-content reference librarian (krisztina.korosi@uni-corvinus.hu)
Dates: as per request
Research data management services
A new service offered by the University Library is research data management advice for professors, researchers, undergraduate and PhD students. The new service includes consultation, training, developing an institution-wide FAIR data management policy and strategy, awareness rising and support for FAIR data sharing, data reuse and data archiving.
Our services include:
- providing consultation, training on research data management at any stage of the research,
- providing consultation on personal data protection, anonymisation of data during research and data collection,
- help in applying the FAIR data management guidelines,
- assistance in solving practical problems e.g., developing a data management plan and the use of open-source tools and programmes available online,
- information on security, storage and preservation of research data, choosing appropriate data repositories,
- options related to re-use of data (repositories, copyright issues, licencing, etc.).
Consultant: Erika Kurucz research data steward (erika.kurucz@uni-corvinus.hu)
Research methodology consultation
Individual research methodology consultation is available in the Library (on-line and face-to-face) related but not restricted to the following topics: research design, formulating a research question, choosing a research methodology, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of quantitative and qualitative social science research methods, interview design, interview techniques, research data management etc.
The aim of the consultation is to offer helpful advice to choose the method that is most appropriate and relevant to your research and most suitable for solving your research problem, and also to improve the information literacy competences, data management skills.
Trainer: Erika Kurucz research data steward (erika.kurucz@uni-corvinus.hu)
Dates: Thursdays, 10:00-11:00 or 11:00-12:00