The University Library offers freestanding courses for staff and students at UiO. These are courses held in English. To find all the freestanding courses, please see the Norwegian overview.
Academic writing for Doctoral Students at SV
This two-day workshop will be an opportunity to reflect on central challenges of academic writing, with focus on the process of writing and techniques for producing and organising text.
Carpentry: Training on foundational coding and data science skills
At University of Oslo (UiO), Carpentries workshops based on Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry lessons are offered to facilitate sharing and re-using of code and data among graduates and researchers from all faculties and units.
CodeRefinery: FAIR research software development and management
Do you want to learn about best practice on research software development and management to ensure reproducibility of your research?
Critical appraisal of articles
The aim of the course is to equip you with knowledge and skills to critically appraise methodological quality of an article and is aimed at PhD-students, master students and other interested in the topic at the University of Oslo, and Oslo University Hospital.
EndNote - staff, phd candidates and master students at HF, SV and UV
This three hour course gives an introduction to the reference tool EndNote.
EndNote for medicine and sciences
This course gives an introduction to the reference management software EndNote.
Interdisciplinary tools : Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar
This course gives an introduction to literature searching in interdisciplinary reference databases such as Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar.
Introductory course in Illustrator for PhD candidates at MN
This course gives an introduction to Adobe Illustrator.
Methods and tools for better search techniques
This course is designed for PhD Candidates and others who need a deeper knowledge, and advanced skills in literature searching within medicine and health sciences.
OA-publishing and research visibility
Keep copyrights to your own work by publishing in Open Access journals. Find out your research impact. The course gives you practical support in publishing process and making your research visible.
Open and reproducible research
More and more researchers across disciplines are preregistering their hypotheses, methods, and analysis plans before they collect or analyze the data to increase research transparency and visibility. This course will give an introduction to preregistration and a step-by-step guide on how to do it yourself.
PubMed : Efficient searching for journal articles
The course is an introduction or refresher on how to search for scientific journal articles in PubMed.
Research data
Good research data management is increasingly important for scholars around the globe, and the University Library provides courses on key concepts as a part of the Skills Development for Research Data project.
Systematic literature searching for medicine and health
If you are going to map the literature on a topic, write a grant application or a systematic review, you will need a systematic literature search.
Transkribus: AI-powered text recognition of historical documents
Transkribus is a comprehensive platform for the digitisation, AI-powered text recognition, transcription, and searching of historical documents. In this workshop you will get a demonstration of Transkribus and learn how you can use this tool in your research.
Zotero for medicine and sciences
This course gives an introduction to the reference management software Zotero. The course is held in Zoom.
Zotero referencing program
An introduction to Zotero for all levels. Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.