Information Literacy

Information Literacy Training and Workshops

For registered students, externals, and other stakeholders, KUHES Libraries provide a variety of Information Literacy training and workshops. This page describes workshops and events designed to help our researchers achieve their teaching, learning, and research objectives. These Library Training and Workshops can be requested by completing the Ask Librarian form.

What We Offer

Training/Workshop Title Library Campus
Choosing a Research Topic and Doing a Review Literature
This training outlines a process for selecting a research topic, narrowing the topic down to a specific research question, and carrying out literature review. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Search Google and Google Scholar
This training outlines effective searching techniques when using Google, Google Scholar, and other Google resources. It also provides tips linking to full text using Research4Life, and for evaluating search results. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Managing References [Mendeley or Zotero]
This training provides an overview of a range of freely available and other tools researchers can use to manage their references, such as Mendeley and Zotero. The purpose is to assist researchers in deciding which service is appropriate for their specific needs. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Keep Up to Date on Your Research Topic
This training will cover strategies and tools that can be used to help researchers stay up to date with the published literature in their topic. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Managing and Sharing Research Data
This training addresses the critical issues involved in managing research data as well as the overall benefits of adhering to best practices in this area. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Writing a Data Management Plan (DMP)
This training increases knowledge of research data management and provides practical skills for writing data management plans. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Academic integrity
Academic integrity is the commitment to and demonstration of honest and moral behaviour in the classroom. This is especially important at the university level because it pertains to giving credit to others when using their ideas and work by acknowledging their contributions. Academic integrity training covers topics like plagiarism and citation, as well as copyright and fake news. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Effective Publishing Strategy
The training covers publishing and delves deeper into journal publishing. It also examines how researchers can maximize the impact of their research through a variety of means, including collaboration, increasing discoverability and visibility, and communicating, promoting, and monitoring research output. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Using Open Access (OA) Routes to Increase Research Impact
This training covers the open access environment, its drivers, and how researchers can use the various open access routes to make their research output more visible and citable. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Institutional repository
The training explains how an institutional repository boosts the visibility of research outputs by making them freely and globally accessible. It walks researchers through the process of uploading research outputs to an institutional repository, discusses library services associated with depositing research into an institutional repository, and describes the processes and workflows for submitting research outputs to a repository manager. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Increasing Your Research Visibility
This training explains the advantages of creating a researcher profile and introduces the primary research identifiers. It also delves deeper into ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), an internationally recognized, free, and essential tool for author disambiguation. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Social Media for Research
Social media platforms are becoming increasingly important as tools for disseminating research, discovering new publications and ideas, and conversing with other researchers. This training introduces academics and researchers to a variety of popular and useful social networks. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Introduction to Bibliometrics
This training will give you an overview of what bibliometrics is, how to use metrics correctly, and what their limitations are. It is intended for those with no or little prior knowledge of the subject and explains the most commonly used author metrics (e.g., citations, field-weighted citation impact, h-index) as well as the tools that can be used to calculate them. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Make Your Academic Work Count
This training clarifies common sources of confusion about metrics, describes types of impact, introduces core metrics concepts, and explores sources of metrics. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Open Education resources
This training covers a variety of freely available research resources as well as specialist search engines, tools, and resources for locating theses, freely available articles, books, images, newspapers, statistics, and datasets, among other things. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis
This training covers Systematic Reviews and Meta analyses as reliable methods for reducing bias in the collection, summarization, presentation, interpretation, and reporting of research evidence. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Evidence Based Medicine/ Health Practice
This course is designed to teach clinicians and other healthcare professionals evidence-based practice (EBP) skills that will allow them to conduct extensive evaluations of existing literature to improve patient care. The program provides a comprehensive overview of EBP as well as the components required for EBP implementation in a clinical setting. It is intended to concentrate on the skills required to critically evaluate information derived from research findings and professional consensus statements. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
Writing a Manuscript
This training workshop introduces the publishing process, as well as tips for writing an abstract, introduction, methodology, data presentation, discussion, and conclusion. The training sessions also cover topics such as declaration and referencing styles. 		Lilongwe campus

Blantyre campus
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