Courses for researchers

The library offers sessions, courses and workshops on a number of topics. In addition to the scheduled sessions and workshops listed below, research groups, institutes and faculties are welcome to get in touch and invite us to their meetings. We can also tailor courses for you. We look forward to cooperating with you further. 

HVL Library Talks 2026

16 September	Main types of literature reviews
23 September	Ethical issues in academic writing
30 September	The publishing process and publishing ethics
7 October	The Norwegian publishing system
19-25 October	Open Access Week: Open Science 1: An introduction to Open Science and Open Data Publishing Open Science 2: Open Access publishing, copyright and licences
28 October	Challenges to the publishing landscape: Predatory journals, hijacked journals, paper mills
4 November	Artificial intelligence in the research process
11 November	Artificial intelligence in systematic reviewing
18 November	Keenious
25 November	Authorship

Topics we offer

• Resources for researchers: Google Scholar, Publons, Scopus, Web of Science, Research Gate
• Orcid and author (researcher) id
• Literature searching: Where to search and how to do it
• Literature reviews, protocols and screening
• Reference management: Building your own article archive 
• Open publishing of research data
• Academic writing
• The Vancouver recommendations for authorship
• The publishing process (publication channels, peer review)
• Open Access / APC - can I apply for funding? Must I?
• Plan S
• The Cristin system and publication points
• Research evaluation: Norwegian publication indicator, citations, journal impact factor, H-index
• Academic integrity: predatory publication channels, self-plagiarism
• Copyright to your own academic work and our institutional rights retention policy 

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