Master and PhD students

 

Training for new students at the UPF 

1. Digital competence and the Library/CRAI

2. IT resources 

  • Computer rooms, MyApps and printing 
  • Wireless Network: Eduroam 
  • E-mail for students 
  • Office tools: Office 365 and Google suite 
  • Digital identity 
  • Laptop loans service, audio-visual equipment loan service and reservation of technical spaces

​3. Information resources 

  • The UPFinder and the CCUC 
  • The Subject Guides and specialized databases 
  • Copyright, plagiarism and citing of the selected resources 

4. Bibliography manager: Zotero 

  • What is Zotero? 
  • How to import references 
  • Insert citations and generate the bibliography 
  • Share documents and references
     

Training for all Master's students 

  • The scientific publishing 
  • The scientific signature 
  • How to select the journal or publisher where to publish?
     

Training for all PhD students 

1. The scientific publishing

  • The scientific signature 
  • How to select the journal or publisher where to publish?
  • Researcher profiles

2. Open science

  • Initiatives and regulatory framework
  • Publishing in open access
  • Research data. Data Management Plan
  • Open science evaluation

3. The doctoral thesis: how to publish it at the UPF 

  • Support for layout 
  • Authorship statement 
  • Publication in TDX 

4. Dissemination and visibility

  • Social networks

 

  • To use journal rankings systems properly
  • To evaluate and contextualize the information needed critically
  • To redefine search strategies based on the information retrieved and the potentialities of the databases
  • To use the collaborative tools of the bibliography manager Mendeley to share references of a research project
  • Understanding the concept of open science and open acces
  • To know the options to decide where to publish: journals’ policies, main publishers, financing requirements, etc.
  • Understanding how the open access mandates affect a search
  • Identify and recognise the Creative Commons licences
  • Get to know the UPF Digital Repository and how to publish it
  • To manage researcher profiles correctly: ORCID, ResearcherID, ScopusID, Google Scholar Profile

 

Important!
 

Self-training in IT competences is recommended to obtain the advanced ACTIC certificate: the advanced level requires the certification of at least two competences chosen by the candidate from the following: dealing with written information, dealing with graphic, sound and image-based information, dealing with numerical information, dealing with data and content presentation. You must have first attained the intermediate certificate.

This certificate will improve your CV!

It is agreed with the coordinator or director of each master's and PhD program.