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Research Support: Training and workshops

Library services and resources in support of MUT research

Training, workshops and seminars

Trainings and workshops depends on your postgraduate and research needs, the following trainings are available for training:

  • Introduction to the Library
  • Conducting Literature Review
  • Current Awareness
  • Awareness of Previous Research
  • Plagiarism, Referencing & RefWorks
  • Academic Networking/Researcher Visibility
  • Getting Published
  • Bibliometrics & Research Analysis and Dissemination
  • Technology & Mobile Downloads

Library orientation

The MUT Library offers an introduction to the library facilities, services and resources to postgraduates and researchers.

You have a few options to book your appointment by contacting your Faculty Librarian

Natural Sciences contact Mr. Siya Ncwane

Engineering contact Ms. Noxolo Mpungose

Management science contact Mrs. Khanyi Zungu

Researchers and Postgraduates Ms. Andisiwe Magocoba

Research commons: workshops and seminars

A variety of training programmes, workshops and seminars are presented throuoghout the year to assist in optimal usage of library information resources and research skills.

Some of the topics are:

  • Introduction to the library facilities, services, collections and resources
  • Conducting Literature Review: searching the literature more effectively
  • Ebooks workshop
  • Article search
  • Search strategies
  • Searching online - Library resources vs Google/Google Scholar - what you need to know
  • Primary & Secondary sources
  • Introduction to RefWorks - for beginners
  • RefWorks - for advanced users
  • Current Awareness tools
  • Awareness of previous research: Dissertations & Theses
  • Plagiarism and Creative Commons
  • Getting Published: what you need to know (accredited journals; high impact journals; Open Access journals; Authors guidelines, etc.
  • Author's workshop - conducted by various publishers: Springer, Elsevier, Emerald
  • Academic writing 
  • Academic Networking/Researchers visibility: how to stay connected, find collaboration and promote your research
  • How to find your Unique Author Identifier (ScopusID; ResearcheID; ORCID; Scholar Profile)
  • Bibliometrics & Citation analysis (ranking of researchers and journals/articles; h-index)
  • Research Performance Measurement - SciVal