This free workshop will break down how to effectively search for articles, books, and other scholarly works. We’ll cover tracing citations, creating optimal keyword searches, using built-in database functions to improve your searches, and other strategies to make you a more efficient researcher.
Get an introduction to generative AI tools like Chat GPT or the UMN licensed tools like Gemini or Co-Pilot including how these tools work, the pros and cons of using and tips for potentially incorporating them into your research and writing practice. Open to students, staff, instructors, and faculty in all disciplines.
Meet with fellow learners on Zoom and learn how to use Zotero to create your own database of citations, PDFs, images, webpages, video and audio files and more. Zotero can then be used to create citations in a large number of citation styles which can be added to Google Docs, Microsoft Word and Libre Office. We will send a zoom link to students who are registered the day before the workshop.
Are you thinking about publishing a journal article? Feeling unsure about how to go about it? This workshop for graduate students, post-docs, researchers, instructors, new faculty, etc. will provide an overview of the publishing process.
We will cover the basics of: peer review, copyright, types of journals, costs of publishing, and “predatory” journals. It is free and open to all disciplines.
This session will show you how to make the right choice for your research. We will discuss how to identify potential journals and what factors to consider before you submit your manuscript. This workshop for graduate students, post-docs, researchers, instructors, new faculty, etc. It is free and open to all disciplines. We will send a zoom link to those who are registered.
Meet with fellow learners on Zoom and learn how to use Zotero to create your own database of citations, PDFs, images, webpages, video and audio files and more. Zotero can then be used to create citations in a large number of citation styles which can be added to Google Docs, Microsoft Word and Libre Office. We will send a zoom link to students who are registered the day before the workshop.
Rejection is hard! But everyone experiences it (and it's okay to cry!). This session will cover the peer review process—from receiving your first set of peer reviewer comments to becoming a peer reviewer yourself. This workshop for graduate students, post-docs, researchers, instructors, new faculty, etc. will provide an overview of the publishing process. It is free and open to all disciplines.
Are you thinking about publishing a journal article? Have you heard about impact factors, h-indexes, or other metrics used to describe a researcher's work or a journals impact? Do you know what these numbers actually mean? This workshop will explain journal-level and author-level metrics and discuss what they can—and can't say—about the quality of research.
Meet with fellow learners on Zoom and learn how to use Zotero to create your own database of citations, PDFs, images, webpages, video and audio files and more. Zotero can then be used to create citations in a large number of citation styles which can be added to Google Docs, Microsoft Word and Libre Office. We will send a zoom link to students who are registered the day before the workshop.
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