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ONLINE: Introduction to Zotero

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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.

Free

ONLINE: Data Snack: How to select a repository for data sharing

Virtual Event

Both funders and journals frequently require data sharing, but selecting the data repository in which to place your data is a vast and often confusing process. This session will walk you through a tool to help you select a repository and alert you to policies and repository characteristics you should be aware of before depositing your data.

Free

Libraries Mission Brief: Overview for Veterans workshop

Virtual Event

In this 45-minute workshop you will meet other veterans on campus, learn tips and tricks from military-affiliated Libraries staff for doing research for papers and projects, accessing library materials, and getting help when you are off-campus. The workshop is free and open to all current and former military students. 

Free

ONLINE: Navigating Different Review Methodologies – An Introduction to Evidence Synthesis

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It is important to choose the right type of synthesis for your research questions. In this workshop, learn about various review methodologies like systematic reviews, scoping reviews, rapid reviews, and other types of evidence syntheses.

This introductory workshop, designed for graduate students but open to all who are interested, will help you determine the best review type for your research question and point you to resources and tools for completing an evidence synthesis project. Open to all disciplines and graduate student levels.

Free

ONLINE: Data Snack: current state of federal open access requirements

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In 2022, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memo requiring that all federal funding agencies implement policies for immediate sharing of publications and data for their grantees by December 31, 2025. The Department of Energy and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have already implemented this requirement. What does this mean for data management practices during the lifecycle of your research project? What must you write into a grant application? How do you know when and where to share your publications and data? All of these topics and more will be explored in this session.

Free

ONLINE: Tools and tips to avoid plagiarism (and what about Chat GPT!?!)

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This online workshop will help you understand what plagiarism is and some of the most common mistakes that students make. We will also talk about Chat GPT, Microsoft Co-pilot, Google Gemini and other AI tools, what they do and how to think through using them (or not).

Free

ONLINE: Introduction to Zotero

Virtual Event

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.

Free

Libraries Mission Brief: Overview for Veterans workshop

Virtual Event

In this 45-minute workshop you will meet other veterans on campus, learn tips and tricks from military-affiliated Libraries staff for doing research for papers and projects, accessing library materials, and getting help when you are off-campus. The workshop is free and open to all current and former military students. 

Free

ONLINE: BrowZine and Alerts – Keeping Up with Research

Virtual Event

Have trouble keeping up with the new research in your field or research topics? Learn how to use BrowZine, a free Libraries provided tool to create your own virtual reading room of your favorite journals. Read articles on your mobile device or iPad. You’ll also learn how to set up database and journal alerts to keep up on published scholarship in your field. Open to all disciplines.

Free

ONLINE: Research Project Management

Virtual Event

We will discuss different project management strategies and explore various tools for tracking project progress and staying on task.  While discussion will draw on traditional project management ideas, skills, strategies, and methods, they will be adapted to better fit the academic research project environment. This workshop is great for those at any stage in the research project process.

Free

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