Workshops

Drop-in Workshops

More workshops will be scheduled soon.

Request a Workshop

Students, faculty, and staff can request workshops. Workshops are held in the Library or any room on campus with presentation equipment.

  1. Find at least four individuals committed to attending one of the workshops in the Workshop Menu.
  2. Submit the Workshop Request form.

Contact your subject librarian for individual, smaller group help, or other instruction services.

Have a suggestion for a workshop? Please email Sarah Beasley, Research & Instruction Services Manager.

Workshop Menu

Demonstrate Your Impact
Hands-on Workshop 1.5 hours
Learn to track and communicate the impact of your research contributions in a networked information world. This workshop presents resources for quantitative metrics, including impact measures and citation counts, as well as how to gather qualitative evidence via tools like altmetrics and social media.

Manage Your Research Data
Presentation/Demonstration 1 hour
Hands-on Workshop 1.5 hours

Data management is a vital part of the research process. This workshop outlines the steps for data management, so you can develop good habits early on to help you effectively manage and maintain the usefulness for your research data. Managing your data makes it easier for you (and other scholars) to share and build upon your research in new studies.

Organizing Your Information
Presentation/Demonstration 1 hour
Learn how to efficiently review and manage information of all types. This covers software such as RSS readers, read later programs, note taking and storing applications and citation management software.

Power Searching in PubMed
Hands-on Workshop 1.5 hours
Learn expert tricks for searching PubMed, a database for health and biomedical literature, and get more from your searches. This workshop can cover skills such as: using Medical Subject Headings for power searching, finding data sets, using and managing saved searches, customizing PubMed with your NCBI account, and more.

Research for Thesis & Dissertation Literature Reviews
Presentation/Demonstration 1 hour
Hands-on Workshop 1.5 hours

The literature review is a critical piece of your thesis, dissertation, or research article, providing your readers with context of why your research matters. This workshop will give you strategies and tips for conducting an effective and comprehensive literature review.

Manage Citations with Zotero and Mendeley
Presentation/Demonstration 1.5 hours
Citation management software allows you to download citations and articles from various websites and databases, electronically store and organize the citations, annotate and highlight articles, and format the citations for your paper and bibliography. This workshop covers the advantages and disadvantages of Zotero and Mendeley, helping you decide which one is right for you.

Mendeley
Presentation/Demonstration 1 hour
Introduction to using Mendeley to download citations and articles from various websites and databases, electronically store and organize the citations, annotate and highlight articles, and format the citations for your paper and bibliography.

Zotero
Presentation/Demonstration 1 hour
Introduction to using Zotero to download citations and articles from various websites and databases, electronically store and organize the citations, annotate and highlight articles, and format the citations for your paper and bibliography.
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