The Library and Your Research Workshops

These free hour-long workshops are designed to provide graduate students with a solid foundation for a successful academic experience.

Spring 2021 Classes

Classes are via Zoom at https://ksu.zoom.us/j/91943796462.

March 29 at 1:30 pm | After Graduation: Accessing Research on the Job

Are you graduating soon? As you transition from K-State, your access to library resources will change. This workshop will review library privileges for alumni and introduce you to research sources available in your next chapter.

Past classes

February 8 at 1:30 pm |Starting Your Literature Review in Social Sciences and Education

Are you preparing a literature review for a paper, article, thesis, or dissertation? This workshop will help! Learn why a literature review is important, how to use K-State Libraries' databases to select articles, how to evaluate the articles and how to organize the review. For this session, article searching will be demonstrated using social sciences and education databases; however, the concepts will be applicable to all disciplines.

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February 15 at 1:30 pm | Research, Rights, Reuse and Retention

Writing and publishing your scholarly work can be both exciting and daunting. This workshop will cover how to understand publisher copyright contracts, your rights as an author and how to potentially retain more of your rights when you decide to publish. Working on a thesis, dissertation, or report? Learn how to reuse your own work in your ETDR or publications and how to reuse others’ works legally and ethically, all while getting a crash course in copyright.

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February 22 at 1:30 pm | Managing Citations and References

Citations and references, while essential to research and publishing, also consume a lot of valuable time to store, organize and format. This hands-on workshop will demonstrate the essentials of citation manager tools and will introduce several different tools before focusing on Zotero. Participants will set up an account and learn some of the common steps to organize citations and create bibliographies.

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March 1 at 1:30 pm | Starting Your Literature Review in the Sciences

Are you preparing a literature review for a paper, article, thesis, or dissertation? This workshop will help! Learn why a literature review is important, how to use K-State Libraries' databases to select articles, how to evaluate the articles and how to organize the review. For this session, article searching will be demonstrated using PubMed, Web of Science, and other science databases; however, the concepts will be applicable to all disciplines.

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March 8 at 1:30 pm | Finding Social Sciences Data Sets

Are you looking for existing data sets for a paper, thesis, or dissertation? Learn about the social sciences data sets available to you through K-State Libraries subscriptions, as well as free, high-quality data sources. This hands-on workshop will demonstrate strategies for locating social sciences data, with an emphasis on the ICPSR data archive.

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March 15 at 1:30 pm | Systematic Reviews: An Overview

Have you seen the term systematic review in article titles and wondered what it means? Has your professor asked you to perform a systematic review and you’re not sure what that will involve? Do you want to know how they’re different from other reviews? If you answered yes to any of those questions, come to this session. Hear from both science librarians and social sciences librarians as they define what a systematic review is and discuss the broad steps in conducting one.

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March 22 at 1:30 pm | Managing Citations and References

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