These free hour-long workshops are designed to provide graduate students with a solid foundation for a successful academic experience.
Past Classes
Managing Citations and References
Citations and references, while essential to the research and publishing, can also consume a lot of your valuable time storing, organizing, and formatting them. This hands-on workshop introduces 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.
Watch the recording (Passcode: =#2@&rMn)
Starting Your Literature Review in the Sciences
Are you preparing a literature review for a paper, article, thesis, or dissertation? This workshop will help you! 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.
Watch the recording (Passcode: x&hM5uBC)
Managing Citations and References
Citations and references, while essential to the research and publishing, can also consume a lot of your valuable time storing, organizing, and formatting them. This hands-on workshop introduces 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.
Watch the recording (Passcode: sGK8?*Xw) | View the powerpoint presentation (pdf)
Research, Rights, Reuse, and Retention
Writing and publishing your scholarly work can be an exciting undertaking but also a daunting task. An understanding of the foundations of copyright can reduce stress when writing and completing your ETDR (Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Reports). This workshop will cover the basic principles of U.S. copyright and provide a framework for answering copyright questions. Learn how to reuse your own work in your ETDR or other publications, and how to legally and ethically reuse others’ works. We will also cover how to understand publisher copyright contracts, your rights as an author, how to retain more rights when publishing, and the basics of embargoing your work when submitting your ETDR.
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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 you! 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. Watch the recording (Passcode: @sL3mK+7) | View the powerpoint presentation (pdf)
