These free hour-long workshops are designed to provide graduate students with a solid foundation for a successful academic experience.
Spring 2020 Classess
Past classes
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.
Getting Started with Citation Managers
Citations and references, while essential to research and publishing, also consume a lot of your valuable time to store, organize, and format them. Fortunately, a number of tools exist that can help! This hands-on workshop introduces the features of citation management tools so participants starting their research can select the tool that will work best for them. Participants will create an account in Zotero in order to learn common steps for organizing citations and creating bibliographies.
Computers will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to get set up on their computer. (Note: citations added to Zotero can be exported to other citation management tools.)
Getting A Head Start on Using the ETDR Writing Template
Are you preparing to graduate next semester, or maybe you want to just get a bigger head start…this workshop is just for you. The emphasis will be on getting started using the ETDR Template for your electronic thesis, dissertation, or report, which meets the Graduate School's formatting requirements. Use of special features found in Word will also be covered. Some citation management and copyright will be covered. Don't wait until the last minute to learn the ropes on using the template documenting all your hard work.
Retaining Rights to Promote Your Research
Writing and publishing your scholarly work can be an exciting undertaking but also a daunting task. 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 legally and ethically reuse others’ works, all while getting a crash course in copyright.
Discover-Use-Manage: An Overview of Data and its Lifecycle
We all have data, we all need data – whether its text, digital photos, or spreadsheets full of numbers. Learn how to identify, access, evaluate, and use data.
Systematic Reviews: An overview
Have you seen the term systematic review in article titles and wondered what that means? Has your professor asked you to perform a systematic review, and you’re not sure what that involves? Are you curious how they are different from other reviews? If you answered yes to any of those questions, this session is for you. Hear from two science librarians as they define what a systematic review is and discuss the broad steps to conduct one.
Browzine: your ejournals . . . only better
How do you make ejournals better? You make them easier. Browzine is a virtual bookshelf that simplifies the process of finding and reading articles from ejournals. Tables of Contents and pdfs are available for thousands of journals and can be accessed at the speed of a click. The platform also has tools for helping you keep track of which issues you have or have not yet read and for discovering journals to which K-State Libraries subscribes.
Come to this session for a hands-on introduction to this new addition to K-State Libraries' array of productivity and discovery applications. Your ejournal reading will be forever changed.
Starting Your Literature Review in Science
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.
