These free hour-long workshops are designed to provide graduate students with a solid foundation for a successful academic experience.
Fall 2021 Classes
Classes are via Zoom.
Meeting ID: 972 1521 5176
Passcode: 045293
Sept 13 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.
Sept 20 at 1:30 | 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.
Sept 27 at 1:30 pm | Rights and Reuse in Research: A Primer
Writing and publishing your scholarly work can be both exciting and daunting. This workshop will provide a crash course on the fundamentals of copyright law, and help you understand rights from the perspective of the user and the author.
We will cover how to interpret publisher copyright contracts/expectations and discuss licensing models. As we explore your rights as an author you will learn how to retain more of your rights when publishing and how to reuse your own work in your publications.
We will also discuss how to reuse others’ works legally and ethically and explore some tools for both making decisions about what content to use and for finding content that is easily reusable.
Oct 4 at 1:30 pm | Understanding Academic Publishing
Whether you are thinking about publishing your work or already have, this workshop is for you. Come hear from the librarians from the Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship and New Prairie Press as they pull back the curtain on academic publishing and the lifecycle that powers how scholars communicate.
Using the information covered in the workshop “Rights and Reuse in Research: A Primer” as a foundation, they will discuss how to find journals for your work; ways to spot and stay away from predatory publishers; how to (legally) share your work after you’ve published, including in your electronic theses, dissertations, and reports (ETDR); what an ORCID ID is and why you should get one; and whether you should embargo your ETDR.
Oct 11 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 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.
Oct 18 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.
Oct 25 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.
Nov 1 at 1:30 pm | Evidence Synthesis: An Overview for Non-Health Sciences Researchers
Evidence synthesis refers to a range of methods that researchers use to identify, analyze, and synthesize the results of multiple studies. Learn about types of evidence synthesis, such as scoping reviews and systematic reviews, and the steps involved in an evidence synthesis project.
Librarians who work with social sciences and sciences students and faculty will discuss what you should know before embarking on an evidence synthesis project.
Nov 8 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.
Nov 15 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.
