Are you a new graduate student at Auburn University? Do you need a refresher on library services available to you? Learn about online research help, document delivery, interlibrary loan services, and library spaces geared to scholarly research, collaboration, and productivity (including the Libraries’ new Innovation & Research Commons) Come with questions if you have them!
Time: 60 minutes
In this workshop students will identify and incorporate time management skills, create confidence in managing priorities, and explore methods to increase self-efficacy.
Offered by Academic Coaching. The facilitator will be Tracy Parsons
Time: 60 minutes
Are you struggling with reading academic articles? Would you like to use a tool that will help connect you to academic reading communities? Hypothes.is social annotation tool is freely available and can be used to help you organize your ideas, pose questions, and offer contributions to scholarly literature without leaving the text you’re working in. This 30 minute session introduces you to the tool, helps you create an account and connect, and offers guidance on using social annotation with scholarly literature.
Time: 30 minutes
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use and open access citation management tool that helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. In this workshop, you'll learn how to download Zotero, register for an account, import and organize your sources, use the built-in PDF editor, and create a formatted bibliography. We'll also practice using the Write and Cite feature that allows you to easily add citations and bibliographies from Zotero to Microsoft Word and Google Docs.
Time: 60 minutes
Auburn staff, faculty and students have access to EndNote, a citation management tool that will help you collect, cite, and share your research sources. In this workshop, you will learn how to download and register for an EndNote account, import and organize sources, create a formatted bibliography, and use the Cite While You Write feature with Microsoft Word.
Prior to this workshop, please visit AU Install to download and install EndNote X21 on your computer.
Time: 75 minutes
Do you or your collaborators use Mendeley Reference Manager? Come with any questions about how to use the web library, troubleshooting needs such as the integration with Word, or how to migrate your Mendeley library to another reference manager such as Zotero or Endnote.
Time: 30 minutes
This workshop is for graduate students who are starting work on a proposal or literature review for their thesis or dissertation. The session will focus on general research strategies and library resources for identifying and locating scholarly sources in your field. During the workshop, we will compare the Libraries' Discovery service vs. subject databases and will focus on how to track down sources, using resources such as scholarly reviews, Dissertations and Theses Global and Web of Science. Time will be allotted for hands-on researching of your topic.
Time: 90 minutes
Do you need to complete an evidence synthesis, but aren’t sure how to begin? This workshop examines the explicit steps that scholars take to complete a systematic or scoping review*. In addition, you’ll learn about differences in review types, and where to find additional resources and services to help with the evidence synthesis process.
*Systematic and scoping reviews are not just literature reviews done systematically, instead they are formal research studies that seek to first identify, through a systematic and comprehensive search, all relevant literature answering a research question, then analyze, synthesize, and present data from all studies included in the review.
Time: 60 minutes
Covidence is software which can help streamline the screening and data extraction tasks of an evidence synthesis project such as a systematic or scoping review or a meta-analysis. This workshop will cover setting up a Covidence account, creating a review, importing sources, screening at both title/abstract and full text, and creating a data extraction template.
Prerequisite: It is recommended that you have previously taken the Intro to Systematic Reviews or Evidence Synthesis - Part 1, Overview workshop or have previous experience with completing an evidence synthesis project.
Time: 60 minutes
Boolean operators are helpful for conducting efficient and focused research. This workshop provides an explanation of Boolean operators and a demonstration of how to employ them when using library databases and other resources for conducting research.
Time: 30 minutes
This session focuses on the database Engineering Village (Ei Compendex) which indexes engineering and technology journals, monographs, and conference proceedings from 1884 to present. Using this database, one can conduct both current and historical research of the scholarly literature in engineering.
Time: 60 minutes
This interactive workshop will introduce you to basic operations in two chemistry databases: SciFinder and Reaxys. Chemistry, chemical & biomedical engineering, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, biochemistry, nursing, agriculture, forestry, and other health sciences graduate students are welcome to enroll. No previous experience in using these databases is required.
**NOTE: It is neccessary to create a SciFinder account before class and you must have the AU VPN downloaded to use SciFinder off-campus. Before the workshop, visit this page, https://libguides.auburn.edu/scifinderweb, to create your SciFinder account and download the VPN.
Time: 75 minutes
With a literature review for a thesis and dissertation in mind, this session will introduce the standard scholarly databases that cover scientific research studies in agriculture and biology. We will demonstrate keyword searching in CAB Abstracts, and Web of Science for locating research journal articles and reports. We will also briefly cover searching of Dissertations and Theses Global. We will dedicate some time to researching of your individual topic.
Students will be able to:
- identify the databases that are important for their field and research topic
- develop efficient methods for searching databases and locating relevant literature
-save articles and searches, set up search alerts, and export articles
- navigate the library website, databases, catalogs to locate information and services, such as Inter-Library Loan (ILL) and AUBIExpress Document Delivery
Time: 60 minutes
Graduate level research sometimes includes the need to identify and locate legal information. This workshop provides a basic overview in using the Westlaw database to locate state and federal laws and state and federal court opinions including those of the Supreme Court.
Time: 60 minutes
The HathiTrust Digital Library is an interdisciplinary resource that includes published works in agriculture, biological sciences, engineering, history, and languages and literatures along with patents, NASA, and other government documents. Get full text access to millions of books and journals that are in the public domain.
Time: 60 minutes
Are you interested in exploring Humanities research using digital tools and methods, but you don’t know where to start? Come to this workshop to learn more about different types of digital humanities approaches, DH project planning, and the value of user-centered design in creating a successful project proposal and impactful final project.
Time: 60 minutes
AI can make your research more efficient, but it’s important to use it mindfully. This workshop will cover ways you can apply Auburn’s instance of Bing Chat and another tool, Research Rabbit, in your work. We will also discuss the responsible use of AI in research, so you are encouraged to come with questions
Time: 60 minutes
Are you curious about how R* programming can help streamline your data manipulation? This interactive, hands-on session will expose participants to working with the dplyr and tidyr packages in R's tidyverse to efficiently prepare and perform basic operations on a wide variety of datasets. This course is available to ALL participants- no prior R programming knowledge is necessary.
*R is a free and open-source programming language originally developed for statistical analysis. Its popularity has led to the growth of a worldwide community of users and multiple applications. R can run on Windows, MacOS, and Linux computers. Scholars in particular appreciate its contribution to reproducible research, but it is also employed by data scientists in the private sector.
***Please note that if you would like to use your own laptop during the session, prior installation of both R and RStudio software is required. Free downloads of both programs are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. Assistance with installing these programs is available by dropping in either in-person or Zoom with an AU Libraries DataSpace consultant. Consultant availability can be found at this link: https://libguides.auburn.edu/dataspace
• R can be downloaded through the CRAN repository at this link: https://cran.r-project.org/
• RStudio IDE (Open Source Edition) can be downloaded through the developer website at this link: https://posit.co/products/open-source/rstudio/
Time: 60 minutes
Scientific data often requires preparation before it is ready for analysis. Learn about file naming conventions, file formats, data typing, import and export functions, version control, building a reproducible workflow, and best practices for collaboration. Specific attention will be given to best practices in moving data between computers, programs, and formats.
Time: 60 minutes
NVivo is a software package that aids researchers in tagging portions of their data with qualitative codes for further analysis. This session is hands-on, and students will progress through a series of activities designed to showcase how to work with projects, data files, codes, and memos. The course will focus on how to use software features to perform a basic qualitative analysis.
NOTE: Due to a limited number of licenses, the session will be capped at 6 individuals. Students are asked to inform us as soon as possible if they are unable to attend as there is likely to be a waitlist.
Time: 90 minutes
Do you need software that will help you make data visualizations for your research? Come to Introduction to Tableau for a tour of the basics for this industry-standard software for data analytics. We’ll work together to make a first visualization to learn the ropes of importing data, selecting the right type of chart, and designing an effective visualization.
Time: 75 minutes
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use and open access citation management tool that helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. In this workshop, you'll learn how to download Zotero, register for an account, import and organize your sources, use the built-in PDF editor, and create a formatted bibliography. We'll also practice using the Write and Cite feature that allows you to easily add citations and bibliographies from Zotero to Microsoft Word and Google Docs.
Time: 60 minutes
Auburn staff, faculty and students have access to EndNote, a citation management tool that will help you collect, cite, and share your research sources. In this workshop, you will learn how to download and register for an EndNote account, import and organize sources, create a formatted bibliography, and use the Cite While You Write feature with Microsoft Word.
Prior to this workshop, please visit AU Install to download and install EndNote X21 on your computer.
Time: 75 minutes
Do you or your collaborators use Mendeley Reference Manager? Come with any questions about how to use the web library, troubleshooting needs such as the integration with Word, or how to migrate your Mendeley library to another reference manager such as Zotero or Endnote.
Time: 30 minutes
In this workshop students will identify and incorporate time management skills, create confidence in managing priorities, and explore methods to increase self-efficacy.
Offered by Academic Coaching. The facilitator will be Tracy Parsons
Time: 60 minutes
This workshop aims to impart techniques and strategies for proficiently comprehending and composing literature reviews. Participants will be instructed on effectively organizing their thoughts and producing articulate, precise, and captivating literature reviews while grasping the significance of narrative structure and employing appropriate transition words and phrases. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to increase their confidence in crafting literature reviews through practical exercises involving the analysis of the structure found in a sample scholarly article.
This workshop is offered by University Writing. The facilitator will be Souji Gopalakrishna Pillai.
Time: 60 minutes
This workshop is for graduate students who are starting work on a proposal or literature review for their thesis or dissertation. The session will focus on general research strategies and library resources for identifying and locating scholarly sources in your field. During the workshop, we will compare the Libraries' Discovery service vs. subject databases and will focus on how to track down sources, using resources such as scholarly reviews, Dissertations and Theses Global and Web of Science. Time will be allotted for hands-on researching of your topic.
Time: 90 minutes
Do you need to complete an evidence synthesis, but aren’t sure how to begin? This workshop examines the explicit steps that scholars take to complete a systematic or scoping review*. In addition, you’ll learn about differences in review types, and where to find additional resources and services to help with the evidence synthesis process.
*Systematic and scoping reviews are not just literature reviews done systematically, instead they are formal research studies that seek to first identify, through a systematic and comprehensive search, all relevant literature answering a research question, then analyze, synthesize, and present data from all studies included in the review.
Time: 60 minutes
Covidence is software which can help streamline the screening and data extraction tasks of an evidence synthesis project such as a systematic or scoping review or a meta-analysis. This workshop will cover setting up a Covidence account, creating a review, importing sources, screening at both title/abstract and full text, and creating a data extraction template.
Prerequisite: It is recommended that you have previously taken the Intro to Systematic Reviews or Evidence Synthesis - Part 1, Overview workshop or have previous experience with completing an evidence synthesis project.
Time: 60 minutes
This session focuses on the database Engineering Village (Ei Compendex) which indexes engineering and technology journals, monographs, and conference proceedings from 1884 to present. Using this database, one can conduct both current and historical research of the scholarly literature in engineering.
Time: 60 minutes
This interactive workshop will introduce you to basic operations in two chemistry databases: SciFinder and Reaxys. Chemistry, chemical & biomedical engineering, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, biochemistry, nursing, agriculture, forestry, and other health sciences graduate students are welcome to enroll. No previous experience in using these databases is required.
**NOTE: It is neccessary to create a SciFinder account before class and you must have the AU VPN downloaded to use SciFinder off-campus. Before the workshop, visit this page, https://libguides.auburn.edu/scifinderweb, to create your SciFinder account and download the VPN.
Time: 75 minutes
With a literature review for a thesis and dissertation in mind, this session will introduce the standard scholarly databases that cover scientific research studies in agriculture and biology. We will demonstrate keyword searching in CAB Abstracts, and Web of Science for locating research journal articles and reports. We will also briefly cover searching of Dissertations and Theses Global. We will dedicate some time to researching of your individual topic.
Students will be able to:
- identify the databases that are important for their field and research topic
- develop efficient methods for searching databases and locating relevant literature
-save articles and searches, set up search alerts, and export articles
- navigate the library website, databases, catalogs to locate information and services, such as Inter-Library Loan (ILL) and AUBIExpress Document Delivery
Time: 60 minutes
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use and open access citation management tool that helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. In this workshop, you'll learn how to download Zotero, register for an account, import and organize your sources, use the built-in PDF editor, and create a formatted bibliography. We'll also practice using the Write and Cite feature that allows you to easily add citations and bibliographies from Zotero to Microsoft Word and Google Docs.
Time: 60 minutes
Auburn staff, faculty and students have access to EndNote, a citation management tool that will help you collect, cite, and share your research sources. In this workshop, you will learn how to download and register for an EndNote account, import and organize sources, create a formatted bibliography, and use the Cite While You Write feature with Microsoft Word.
Prior to this workshop, please visit AU Install to download and install EndNote X21 on your computer.
Time: 75 minutes
Do you or your collaborators use Mendeley Reference Manager? Come with any questions about how to use the web library, troubleshooting needs such as the integration with Word, or how to migrate your Mendeley library to another reference manager such as Zotero or Endnote
Time: 30 minutes
Learn to manage references and bibliographies, add images, and create tables in your LaTeX** document. Prerequisite: Introduction to LaTeX workshop or basic working knowledge of LaTeX.
This workshop works best with a laptop or desktop screen.
**LaTeX is a document preparation system used for the production of scientific and technical publications. Examples of the types of documents that you can create with LaTeX include articles, presentations, lab reports, and other homework assignments.
Time: 60 minutes
In 2022 and 2023, the US Office of Science, Technology, and Policy issued several new policies that affect the processes of applying for and publishing research products supported by federal funding. First, a researcher submitting a proposal must have a unique digital persistent identifier (ORCID ID). Not only does an ORCID ID distinguish you as an individual, it also reduces administrative burdens and enhances research security and integrity. Second, researchers are required to make their data open to the public. Third, researchers must make their publications or other creative products instantly freely available. This workshop will provide an overview of why these policies are in place and how to follow them.
Time: 60 minutes
Explore Adobe Creative Cloud Express, a web-based app that allows everyone to create beautiful graphics, web stories, generative AI art, and video. Practice searching Adobe Stock-- free, high-resolution images for use in your projects. Also explore Adobe Premiere Rush for video creation and editing.
Adobe ID required; set up ID at least 24 hours before the session, available to students for free at http://adobe.auburn.edu. Use a computer with Rush installed to join in (see OIT help documentation for assistance). Access Adobe’s free resources that will empower you to use more powerful apps such as Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro
NOTE: This session has a minimum attendance requirement. If the minimum is not met 2 days before the session, you will be notified so you can select another session if needed.
Time: 60 minutes
Do you need software that will help you make data visualizations for your research? Come to Introduction to Tableau for a tour of the basics for this industry-standard software for data analytics. We’ll work together to make a first visualization to learn the ropes of importing data, selecting the right type of chart, and designing an effective visualization.
Time: 75 minutes
Learn some of the basic functions of LaTeX** in order to create technical and scientific documents using mathematical expressions. In this workshop, you will learn to set up a basic document in LaTeX and learn basic commands for equations and mathematical expressions. This workshop works best with a laptop or desktop screen.
**LaTeX is a document preparation system used for the production of scientific and technical publications. Examples of the types of documents that you can create with LaTeX include articles, presentations, lab reports, and other homework assignments.
Time: 60 minutes
Learn to manage references and bibliographies, add images, and create tables in your LaTeX** document. Prerequisite: Introduction to LaTeX workshop or basic working knowledge of LaTeX.
This workshop works best with a laptop or desktop screen.
**LaTeX is a document preparation system used for the production of scientific and technical publications. Examples of the types of documents that you can create with LaTeX include articles, presentations, lab reports, and other homework assignments.
Time: 60 minutes
This class will demonstrate how to convert text to three different graphical representations using maps, timelines, and comparison infographics. You will practice making an infographic using PowerPoint or Google Slides.
This blog posting (https://venngage.com/blog/9-types-of-infographic-template/#8 ) shows some of the topics that will be covered. This workshop is most suitable for students in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Time: 60 minutes