Auburn University Libraries
LibGuides
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
This workshop will teach students how to balance both life and academic responsibilities through effective time management and setting priorities.
**Offered by Academic Coaching. The facilitator will be Hannah Bamigbola.
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
Auburn staff, faculty and students have access to EndNote, a citation management tool to 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
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
Are you confident in your basic search abilities, such as choosing search concepts, finding synonyms and related terms, and using connecting words like AND and OR? Do you want to elevate your search techniques to be more comprehensive and precise?
Join this class to explore advanced search strategies, including truncation, subject headings, field code searches, and mining relevant sources for additional insights. Expand your search proficiency and achieve better results!
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.
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
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.
Skills, students will be able to:
- identify the databases that are important for their field and research topic
- develop most efficient methods for searching databases and locate 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
Learn what is available in SciFinder and Reaxys databases, including visualization tools and discovery portals for compounds. Open to all students doing research with a chemical component. 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: 60 minutes
This workshop is designed to support attendees’ mastery of the ethical foundations of research with human participants. We’ll begin with a brief overview of the history of human research regulations. We’ll then delve into the guiding principles of ethical treatment of humans in research. We’ll conclude by applying these principles to the development of protocols and documents via a tour of resources available in Endeavor.
Time: 60 minutes
Web of Science and Scopus have created AI assistants to help search their resources. These tools are valuable because they are not prone to hallucinating results, and they find specific relevant articles to start research. They also provide a copy of the search strategy that can be copied for a more comprehensive search.
Time: 60 minutes
Generative AI can help you find information more efficiently, but it's important to be mindful of its limitations. This workshop provides an overview of responsible use of AI in a research context and an opportunity for hands-on practice with some of the GenAI tools you may already use. We will also discuss appropriate use of AI in specific scenarios, so you are encouraged to come with questions and examples of your own experiences with GenAI.
Time: 60 minutes
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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
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. .
Time: 60 minutes
Will you be analyzing interviews, focus groups, open-ended survey questions, field notes, or documents in your research? If you answered yes, CAQDAS (Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software) tools can help you. This session will provide an overview of common software features and highlight several tools to consider including NVivo, Dedoose, and Taguette.
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
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
Auburn staff, faculty and students have access to EndNote, a citation management tool to 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
This workshop will teach students how to balance both life and academic responsibilities through effective time management and setting priorities.
**Offered by Academic Coaching. The facilitator will be Hannah Bamigbola.
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
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.
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
Auburn staff, faculty and students have access to EndNote, a citation management tool to 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
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
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