Graduate Student Research Workshops March 2013 ARCHIVE

 

MU LIBRARIES

Graduate Student Research Workshops

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Wednesday, March 13th   OR   Thursday, March 14th, 2013

                                       WEDNESDAY: Room 213, Electronic Classroom II, 2nd Floor, Ellis Library THURSDAY: All Workshops take place online using BlackBoard Collaborate

Wednesday, March 13, 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. [Rm. 213]            OR            Thursday, March 14, 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.  [ONLINE]

LITERATURE REVIEW & BEYOND: TIPS AND TRICKS FOR RESEARCH — Learn some of the more sophsticated features of database searching to yield the results you want.  Using a variety of databases, we’ll focus on practical techniques that can save you time and effort.

Wednesday, March 13, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. [Rm. 213]          OR             Thursday, March 14, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. [ONLINE]

CREATE BIBLIOGRAPHIES WITH ZOTERO — Zotero is a simple, open source tool for organizing, managing, and formatting bibliographic citiations. Learn to extract citations from PDFs and web pages at the click of a button, and create in-text references and bibliographies.

Wednesday, March 13, 11:30 – 12:30 p.m.  [Rm. 213]          OR             Thursday, March 14, 11:30 – 12:30 p.m. [ONLINE]

PUBMED FOR RESEARCHERS IN THE LIFE SCIENCES — PubMed is the primary journal database for clinical and medical reserch, but it can also be a useful resource for biology and other research areas relating to the life sciences.  This workshop will cover the basics of searching PubMed for the non clinician.

 Wednesday, March 13, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. [Rm. 213]              OR               Thursday, March 14, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.  [ONLINE]

DEMYSTIFYING GOVERNMENT FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES — Government is a key player in education, social work, urban planning, rural sociology, race & gender studies, mental health and public policy.  This session will show you how to find and understand laws concerning your area of study, get analysis on the efficacy of any government program, and reserch the availability of government funding for projects.

  Wednesday, March 13, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. [Rm. 213]            OR               Thursday, March 14, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. [ONLINE]

SUPERCHARGE YOUR ZOTERO LIBRARY USING PAPER MACHINES — Paper Machines is a cutting edge digital humanities toolbox that allows you to analyze large text sets in new ways, including word clouds, phrase maps, topic modeling and more.  Paper Machines is a free, open source extension for Zotero bibliographic management software.

Wednesday, March 13, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. [Rm.213]               OR                Thursday, March 14, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. [ONLINE]

CREATING BIBLIOGRAPHIES WITH ENDNOTE — Endnote is a powerful program for storing citations data and producing in-text citations and bibliographies in a plethora of formats.  Learn how to put this tool to work your academic writing.

 

REGISTRATION for workshops: http://library.missouri.edu/secure/workshops/

Each workshop is limited to 30 students

Questions : Contact Goodie Bhullar, bhullarp@missouri.edu