Learn how to navigate the services and resources available to students, faculty, and staff through the Spokane Academic Library. This workshop includes an overview of interlibrary loan, the Search It catalog, and Book-A-Librarian. [15.44]
In this introduction to PubMed, you'll learn the basics in finding quality literature to support your research. We will cover My NCBI accounts, MeSH terms, and effective strategies for a successful search. [23:21]
If you're ready to take your PubMed skills to the next level, then attend this workshop to learn how to use the Advanced Search Builder, field descriptions and tags, and the Clinical Queries Tool. [14:58]
My NCBI is a tool that allows you to save searches, apply filtering options, and set up automatic searches that are sent by email. You can also use My NCBI to manage NIH compliance with the Public Access Policy. This workshop will walk you through how to set up a My NCBI account and use these helpful features. [14:49]
Faculty, administrators and staff are often looking for tools to help track college or departmental research output. This active learning webinar will show you how to set up daily, weekly or monthly database email alerts for publications by your college, department, or laboratory. [16:37]
We are living in a time where research output is published in a bewildering mix of open access and subscription journals. Tools exist to help you to both ethically share and acquire research articles, while at the same time assuring the quality of publications. [14:53]
This workshop will demonstrate:
1) ways to avoid predatory open access journals when evaluating or submitting research
2) ethical methods for sharing your research through author self-archiving, and
3) how to obtain one-click article PDFs from your library with new browser extensions.
BrowZine is available for Washington State University students, faculty, and staff. BrowZine helps keep track of
scholarly journals in your subject areas, allowing you to browse, read, save, and export articles on your mobile device. [12:50]
Copyright law matters to many aspects of academic work, from classroom teaching and readings to presentation and publication. The law can be complicated, but you don’t need to be intimidated. In this workshop we will learn and practice basic, practical skills to avoid legal hassles, such as performing a fair use assessment, identifying public domain and Creative Commons-licensed materials, and reading licenses to determine what types of copying and sharing are permitted. [22:46]
Join us for an overview of the bibliographic management tool, EndNote Web. Learn how to organize, import/export, and insert citations using EndNote Web. [24:11]
This workshop will focus on getting scholarly articles and other information sources into your Zotero library. It will also include resources for setting up your Zotero library on your computer. [28:47]
This workshop will focus on getting references out of your Zotero library and into documents. It will also briefly cover Zotero's online presence. [25:02]
Open access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Learn the benefits of open access, how to locate open access literature, and how to publish your research under an open access license. [14:56]
Interested in learning another way to measure research impact scores? In this workshop, the librarians will discuss various tools to measure article-level impacts from social media, download counts, and reference managers. [15:06]
This workshop will introduce Research Exchange, a digital repository that WSU faculty and students can use to preserve and distribute scholarly and educational materials. Learn about Research Exchange and how to use it. [17:46]
Learn the best practices for responsible research data management, including data management planning, organization, documentation, and preservation. [31:52]
There are many datasets available for use online, but locating them can be a challenge. This workshop will show you how to find datasets from government agencies, data repositories, and research organizations. [13.32]
REDCap is a HIPAA-compliant electronic data capture tool that supports good research data management. This is a basic introduction to REDCap surveys and databases; no prior knowledge of REDCap is necessary. [42:00]
RAYYAN is an open access tool that can help organize articles for scholarly reviews (systematic, scoping, state-of-the-art). In this training we will go over the basics of using RAYYAN from importing and exporting to evaluation and many other ways to use this tool. [15.41]
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