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Graduate & Postdoc Workshops @ UCF Libraries

Social Sciences & Graduate Engagement Librarian

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Corinne Bishop
Contact:
John C. Hitt Library (Main)
& Downtown Campus Library
407-823-2584
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Workshop Sessions

 

Each semester the UCF Libraries offer a series of workshops for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers that are presented in collaboration with the College of Graduate Studies. For questions about current sessions or to request workshop sessions, please contact Corinne Bishop, Social Sciences & Graduate Engagement Librarian.

Getting Started Sessions

Finding & Using Academic Sources

This session highlights time-saving strategies to locate sources for upcoming course assignments and literature review projects. Learn how to locate peer-reviewed journal articles, search academic databases, identify related sources, and get tips on maximizing Google Scholar. 

 

Citing and Managing Sources

This session covers citing essentials for academic writing. APA and MLA guidelines and examples for citing direct quotes, paraphrased text, and formatting for in-text citations and references will be shared along with helpful resources and tips on note taking and managing sources. 

Communicating Your Research & Scholarship Sessions

Optimizing Your Online Presence

This session covers evaluating your publishing impacts and managing your online researcher profile. Learn about methods and tools to obtain citation counts and impact data, metrics to assist in identifying key journals and notable researchers, and why it’s important to develop an online profile using sites, such as ORCID, Research Gate, Academia.edu, PIVOT, Plum Analytics, and Google Scholar.

  • Tuesday, 2/28 @ 12-1pm Trevor Colbourn Hall TCH 208 
  • Wednesday, 3/22 @ 12-1pm https://ucf.zoom.us/j/94112008803  
  • Tuesday, 4/11 @ 12-1pm Trevor Colbourn Hall TCH 208 

Citation Management Sessions

EndNote Citation Management

Citation management tools allow you to dedicate more time to research. Join us to learn how to export citations from library databases, organize citations, generate bibliographies, and format citations in a Word document. EndNote can help make managing your references and formatting citations easy. 

 

Zotero & Mendeley Citation Management

Zotero and Mendeley are free citation management tools. Sessions cover steps for getting started and tips to use these tools to organize sources for projects, import citations from databases, save article PDFs, add notes and tags, format in-text citations and bibliographies using Word, and create groups for resource sharing.

  • Please contact Corinne Bishop to request a Zotero or Mendeley session.

Data Sessions

Data Documentation, Analysis & Statistical Software 

Join a statistician and metadata librarian for an introduction to best practices and suggestions for data documentation and analyzing research data. Learn about research data, data sharing, re-use, and long-term preservation. This session also includes real-world examples and a discussion of data tools, such as NVivo, SPSS/SAS/STATA/R.