Workshops, Tutorials, and Guides

In-person Workshops

View a list and register for a free face-to-face workshop on topics such as citation managers (RefWorks, EndNote, Zotero), research strategies, Google, and more.

Tutorials and Recorded Workshops

We have a number of tutorials or recorded workshops which offer convenient ways to learn more about the Libraries and academic research strategies.

• Introduction to the Libraries & First Year Writing
• Finding and Evaluating Information
• Research Tools
• Reading Scholarly Articles
• Organizing and Citing Research
• Communicating Research
• Plagiarism
• *NEW* Searching for Grant Funding
• *NEW* Using the Libraries in Your Teaching & Moodle

Introduction to the Libraries & First Year Writing

• Intro to Library Research [mobile]
• Guide to University Libraries for International Students--English (PDF) or Chinese (PDF) or Korean (PDF)

Finding and Evaluating Information

• Searching MNCAT Plus for Books and More (PDF)
• Google: Advanced Searching for Researchers (46 min) [Handouts in Moodle]
• Scholarly vs. Popular Periodicals (from Vanderbilt University)
• Intro to Library Research
• Patents and Patentability and Patent Searching
• Web of Science: Research Made Easy (48 min) [Apple mobile device]
• Researching & Writing the Literature Review (1:57 min)

Research Tools

• Assignment Calculator
• Google: Increasing Productivity and Collaboration (50 min)
• Web Tools for Working Collaboratively (53 min) [Apple mobile device]
• Tricks of the Trade: Conducting Efficient Library and Web Research (1:26 min)
• Dissertation Calculator

Reading Scholarly Articles

• Quick Tutorial on Reading Scientific Papers from Purdue University
• Anatomy of a Scholarly Article from North Carolina State University

Organizing & Citing Research

• *NEW*Mendeley: Get Organized (72 min)
• Introduction to Data Management for Scientists and Engineers (40 min)
• Introduction to Citation Managers (17 min) [mobile]
• What are Citations?
• Refworks Basics: Part 1 (24 min) [mobile]
  Refworks Basics: Part 2 (19 min) [mobile]
  [Handouts in Moodle]
• Zotero: Basics (58 min) [mobile] [Handouts in Moodle]
• EndNote: Basics (62 min) [mobile] [EndNote: Introduction to EndNote in Moodle]

Communicating Research

• Getting Published: How to Publish Your Science Research Article (1:40 min)
• Open Access Publishing: Making Your Work Available to the World (17 min)
• Formatting Your Dissertation in Microsoft 2007 Part 1 (53 min)
  Part 2 (45 min) [Handouts in Moodle]
• Creating Posters in PowerPoint
• *NEW*Effective Poster Design Elements
• *NEW*Effective Poster Design Judging Exercise

Plagiarism

• Preventing Plagiarism (from University of Minnesota Center for Writing)
• How to Recognize Plagiarism: A Tutorial (Indiana University)

Searching for Grant Funding

• *NEW*Grant Funding for Graduate Students (45 min)

Using the Libraries in Your Teaching

• *NEW*Leveraging Archival Materials into your Course (50 min)
• *NEW*Moodle: Integrating Library Resources (PDF)
• *NEW*How to Create links to articles for Moodle or other course sites (2 min)

If you have any questions about workshops, please contact Kate Peterson (katep@umn.edu).