Library Guides: Recordings and Tutorials: Workshop Recordings

Do This, Not That!

Do This, Not That! Stories of Poorly Managed Data
Presented by Christopher Eaker, Assistant Professor and Digital Librarian, University of Tennessee Libraries

This presentation will expose problems a researcher may encounter when research data is poorly managed, including examples of actual situations when poor data management led to serious problems with data loss, research integrity, and worse.

Core Collection Training
Duration: 1h 1m

An introduction to the Web of Science Core Collection and how to search it.
Web of Science: Core Collection Site

Advanced Training
Duration: 1h 7m

This session focuses on cited reference searching, Journal Citation Reports (impact factors and journal rankings) and Essential Science Indicators (the most influential individuals, institutions, papers and publications).
Web of Science: All Databases

Data and Statistics

Measuring Research Impact: Citation Metrics and Altmetrics (Fall 2015)
Learn about sources for times cited counts.
Altmetrics: Alternative Metrics for Measuring the Impact of Research (Spring 2015)
This workshop will introduce you to current altmetrics tools and how they’re being used to demonstrate the value of research.
FRED and Family: Economic Data and Information (Fall 2014)
Learn how to use FRED, GeoFRED, and ALFRED to locate, map, graph, and save economic data.

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Special and Digital Collections

Teaching with Primary Sources in Special Collections (Fall 2015)
This workshop is an in-depth look at enriching student learning through hands-on access to historical collections and primary sources. We’ll provide an overview of the collections, assignment ideas, and best practices for integrating Special Collections into student work.
MOspace Digital Repositories (Fall 2015)
The MU Libraries hosts two digital repositories that support teaching and research at MU.
Primary Sources in Government Documents for Instruction and Research (Spring 2015)
Learn about how primary sources at MU Libraries can help with meeting instructional goals and assist with research. Librarians from the Government Documents and Special Collections departments will introduce collections and strategies for using them in your teaching and research.
Exploring the HathiTrust Digital Library (Fall 2014)
The HaithiTrust Digital Library contains millions of digitized books from libraries around the world. Learn how you can use this resource to download books, build collections, and use analytical tools to mine the contents of this large body of texts. This hands-on workshop will unlock this world at your fingertips.

Fridays @ the Library - Spring 2018

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Jan 26: Finding Government Statistics for Your Research Project
Federal and state governments are an excellent source for statistical data. Review strategies for finding statistics compiled by governments, as well as statistics from non-governmental sources that are reported in federal documents.
Marie Concannon, Head of Government Information
→ Workshop Handout
Feb 2: Mendeley (in-person only)
Mendeley is a free reference manager that produces citations and bibliographies. It organizes your PDFs into a fully searchable database, allows you to annotate those PDFs, and share them with colleagues. Mendeley is also a social network, helping you discover researchers who share interests and see the papers that interest them.
Michael Muchow, Research & Instructional Services Librarian
Feb 2: BINDERS: Measuring Broader Impacts and Public Engagement
Evaluation is a crucial part of public engagement activities, but high costs and a lack of expertise can result in researchers leaving evaluation out of their proposals. This workshop will introduce the user-friendly BINDERS tool, which helps UM System researchers create projects with broad impact goals and collect granular data to align with project goals and activities.
Dr. Susan Renoe, Executive Director, The Connector
Feb 9: Zotero (in-person only)
Zotero is a free, simple, open-source tool for organizing, managing and formatting bibliographic citations. Learn to extract citations from PDFs and web pages at the click of a button, and create in-text references and bibliographies.
Rachel Brekhus, Research & Instructional Services Librarian
Feb 16: EndNote (in-person only)
Endnote is a powerful program for storing citation data and producing in-text citations and bibliographies in thousands of standard and journal-specific formats. Learn how to put this tool to work for your academic writing.
Michael Muchow, Research & Instructional Services Librarian
Feb 23: Preserving and Promoting Your Research: Theses and Dissertations in MOspace
Providing online access to your thesis or dissertation makes it more visible and available to fellow researchers around the world. But what about copyright and other publishing agreements? Do you need to get permission to include images? Learn about all the options, logistics, and complications of promoting your work with MOspace, the online repository for all MU theses and dissertations issued since 2006.
Felicity Dykas, Head of Digital Services
Anne Barker, Research & Instructional Services Librarian
→ Workshop Handout
March 2: Finding Health Literature: Keys to Searching PubMed, CINAHL & Scopus
Explore the features that increase the power and precision of your searches for health literature. Learn how to use subject headings and field searching, how to save your searches, and more.
Rebecca Graves, HSL Educational Services Librarian
March 9: Law for the Lay Person
Boost your knowledge of the U.S. legal system with this introduction to resources available for legal research. In this workshop, you will explore databases available at Mizzou, as well as other low cost and free legal resources.
Cindy Shearrer, Associate Law Librarian for Patron Services
→ PowerPoint
March 16: Copyright: Respecting the Rights of Others and Protecting your Own
When is it ok to download, rip, stream, copy, distribute, or perform art, music, or scholarship created by others? What happens if you do something that’s not OK? What about your own creations? Should you assign your rights to your publisher, or retain some for yourself? We can’t give you legal advice, but we can point you to guides that will help you thread your way through the U.S. Copyright landscape.
Anne Barker, Research & Instructional Services Librarian
April 6: Eye-Catching Presentations
Learn simple techniques to make your numbers tell a visual story, using features in Excel that many people forget, and find simple, iconic images that will bring your qualitative data together.
Rachel Brekhus, Research & Instructional Services Librarian
→ PowerPoint
April 13: Where to Publish Your Research
Learn how to identify publishing venues, evaluate journals and avoid “predatory publishers.”
Janice Dysart, Research & Instructional Services Librarian
→ Workshop Handout
April 20: Semester Wrap-Up (Rm 159, Ellis Library)
All Fridays @ the Library participants are invited to join librarians and archivists in a lively discussion of the workshop series. This is your chance to ask for new topics, suggest changes to the series, and reconnect with fellow researchers.
University Libraries Research & Information Services Division

Fridays @ the Library - Fall 2017

Sept 1: Staying Ahead of the Curve
MU Libraries has a variety of tools, information resources, collections, and services to assist with your instruction and research. Learn how other faculty and students are using the Libraries, and how they can best benefit you.
Kimberly Moeller, Social Sciences Librarian
Sept 8: Demystifying the Literature Review
Discover methods of conceptualizing and organizing your research for an analytically strong literature review, and hear about the messy experience of researching and drafting a dissertation literature review.
Rachel Brekhus, Research Services Librarian
Tim Perry, Special Collections Librarian
→ PowerPoint
Sept 15: The Sophisticated Literature Review Search
Get the results you want by learning key features of database searching. We’ll focus on practical techniques that save you time and effort in gathering sources for your literature review. Key interdisciplinary databases will be featured.
Rebecca Graves, HSL Educational Services Librarian
Taira Meadowcroft, HSL Informational Services Librarian
→ PowerPoint
Sept 22: How to Fact-Check & Verify the News
It is your responsibility as a news consumer to be critical and skeptical. This session will share fact-checking and verification techniques to assist you in determining whether what you are reading online is fact or fake.
Sandy Schiefer, Missourian Newspaper Librarian
→ PowerPoint
Oct 27: Maximizing Your Research Identity
Utilize ORCID, Google Scholar Profile, MOspace, h-index, impact factors and more to maximize your professional impact. Learn how to set up accounts and make these tools work for you!
Rebecca Graves, HSL Educational Services Librarian
Janice Dysart, Science Librarian
→ Workshop Handout
Nov 3: Open Educational Resources
Are your students struggling with the cost of course materials? Consider using free and openly licensed educational materials. Open Educational Resources are an accessible and equitable alternative to traditional instructional materials. Learn more about campus resources that can help you find, create, and use high-quality OERs.
Grace Atkins, Outreach Librarian

Fridays @ the Library - Spring 2017

Jan 27: Staying Ahead of the Curve: Be Aware of What Your Library Offers You
MU Libraries has a variety of tools, information resources, collections, and services to assist with your instruction and research. Learn how other faculty and students are using the Libraries, and how they can best benefit you.
Kimberly Moeller, Social Sciences Librarian
Federico Martinez-Garcia, Head, Access Services Department
Feb 3: The Literature Review: What It Is and How to Search
Demystify the literature review by learning its purpose, and how to find the best sources. We’ll explore practical techniques for searching databases in both the humanities and sciences that save you time and effort.
Rebecca Graves, Health Sciences Librarian
Taira Meadowcroft, Health Sciences Librarian
March 3: Plagiarism
Plagiarism happens when writers and researchers take credit for someone else’s work, but it is often unintentional. Learn how to identify different kinds of plagiarism as well as how to avoid plagiarizing by making use of library resources that are free to all MU affiliates.
Nicole Denninger & Willow Hoxie, SISLT Graduate Students
Noël Kopriva, Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Librarian
March 10: Maximizing Your Research Identity and Impact
Utilize ORCID, Google Scholar Profile, MOspace, h-index, impact factors and more to maximize your professional impact. Learn how to set up accounts and make these tools work for you
Janice Dysart, Science Librarian
March 17: Creating a Research Poster
Do you need to create a poster for a class or research project? Come learn how to make a visually appealing, content-rich, and effective presentation of your work. By the end of the session, you will know what it takes to effectively communicate about a scholarly project to an audience with varying levels of expertise in your research area.
Linda Blockus, Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research
April 7: Fake or Real? How to Fact-Check & Verify the News
It is your responsibility as a news consumer to be critical, skeptical and know how to fact-check and verify information. This session will share fact-checking and verification techniques to assist you in determining whether what you are reading online is a fact or fake.
Dorothy Carner, Head, Journalism Libraries
Sandy Schiefer, Government Information Librarian, Missourian Librarian
April 28: What’s in the Archives?
Learn how to access physical and digitized resources held in University Archives with advice on strategies for conducting primary source research.
Gary Cox, Public Services Archivist

Fridays @ the Library - Fall 2016

Aug 26: Staying Ahead of the Curve: Be Aware of What Your Library Offers You
Learn how other faculty and students are using the Library’s services and find out about the newest tools and information sources.
Sept 9: Digging into the Literature for a Literature Review
Learn some of the more sophisticated 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.
Sept 30: Exploration of Data-Planet: A Statistical Journey into the Social Sciences
Data-Planet Statistical Datasets provides access to an extensive repository of standardized and structured statistical data.
Oct 7: Maximizing Your Research Identity and Impact
Utilize ORCID, Google Scholar Profile, MOspace, h-index, impact factors and more to maximize your professional impact. Learn how to set up accounts and make these tools work for you!
Oct 21: Share Alike: Creative Commons
Whether you’re a user or creator, this workshop will answer all of your questions about Creative Commons materials and licenses.
Oct 28: Public Access Policies (or...Zen and the Art of Compliance)
This session will provide an overview on complying with Public Access Policies from funding agencies such as NIH and NSF.
Nov 4: Managing and Sharing Your Research Data
This session covers funding agency policies; metadata conventions; best practices for writing Data Management Plans; and submitting data to the MOspace Institutional Repository.
Nov 11: "I have an idea for an invention, where do I go from here?"
Learn the steps to determining whether your invention might be patentable. We will explore basic search tools on the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office website (www.uspto.gov), plus some more powerful tools such as PubEast, freely available onsite at Patent & Trademark Resource Centers. Guaranteed to provide entrepreneurs and inventors simple patent search strategies.

Public Access Policies Workshop

Public Access Policies (or...Zen and the Art of Compliance)
Presented by Kate Anderson, Head of Zalk Veterinary Medical Library

Need to make your research publicly available? This session will provide an overview on complying with Public Access Policies from funding agencies such as NIH and NSF. Topics also include a brief overview of Open Access journals and how they relate to agency policies.

Citation Management

Learn how to create bibliographies with Endnote in our LibGuide here.

Learn how to create bibliographies with Zotero in our LibGuide here.

Tool and App Training

Creating Effective Surveys with Qualtrics (Spring 2015)
Learn how to capture survey results that can assist with collecting data for research projects or class assignments, or assess user satisfaction with academic and administrative programs. Create surveys, collect responses, and analyze data through the Qualtrics insight platform.
Turnitin and LibX (Fall 2015)
Learn about the online plagiarism detection service for your thesis and add LibX to your browser to access the MU Libraries’ catalog, e-journals and e-resources.

Mendeley and Scopus Training

Mendeley
Scopus

Mendeley Training for Institutional Edition at MU (Fall 2015)
Duration: 1h 10m

Learn about the institutional edition of Mendeley available for MU faculty and students.

Scopus Training for MU (Fall 2015)
Duration: 57m

Learn about the institutional edition of Scopus for MU faculty and students.

Resources and Research at the Library

Copyright Conundrums (Fall 2015)
This workshop will provide an overview of U.S. copyright law in the academic setting and point the way to resources that help in making decisions and knowing when to seek legal advice.
EBooks: What Every Student and Faculty Member Should Know (Spring 2015)
Did you know the library has ebooks? Learn what you need to read ebooks online and how to download ebooks to your computer or tablet.
Apps for Academics: The Best of the Best Applications for Researchers and Writers (Fall 2014)
In this workshop, Jonathan Cisco will present new software (both PC and Mac platforms) that can help researchers write effectively and efficiently.
Keep Current With Your Latest Research Without the Stress (Fall 2014)
Is trying to keep up with new developments in your field stressing you out? We’ll show you some tools that can make keeping up with the latest research easy and painless.
Business Plan Essentials (Fall 2014)
Learn about resources, data, and services available to use in your business plans.
New Ways to Get What You Need: PDA, ebooks, audio books, OCCAM's Reader, etc. (Fall 2014)
This session will review how these resources are purchased at MU Libraries and how we provide access to faculty and students.
Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources are an accessible and equitable alternative to traditional instructional materials. Learn more about where and how you can find high-quality OERs to use in your courses.