Library Events for Grad Students & Faculty

Citation Management Tools

EndNote

Receive an introduction to the citation management tool EndNote. Learn how to organize a library, import references from databases, create bibliographies, modify output styles and customize reference types.

EndNote Web

Learn how to use the free version of EndNote - EndNote Web! Discover how easy it is to keep track of your sources, import your references into Word documents and share your sources with others using web-based EndNote Web.

Zotero

Learn about this new (and free) web-based citation management tool, which you can use to save citations and pdfs, as well as incorporate citations into a Word document.

Becoming a Better Researcher

Literature Review Workshop

Find out what the literature review is and how to get started, how to keep track of sources, searches and new research, and how to use library resources more effectively.

Cited Reference Searching:  From the Classic to the Cutting Edge

Find out how "cited reference" searching can help you be a better researcher. Learn how to do a cited reference search using the Web of Science service as well as other options.

Graduate Student Financial Support Workshop

This is a grant searching (not a grant writing) workshop. We will discuss the many ways in which graduate students are supported at OSU and also explore search tools and techniques for locating external support.

Publishing Tips - Where, When & How

Find out more about some key publishing strategies and tips including what to consider when choosing a journal to publish in, copyright and why it matters to you, impact factors and more!

RSS Feeds - News & Research Delivered to Your Desktop

Use this free web-based tool to easily manage all the websites you visit and to keep up with new information - even new content from journal articles!

Social Bookmarking in an Academic Environment:  Moving Beyond Tagging, Cooking Blogs & Shopping Sites

Have you wondered how can you store and organize the web sites and articles you find during your online research journey? Considered ways to discover and explore your colleagues' online research projects? Pondered how social bookmarking tools might work for you? Join in and see how tagging can help you connect, classify, and categorize!

Publishing Your Research:  Your Rights, Your Advisor and the Publisher

Find out about copyright transfer agreements, who has the right to do what with research and what questions to ask your advisor and your publisher.

Thesis/Dissertation Submission Demystified

Find out how to submit your thesis to the ScholarsArchive, how to assign keywords to your thesis so others can find it, and what ScholarsArchive is.

Becoming a Better Teacher

Jing:  Screen Shot, Screen Capture & Share

If Camtasia and Captivate are too expensive (starting at $300) then try simple, free and easy-to-use Jing software to create instructive screenshots and screen capture videos for your educational website.

Research Assignments that Work

Whether you’re looking to improve an existing research assignment or wanting to create a new one from scratch, OSU instruction librarians can help you.  In this workshop, we will show you how to design research assignments that: encourage students to use quality resources, target the skills you want your students to develop, prevent cut-and-paste plagiarism, avoid obstacles to learning caused by limited access to resources.

Web 2.0 Tools

Save and Share Photos with Flickr

Learn about this free web-based photo-sharing tool and some ways you can use it in your school work.

If you are interested in a workshop that is not currently offered, or if you would like to have a workshop delivered to an individual class, please contact Hannah Rempel (hannah.rempel@oregonstate.edu).