Researcher Workshops are Back!
Tools and resources for graduate students, researchers, and faculty members
November is Research Month and the UM Libraries are offering a number of workshops on both the Fort Garry and Bannatyne campuses.
These popular workshops provide tools and resources needed by graduate students, researchers, and faculty members.
Attending one or even several of the sessions offered can help you discover the best tools, techniques, and strategies to benefit your work and remain on track with current goals and projects.
Here is the line-up of sessions, dates, and locations:
Data Deposit
- November 7, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Elizabeth Dafoe Library, Icelandic Boardroom
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3513933
This informative session focuses on developments in the academic publishing and research data management realm, which are changing rapidly with large funders and publishers now stipulating accountability to public stakeholders by requesting researchers deposit their data and/or their manuscripts in repositories.
Endnote: Advanced
- November 7, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Neal John Maclean Health Sciences Library
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3511265
This hands-on session focuses on advanced features of Endnote – a citation management tool – and assumes attendees are already familiar with the basic functions of Endnote.
Introduction to ArcGIS Online
- November 8, 10:30-12:30 pm, Elizabeth Dafoe Library Brown Lab
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3521558
Get your University of Manitoba ArcGIS user license to create and share online maps and presentations using map coordinates or with addresses. Become familiar with ArcGIS Online and the MS Office plug-in. Specify a coordinate system and use geospatial data types.
Zotero Basics
- November 12, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Elizabeth Dafoe Library Brown Lab
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3513959
Zotero is an open-source reference management tool. Does Zotero work for managing your research sources? Does it work for your research and study flow? In this session, the student will find out how Zotero works as a citation management tool through the combination of demonstrations and hands-on exercises.
Know Your Rights: Permissions and Use Rights in Teaching and Research
- November 13, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, Engineering Library (part of Graduate Student Open House)
- November 15, 10:00 – 11:00 am, Elizabeth Dafoe Library, Archives Classroom
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3527097 - November 20, 10:00 – 11:00 am, Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3526190
When someone mentions open access and licensing agreements, most of our minds turn to journals, but, don’t forget about data! Remember that just because you have data saved to your computer or sitting on a drive that you can access doesn’t mean you can disseminate or do whatever you want with it. Learn more about data sharing, licenses, and rights with Althea Wheeler, Copyright Officer and Andrea Szwajcer, Acting Coordinator RSDS.
Data Management Plans
- November 14, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Elizabeth Dafoe Library, Icelandic Boardroom
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3513943 - November 18, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3511269
This informative session will discuss data management plans – formal documents that outline how data/scholarly products of research are to be handled both during and after a research project.
Create Edit and Visualize Data Using ArcGIS Online
- November 15, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, Elizabeth Dafoe Library Brown Lab
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3521565 - November 21, 12 – 2 pm, Elizabeth Dafoe Library Brown Lab
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3521566
Mendeley Basics
- November 19, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, Sciences and Technology Library Computer Lab
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3513945
Do you struggle with organizing your PDFs? In this session you will learn how to use Mendeley, a free and easy to use program to quickly organize all your PDF articles, generate bibliographies in a variety of citation styles and cite while you write.
Managing Your Research Profile using ORCID
- November 21, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Neal John Maclean Health Sciences Library
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3511272
This hands-on session introduces you to ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) – an international not-for-profit organization and registry to help researchers establish and maintain their scholarly identity.
Data Sharing & Licenses – Essentials
- November 25, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3511273
This informative session focuses on data sharing and usage. As stipulations for data deposit by publishers and funders become more common, it is important that data sharing agreements are clearly outlined at the beginning of a project, such as what data is going be shared and how the data will be used.
Use Web Mapping Applications to Compare Maps in ArcGIS Online
- November 22, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, Elizabeth Dafoe Library Brown Lab
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3521567 - November 26, 12:00 – 2:00 pm, Elizabeth Dafoe Library Brown Lab
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3521568
EndNote Basics
- November 26, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, Sciences and Technology Library Computer Lab
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3513948
The EndNote desktop version is a full-featured reference management program that you can purchase from the bookstore. This workshop will provide a basic introduction to EndNote.
GIS in the Health Sciences
- November 28, 12:00 -1:00 pm, Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library
Details & Registration: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3511284
This hands-on session provides an overview on the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and how it can be used in the health sciences.
In addition, for graduate students in the Sciences, connect with UM professionals who can help you throughout your thesis-writing life cycle at the Graduate Student Open House, November 13, 1:00 – 4:00 pm, Engineering Library.