Enhancing the visibility of your research: social sciences, arts and humanities

This practical workshop will introduce trends in scholarly publishing of particular relevance to graduate students and junior scholars in social science, arts and humanities. Techniques to increase the discoverability of scholarship on the web via researcher identifiers, self-archiving and open-access publishing will also be covered during the session. Register in advance at: yorku.libcal.com/event/3772341.

Introduction to Zotero: making citing easier

This introductory, hands-on workshop will teach you how to organize your citations and create your bibliographies with ease. You can do a lot with Zotero! Register at: yorku.libcal.com/event/3778359.

Enhancing the visibility of your research: STEM

This practical workshop will introduce trends in scholarly publishing of particular relevance to graduate students and junior scholars in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Techniques to increase the discoverability of scholarship on the web via researcher identifiers, self-archiving and open-access publishing will also be covered during the session. Register at: yorku.libcal.com/event/3772340.

Safeguarding your research data

Grant applications and ethics protocols suggest you need to ensure research data is kept secure, but the “how” of managing this task is rarely addressed. We’ll guide you through common research issues connected with privacy and security using online or “cloud” services for file storage, ensuring a lost laptop doesn’t mean compromised data, taking control of […]

Zotero for collaborative research projects

Zotero is a free, open-source tool to manage and track bibliographic citations. This series of live workshops are designed to take participants beyond the basics of using Zotero to having it serve as a fully-fledged research partner. By the end of this live workshop, participants will understand how to: share a Zotero collection with a specific group […]

Reading and annotating with Zotero

Zotero is a free, open-source  tool to manage and track bibliographic citations. This series of live workshops are designed to take participants beyond the basics of using Zotero to having it serve as a fully fledged research partner. By the end of this live workshop, participants should be able to: manage research notes using Zotero, and generate reports […]

Organizing Zotero collections

Zotero is a free, open source tool to manage and track bibliographic citations. This series of live workshops are designed to take participants beyond the basics of using Zotero to having it serve as a fully fledged research partner. By the end of this live workshop, participants should be able to: contrast the use of collections, tags and related […]

Citation analysis tools for mapping the literature

Citation analysis is a way of measuring the relative importance or impact of author, article or publication, and exploring links between them. Citation analysis can support the early stages of research by summarizing and mapping existing knowledge and research on a particular subject, and identifying gaps in the literature. It can also be used to […]

2023 Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Workshop

Join us for the fourth annual Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health (CPGH) Research Workshop on Wednesday, March 29 from 9 a.m. to noon ET at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. Breakfast and lunch will be served.   Critical research often involves the use of critical theory with social justice aims. Critical social science perspectives […]