What makes a great literature review? How can researchers be comprehensive while not drowning in information overload? This session will explore the bricks and mortar of building a literature review, with a particular focus on searching for and structuring sources through analysis and synthesis. Explore advanced strategies for searching library databases, refining search queries, and extracting […]
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.
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.
Need help starting your research and navigating York University Libraries? In this workshop you will learn how to get the most out of the library and the complications with information. The fundamentals of Omni will be explored. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global, newspaper databases and Web of Science will also be discussed. Register for this […]
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.
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]