Road to research success: How to find scholarly articles and books through York U Libraries

Need help navigating your way to academic sources? This workshop will provide you with a basic roadmap to library resources – and put you in the driver’s seat. Learn how to: find your way around the library website; start your search with subject guides and research strategies; access and use OMNI and databases to find […]

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.

Graduate student research skills workshop

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 […]

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 […]

Le chemin vers la réussite en recherche

Vous avez besoin d’aide pour vous orienter vers des sources académiques? Cet atelier vous fournira une feuille de route pour les ressources de la bibliothèque et vous mettra au volant. Apprenez: Comment vous orienter sur le site web de la bibliothèque. À commencer vos recherches avec les guides thématiques et les stratégies de recherche. À […]

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 […]

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/3778358.