Facilitator: Emily Gattozzi, Scholarly Communications Strategist, University Libraries

Copyright doesn’t have to be scary! Join your peers for an introduction to U.S. copyright law, including an overview of the exceptions most relevant to research and teaching. Bring your questions to share during a friendly discussion at the end of the session.

In this session, you will:

• Define the exclusive rights granted to copyright holders, including you as a creator.
• Identify what exceptions apply when you’re using the copyrighted works of others.
• Determine when to secure permission to use copyrighted works.

Facilitator: Laura Sheets, Library Instruction Coordinator, Library Teaching & Learning

Writing a literature review for an article or thesis can be daunting, especially if you’ve never written one before. Where do you even start? How do you know that you have enough sources to sound credible? In this workshop, we’ll discuss time-saving strategies for finding sources, how to determine an appropriate scope, and how to organize your sources to make writing a breeze! 

In this session, you will:

• Practice citation tracing to find relevant articles for their literature review. 
• Categorize sources by theme to organize a literature review. 
• Determine an appropriate scope for your literature review.

Facilitator: Laura Sheets, Assistant Professor/Library Instruction Coordinator, Library Teaching & Learning

One of the easiest ways to stress less about properly citing your sources is to get organized by using citation management software. Through the University Libraries, you have a free subscription to RefWorks, one of the main citation management software programs. RefWorks organizes information sources for multiple research projects and creates bibliographies, in-text citations, footnotes and endnotes in several citation styles. By using RefWorks, you will save yourself a lot of time and frustration.  

In this session, you will learn how to:

• Import information sources from library databases. 
• Create and edit projects and folders in RefWorks. 
• Create a bibliography using RefWorks.  

Facilitator: Edith Scarletto, Reference & Instruction Librarian, Library Teaching & Learning

Joining the scholarly conversation in your field can be intimidating. Where should you submit your article manuscript? Are some journals better than others? What about the emails you get from random journals asking you to submit your work? Using library databases such as Journal Citation Reports and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, the facilitator will demonstrate how to find and evaluate scholarly journals in your field and discuss the indicators of predatory publishing practices.

In this session, you will learn how to:

• Use library databases and online resources to identify scholarly journals in your field(s).
• Identify the red flags of predatory publishing practices.
• Evaluate scholarly journals based on various identifiers, such as impact factors and journal citation indicators.