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Click on any of the workshops in the calendar below for details and the registration link.
Are you looking for a quiet place to study or work on your research? Do you have a questions about finding or citing books, articles, and other information sources? Join us at one of our drop-in sessions where a librarian will be on hand to answer your questions.
Everyone is welcome! No registration required.
Drop-Ins will resume in Fall 2024!
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October & November |
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| *There are no drop-ins scheduled during the Fall and Winter semester breaks. |
Through this program, students are introduced to a variety of key research skills, including those related to searching, evaluating and citing information. These skills are especially valuable to students who may be less familiar with academic research or new to university. Through this series, students can develop relevant skills to benefit them in their studies and achieve a record of experience that can be referenced when applying for graduate studies or future employment.
You've been told to use academic sources for your assignment. But what are they, and how do you find them? This introductory session will walk you through the process of searching for scholarly information – including how to choose keywords, select databases, use filters, and access the all-important full text. Presenters will share a variety of practical strategies and tips to save you time, and help you find the best information for your assignments!
You have experience finding academic sources, but now you've been tasked with more challenging assignments which require more references. How do you know if you've found everything you need? It's time to kick it up a notch. This session will give you the skills you need for more advanced, complex literature searching. Search more effictively and efficiently in databases, the library catalogue, and even in Google! Use citation searching to get a bigger picture of research on your topic, learn about some newer search tools to complement your existing techniques, and consider strategies for managing your search results.
How do you know if something is appropriate for use in your assignments? In this workshop you will deepen your understanding of peer reviewed sources, think about the different ways to evaluate the credibility of academic and popular sources - including AI - and learn about additional considerations for evaluating information on Indigenous topics.
Undergraduate students know they need to cite sources to avoid getting in trouble for plagiarism, but is there anything more to it? And what role do ethics and equity play in citation? This session will cover some basic principles of citation like understanding when to cite, using different types of citations, navigating complicated style guides, citing images and other formats, and making the best use of software tools for citations. We aim to demystify the process and to make you a more confident writer. Bring your citation questions to ask at the end.
This series comprises a set of five workshops to help graduate students develop knowledge and skills to help them as they move through the different stages of their degree. In this series, graduate students will learn how to search, write a literature review, peer review, establish their online researcher profile, and publish their work. Students can register for all five workshops or choose the workshops that interest them.
Literature reviews (also called narrative reviews) are found in various formats in academic writing. They can be stand-alone articles, a chapter in a thesis/dissertation, or a capstone project. This session will cover how to create a research question and why it's so important to the literature review. Topic selection, developing the search, keeping track of references, and structuring the literature review will also be discussed.
This informative session guides you through the complete process of preparing your publication. It covers important factors to consider when selecting a journal, how the peer-review and revision process works, understanding open access options, copyright issues, and how to keep track of potential future citations of your work.
This workshop will introduce graduate students to open access, providing a brief history of the topic, and a discussion of the increasing importance of open access. It will cover selecting and publishing in an open access journal, the different types of open access, and copyright rights.
This session will demonstrate how to find individual research metrics (i.e. article citations, h-index, etc.) using library databases. We will also discuss how research metrics are utilized in different fields, the value and drawback of utilizing these tools to enhance your researcher profile, and other significant elements in painting a complete picture of your research practice.
Research Data Management (RDM) practices are increasingly being mandated for researchers in Canada. This session will introduce students to the “what” and why” of RDM, including underlying principles and current requirements from funders and publishers.
This session explores various networking and academic profile websites to help you determine why tools like these matter and to choose which one(s) are appropriate for you. These tools raise the profile of a researcher at any stage of their career and better highlight scholarly impact. ORCID, ScopusID, ResearcherID, and Google Scholar are compared.
Are you considering starting a systematic, scoping, or rapid review but don’t know how to get started? These sessions focus on the skills needed to complete the documenting, searching, translation, deduplication, and screening processes of a systematic, scoping, rapid, or other large-scale comprehensive review, with a focus on research in the health sciences. Participants will gain a solid understanding of what is needed to complete a systematic review and why they are an essential part of evidence-based practice.
Discover the foundational elements needed to carry out a knowledge synthesis review and what types of reviews to consider including systematic or scoping reviews. This session provides an introduction to helpful tools and resources to develop a plan to carry out a publishable review.
For those embarking on a a systematic review, this session offers vital insights into necessary preparations. Learn to set up accounts across relevant programs, establish structured folder systems for seamless organization, and gain expert advice on documenting and conserving searches essential for protocol development.
Dive deeper into the intricacies of systematic reviews by learning advanced search strategies. Identify the concepts embedded in your research question and how to translate that information to effective search techniques using a combination of keywords and subject headings. Learn how to use the tools in the OVID Medline and EMBASE databases to carry out comprehensive, efficient searches.
Learn how to correctly modify an OVID Medline search strategy to be used in various databases. This is a difficult and necessary part of effective searching to carry out a quality review worthy of publication. You will learn how to select and use diverse databases and essential tools for documenting your search strategy methodology. The example used will translate an OVID Medline search to OVID Embase and will demonstrate the principles of how to do this for completing your searches in other OVID, EBSCOhost, or other databases if applicable.
Systematic reviews demand time and complexity, but with the right tools, they become more manageable. Join us in this workshop to explore a diverse array of programs and tools, including emerging artificial intelligence (AI) tools, designed to streamline various aspects of the review process. From crafting protocols to translating search strategies, deduplicating search results, article screening, citation chaining, and conducting risk of bias assessments, this session covers it all. Tools covered will include Covidence, SR Accelerator, ChatGPT, Yale MeSH Analyzer, Ovid Term Finder, Ovid Search Finder, and others.