Workshops to advance your knowledge and skills in the methodology and tools to improve your research process, search of the literature and manage data will be offered again this semester by the University Libraries’ Research Partnerships librarians. Many of the workshops are offered online, while a few are still offered in-person.
Registration is required and will be available under each calendar entry for individual workshops on the department’s event calendar as well as on the list below by month.
September
Search Strategies for Robust Literature Review in Humanities – Sept 10, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m., Witt Room, Love Library South (LLS 224)
In this workshop we will explore how systematic search strategies can be applied to humanities research. We will focus on the literature review portion of your research project. We will review typologies of literature reviews to help situate your own within your research project, explore databases relevant to your research, and learn advanced search strategies within those databases. This will be an interactive workshop that engages with researchers at any stage of the research process. Taught by Gabriel Bruguier.
Writing research questions to match your methodology – Sept 13, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m., Zoom
It's almost impossible to over-state the importance of a strong research question to guide your research endeavor. But what makes a strong research question? How do you know if your research question is appropriate for the methodology you want to use? In this workshop, we will discuss how your research question can guide you to the best research methodology to answer it and how to adapt research questions for different research methodologies using systematic and scoping review methodologies as an example. Taught by Elle Covington.
Introduction to Reparative Research Practices – Sept 17, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m., Witt Room, Love Library South (LLS 224)
As university research has progressed, it has become evident that traditional practices and assumptions have had negative effects on social groups. Some of these effects include erasure, repressing stories and experiences, creating power dynamics between knower/known, amongst others. Reparative Research Practices (RRP) address and attempt to repair traditional practices. In this workshop we will define RRP, discuss how they affect your research, and what resources are available to you as a researcher. Taught by Gabriel Bruguier.
Writing the NIH Data Management & Sharing Plan - Sept 19, 11 a.m. -- 12 p.m., Zoom
Understand the six required elements of the NIH data management and sharing plan and how to meet these in an interactive workshop. Taught by Leslie Delserone.
Crash Course in Research Data Management – Sept 20, 12 p.m., Zoom
Start your next project (or class) with a plan to keep your project organized and your data safe, from inception until you are ready to share, reuse, or revisit the project whether next month or years from now. Taught by Scout Calvert.
ArcGIS Online: Maps for Everyone – Sept 20, 10 – 11 a.m., Witt Room, Love Library South (LLS 224)
This workshop introduces GIS through an easy to understand and practical tool using only a web browser. ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based mapping and analysis solution, which can be used to create stylish, fully interactive maps or web map applications. Tailored for entry-level researchers, this engaging session aims to equip participants with essential skills to seamlessly connect tabular information to geographic representations. Attendees will gain hands-on experience linking tabular census data to a map. You will receive instructions in the registration email to get your ArcGIS Online account before the workshop. Taught by Wenjie Wang.
Sharing Your Story with ArcGIS StoryMaps – Sept 23, 10 – 11 a.m., Witt Room, Love Library South (LLS 224)
StoryMaps combine your data with narrative text, images, and multimedia content to create user-friendly web apps. It is a very user-friendly product, and you can publish a story map without writing any code. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to create a story map. Taught by Wenjie Wang.
Writing the USDA Data Management Plan – Sept 26, 12 – 1 p.m., Zoom
Understand the required elements of the USDA data management plan and how to meet these in an interactive workshop. Taught by Leslie Delserone.
October
Data Management Fundamentals for Graduate Students – Oct 17, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m., Zoom
Learn how to successfully manage your research data and create a personal data management plan. Taught by Leslie Delserone.
Prepare Your Data for Openness – Oct 25, 12 – 1 p.m., Zoom
Adopting open data practices can improve collaboration, safeguard data, and help researchers get ahead of data sharing requirements from funders and publishers. Data sharing and transparency can benefit science and increase researcher impact. This presentation will provide strategies for meaningfully open data, offer choices in data sharing, describe some limitations of openness, and help researchers get a jump start preparing data for openness. Taught by Scout Calvert.
Writing the NSF Data Management Plan – Oct 31, 12 – 1 p.m., Zoom
Understand the basic required elements of the NSF data management plan and how to meet these in an interactive workshop. Taught by Leslie Delserone
November
Prepare Now for Your Personal Digital Dark Age – Nov 7, 12 – 1 p.m., Zoom
All digital files are vulnerable to decay and loss. Sometimes a hard drive fails, or a file becomes corrupted. But we can also lose files due to bad data management habits, obsolete technology, or, paradoxically, because we have too many copies and too many storage options. It is easy to overlook the digital photos, documents, and other files we create in daily life, in our personal research, and in our citizen science and historian scholarship. In recognition of World Digital Preservation Day, this workshop helps participants identify their most valuable computer files and create a plan for backup, self-curation, and preservation. Taught by Scout Calvert.
Writing the USDA Data Management Plan – Nov 14, 12 – 1 p.m., Zoom
Understand the required elements of the USDA data management plan and how to meet these in an interactive workshop. Taught by Leslie Delserone.
More details at: https://events.unl.edu/RDE