Are you working with large excel spreadsheets and looking for ways to improve your data management? Perhaps you’re writing a paper and are interested in utilizing a citation manager for organizing your sources and creating in-text citations. Maybe you’ve completed a literature search but don’t want to fall behind on new studies being published.
This month our workshops focus on managing your data, your references and how to stay current with what’s happening within your field of research.
Best Practices for Data Management in Excel
- When: February 5th, 2020 from 4 – 5:00 pm
- Where: Matthews-Fuller Library, DHMC
- Description: Actively managing your research data is an important part of research, and Excel is one of the most widely used tools. In this workshop, we will review best practices for data management in Excel, along with tips on filenames, README files, and metadata. We’ll introduce the free version of Colectica for Excel, a tool that can help you document your spreadsheet data.
- Registration is required for this event.
Free Citation Managers: Mendeley and Zotero
- When: February 7th, 2020 from 7 – 8:00 am
- Where: Matthews-Fuller Library, DHMC and Zoom
- Description: This workshop introduces key functions of Mendeley and Zotero including installing, adding citations to your library, organizing and managing your citations, creating a bibliography, and easily inserting citations into your documents. We will discuss the differences between the two programs and when you might use each.
- Registration is required for this event.
Keeping Current with the Latest Biomedical Research
- When: February 14th, 2020 from 8 – 9:00 am
- Where: Matthews-Fuller Library, DHMC
- Description: Looking to stay up to in the ever-changing biomedical research landscape? Trying to update a literature review before it’s been published? Stop in to learn about database alerts and more!
- Registration is required for this event.
Free Citation Managers: Mendeley and Zotero
- When: February 19th, 2020 from 12 – 1:00 pm
- Where: Dana Biomedical Library, Room 339 and Zoom
- Description: This workshop introduces key functions of Mendeley and Zotero including installing, adding citations to your library, organizing and managing your citations, creating a bibliography, and easily inserting citations into your documents. We will discuss the differences between the two programs and when you might use each.
- Registration is required for this event.
This post was written by Paige Scudder, a Research and Education Librarian for the Biomedical Libraries.
