Library pilots lunchtime workshop series

A new lunchtime workshop series was offered by the ASU Library in February and March. This series aims to enhance graduate students' scholarly activities. 

Workshops ranged from citation management to copyright and fair use considerations. The Graduate Scholars’ Toolkit Workshop series offered ASU grad student’s hour-long introductions to a variety of tools to help them succeed in their work.  

The library is also surveying graduate students to learn what areas and tools they would like to learn more about in order to expand the offerings of the series.

Manage Your Research from Start to Finish with OSF

Learn how to store and selectively share data and projects with colleagues and team members through the use of a free open-source web platform, the Open Science Framework (OSF). 

Copyright, Fair Use and Your Dissertation

Learn how to navigate copyright and fair use considerations for your dissertation or thesis. Whether you’ve only begun thinking about your dissertation subject, you’re just starting to write, or you’re getting ready to submit, this workshop will help you figure out what you can use, what rights you have and what it means to share your dissertation online.

Citation Management for Graduate Students

Learn why you should use a citation manager, where to find citations in the Library catalog and elsewhere, and how to organize and then use your citations as you research and write. Following an overview of citation management, we will discuss the different citation managers available to ASU graduate students (Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote) and some of their features.

GIS Data and Software: Breaking the Ice

Gain hands-on experience working with different types of geospatial datasets using two popular geographic information system (GIS) software platforms: ArcGIS Pro (licensed) and QGIS (open-source). Emphasis will be placed on foundational topics, such as data import, basic geoprocessing operations and map production/geovisualization. 

Tell us what workshops you would like to see offered in the Fall 2019 semester by taking the survey.