Auburn University Libraries offering Savvy Researcher Boot Camp

Auburn University Libraries will be offering its spring edition of the Savvy Researcher Boot Camp on Feb. 8 from 9:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. This half-day of workshops is designed for graduate students who want to take their research skills to a higher level. Whether students are interested in learning more about locating scholarly sources, writing literature reviews, organizing citations, managing data or creating professional presentations, the Savvy Researcher workshops will help them become better, and more effective, researchers.

The Savvy Researcher Boot Camp will take place in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library and Mell Classroom Building. Students may pick and choose between the sessions that interest them.

Registration for the Boot Camp is open. Spaces are limited. For more information and to register for the workshops, go to https://libguides.auburn.edu/savvy_researcher.

Workshops offered 60-90 minutes in duration:

• Writing Literature Reviews, offered by the Office of University Writing

• Finding Sources for Your Literature Review

• Intro to Systematic Reviews

• Zotero 101

• Intro to EndNote

• Intro to Mendeley

• Intro to LaTeX

• Intro to Data Management

• HathiTrust: Finding Primary Source Materials

• Strategic Searching

• Intro to Library Services

• New: My Professional Self: Professional Presentations and Technology, offered by the Biggio Center

• New: Boosting Your Scholarly Impact

Shorter “lightning session” workshops 30 minutes in duration:

• Searching Web of Science

• Research in Engineering Village

• Finding Full Text

• Making the Most out of Your ORCID iD

• Archiving Your Scholarly Work

• Managing Documents in the Cloud

• Library Document Delivery Services

• New: Boolean Searching in Library Databases

• New: Predatory Publishing

• New: Standards, Regulations, and Laws for Engineers