Auburn University Libraries offering virtual Savvy Researcher Boot Camp

Published: May 07, 2020

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Auburn University Libraries is moving its Savvy Researcher Boot Camp online. The boot camp, scheduled for May 23, is a day-long event geared to graduate students who want to take their research to a higher level. Students may pick and choose between workshops that interest them, including sessions on locating scholarly sources, writing literature reviews, organizing citations, managing data, creating professional presentations and more. All workshops will be offered via Zoom.

Featured presentations for the May boot camp include two faculty panels on scholarly publishing. Faculty representatives from the Graduate School, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, the College of Education and the College of Liberal Arts will offer guidance on writing and publishing in their respective disciplines.

Registration for the Savvy Researcher Boot Camp is open. For more information and to register, go to https://libguides.auburn.edu/savvy_researcher.

Workshops offered, length 60-90 minutes:

  • Writing Literature Reviews (offered by the Office of University Writing)
  • Finding Sources for Your Literature Review
  • Introduction to Systematic Reviews
  • Researching in Special Collections & Archives
  • NEW: HathiTrust: Temporary Emergency Access to AUL’s Collection
  • Introduction to Zotero
  • Introduction to Mendeley
  • Introduction to LaTeX
  • Introduction to Data Management
  • My Professional Self: Professional Presentations and Technology (offered by the Biggio Center)
  • Effective Poster Design
  • Boosting Your Scholarly Impact
Shorter “lightning session” workshops, length 30 minutes:
  • Searching Web of Science
  • Research in Engineering Village
  • How to Read a Scholarly Article
  • Boolean Searching in Library Databases
  • Sharing Your Work: Open Access & AU’s Institutional Repository
  • Publishing Your Work: Which Journal Should I Choose?
  • Managing Documents in the Cloud

Submitted by: Jayson Hill