Digital Scholarship & Research Services: Workshops & Classes

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NOTE: Please allow at least four weeks between your request and the desired workshop date. We reserve the right to turn down requests based upon current staff availability and expertise.

Workshops:

• Data Visualization
• Copyright 101
• Data Management and Planning
• Introduction to Git
• Introduction to Bash
• Beginner's guide to R, Python, and SQL
• Digital Storytelling for the Health Sciences
• How to Read a Scholarly Article
• How to Write a Data Management and Data Sharing Plan for Your Grant Proposals
• Introduction to Data Cleaning with OpenRefine
• Introduction to Research
• IRB Basics: An Introduction to the IRB process at USD
• The Literature Review
• Quantitative/Qualitative Research Methods
• Research Ethics
• Scoping Review Basics
• Study Design 101
• Survey Design
• Understanding Researcher Metrics and How to Find Yours
• Writing about Data: A Scientific Writing Workshop

Classes offered through the Wegner Library cover a vast range of topics aimed at helping the faculty, staff, and students at USD and Wegner Partners advance and promote their research. To sign up for a Wegner class, click here.

• Wegner Resources: Getting Started

  This class is designed for new users or those that need a refresher on utilizing Wegner's resources. We will cover general website and catalog navigation, remote access, general searching, interlibrary loan and other library services available.

• PubMed Basics

  Getting started with PubMed: Keyword vs. MeSH searching, creating a myNCBI account, and more.

• PubMed Advanced

  This class will build off the PubMed Basics Class. Learn additional search techniques, hedges, how to create search filters, and more.

• Using CINAHL

  Overview of using the Cumulative Index of Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) including keywords, wildcards, combining searches, filters and more.

• EndNote Basics

  This class is for EndNote Desktop users only. USD, SDSU, and Sanford affiliated users can download for free. Overview of EndNote desktop including creating a new EndNote library, importing references manually from PubMed or EBSCOhost databases, finding and attaching the full text, and Cite While You Write.

• EndNote Advanced

  This class is for EndNote Desktop users only. USD, SDSU, and Sanford affiliated users can download for free. This class will build off the EndNote Basics Class. Learn how to create subfolders, Journal Terms List, create and modify new citation styles, and use Cite While You Write.

• Finding and Using Images

  Topics include finding images in databases and the Web, using Creative Commons, understanding publisher requirements, embedding videos into learning management systems, and creating infographics.

• Publishing Pearls, Pitfalls & Predators

  Topics include finding author instructions, understanding author's rights and copyrights, free publishing options, case reports, plagiarism, ORCiD, and predatory journals and conferences.

• Using Free Citation Tools

  Learn the differences between and basic navigation for the free versions of Zotero and Mendeley.