Workshops

Resources for News & Media

Learn how to locate and use the USF Tampa Library to find reliable news and media sources.

Copyright: My Stuff, Their Stuff, Who Can Use What

What you need to know as an author, how to use copyrighted materials, re-using your own published works, and how to protect your work.

Sciences: Beyond the Basics

This session will include an introduction to the Web of Science database and you will also learn how to use many of the more subtle features, such as learning about funding sources, citation metrics, and setting up alerts.

Business: Beyond the Basics

You’ve used the library catalog and are familiar with many of the standard resources, but there’s much more information and resources available for topics in business, economics, finance and more.

RefWorks Advanced: Keeping Track of Where You Found It

This session covers topics such as using Write-N-Cite to create in-text citations, editing references, account back up and more.

Scholarly Research & Publishing in the Sciences

This workshop will introduce you to the world of scholarly publishing in the social sciences. Learn how to read a journal article, what the peer review process is like, how to find impact factors of journals, and many other basic research skills.

Conducting a Literature Review

n this workshop you will learn what a literature review is as well as develop a search strategy to implement a comprehensive literature review. You will acquire the skills to develop a methodology for conducting a literature review that you are comfortable with in order to move forward with your research endeavors.

Finding Dissertations & Theses

Learn how to locate dissertations and theses and use them to expand your research endeavors.

Scholarly Research & Publishing in the Social Sciences

This workshop will introduce you to the world of scholarly publishing in the social sciences. Learn how to read a journal article, what the peer review process is like, how to find impact factors of journals, and many other basic research skills.

Documenting Impact: Journal Rankings & Bibliometrics

How do scholars profile the impact of their work through cited references and journal ranking?. The session will cover bibliometric tools that assist researchers in deciding where to submit their manuscripts, how to determine the impact of their journal publications, and finally, how to build a strong tenure/promotion portfolio in documenting their cited references.

Social Sciences: Beyond the Basics

You know the basics—the library catalog, the databases in your discipline and many of the tools you have used habitually for your coursework and basic projects, but now you want to go deeper, either because you are getting ready to write your thesis or you want to work on a manuscript for publication. This workshop will cover the tools researchers use to go beyond the basics in order to do an exhaustive review of the literature. Learn how to expand your literature review beyond the familiar databases by and by employing current awareness services. Follow the bibliographic trail by using advanced searching techniques in Google Scholar, World Catalog, Retrospective databases, dissertation databases, and through cited author references.

Environmental Sciences & Geography: Beyond the Basics

This session will include a brief introduction to finding information on environmental and related topics using major databases like the Web of Science and Water Resources Abstracts. Participants will also learn how to use many of the new and updated scholarly resources and tools, including citation metrics, search alerts, and the expanding world of e-books in the sciences.

Know Your Rights as an Author

All too often authors eager to publish their work simply give away all the rights to it, not cognizant of future consequences of that decision. This workshop outlines copyright issues in regard to the protection their rights as an author. Presenters will offer an overview of copyright issues and author rights in light of decisions they need to consider when working with publishers and negotiating publishing contracts. Participants will review samples of publisher/copyright licensing agreements in the context of author rights.