Graduate Research in a Day on Tuesday, February 18th

The Research Commons is holding its annual graduate research day on Tuesday, February 18th. Come and learn new skills from undertaking a literature review to managing citations in reference management software such as Mendeley or Zotero. Develop familiarity with new software applications including SPSS for statistics and SimplyMap for mapping. Share new ideas during our workshops on scholarly activities including author rights, building your academic profile, getting published, and tracking your impact factor. Free pizza lunch included.

The free workshops include:

Literature Reviews – Great Research Starts Here
Tips and Tricks for Formatting Your Thesis: Little Things Mean a Lot!
Basic SPSS
Simple Mapping with SimplyMap
Your UBC Research: Make It Open Access via cIRcle!
Citation Management Tools Overview
Building Your Academic Profile
Getting Published
Open Access Publishing, Author Rights, and Funding Mandates
Measuring Research Impact: Introduction to Citation Metrics in Scholarship