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Scholarly Communications

Workshops

Register for current workshops at: https://byu.libcal.com/calendar/scholcomm

Common Tools for Data Analysis and Visualization
Making your Published Work discoverable Online
Beyond the Impact Factor: Understanding and Using Research Metrics
Sharing your Research on BYU’s Institutional Repository
Fundamentals for Managing your Data
Finding open and more affordable course content
Responsible Use of AI in Research

Common Tools for Data Analysis and Visualization

This session will highlight software for analyzing and visualizing data including R, SAS, Python, SPSS, Stata, Excel, Tableau Public, Gale Scholar Lab, and ArcGIS. Come to learn about features and functions of each software, use-case scenarios, and training resources.

Making your Published Work discoverable Online

Getting published is one thing, maximizing the impact of your work is another. In this workshop we will share:

  • How scholarship is retrieved by search engines and what you can do to increase the chances that others will find your work
  • What rights you have as an author and how asserting those rights can affect the impact of your work in your field
  • Open access publishing and its impact on readership

Beyond the Impact Factor: Understanding and Using Research Metrics

Learn paradigms and practical tools to provide evidence of the prestige, impact, and rigor of your scholarly work. The session will cover:

  • What metrics are and what they mean
  • What metrics are available, including for:
    • Authors
    • Articles
    • Journals
    • Books
  • What sources provide metrics and/or tools to calculate them
  • What you need to communicate metrics
  • Link to Research Metrics LibGuide

Sharing your Research on BYU’s Institutional Repository

This session will provide an introduction to ScholarsArchive, BYU's Institutional Repository.

  • Learn how to create a free account to add your article, project, poster, or dataset to ScholarsArchive and obtain a shareable link for your work.
  • Find out how uploading your research to the repository will increase its discoverability.
  • Explore scholarly journals, collections, and conferences hosted in the repository.
  • Learn about statistics provided to authors concerning readership of their works around the world.

Please bring your laptop to create an account.

Fundamentals for Managing your Data

This session will teach good principles of data management including:

  • Data management lifecycle
  • File naming conventions
  • Readme files and data documentation
  • Data formats and storage

Finding open and more affordable course content

Have you thought that your students pay too much for course content? Have you wanted to maintain the high quality instruction but help the students out? There are resources for course content that can be free or more affordable. Come to this workshop to learn about the following:

  • Library Course Reserve
  • Interlibrary Loan
  • Using Library Databases
  • Finding Open Educational Resources (OER)
  • Creative Commons (CC) Licenses
  • Open Access Journals

Responsible Use of AI in Research

In this session, participants will

  • discover AI tools that might support research
  • practice using those tools, and
  • discuss the ethics and limitations of those tools.