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How You Build Your Search Matters: Unveiling the Bias

Mar 6, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Learn to recognize the different types of bias that can affect literature searches and discover practical strategies to minimize both your own biases and those inherent in databases, ensuring more accurate and comprehensive search results. Whether you are a novice researcher or an experienced academic, this workshop offers valuable insights to enhance your ability to critically assess search strategies and results, fostering a more objective approach to literature research.

Romancing the Research: Gray Literature and Pre-Prints

Feb 13, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Consider other types of research by learning about gray literature and pre-prints. Major types of gray literature that will be discussed include clinical trials, datasets, dissertations & theses, and government reports. This workshop will teach you what gray literature and pre-prints are, where to find them, and their different uses in research.

Bibliometric Basics

Jan 29, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

What are bibliometrics, and do they matter? Learn how to assess research influence and make meaning out of stats like Journal Impact Factor, H-Index, and Altmetrics.

PubMed Essentials

Jan 22, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Learn how to capitalize on PubMed’s research support capabilities by discovering its suite of tools and customizations. Build a search in PubMed using features including MeSH headings, keywords and field codes, limits and other features.

Intro to R Workshop

Feb 3, 2025, 2:00 – 3:30 PM

Join us for the first installment of the R Workshop Series, where you will learn the basics of R and RStudio. You will learn how to install and run packages, do basic arithmetic, create and name objects, work with functions, create and subset vectors, and much more. No previous experience with R or coding needed to participate in this workshop.

Data Visualizations with ggplot2 in R Workshop

Apr 7, 2025, 10:00 – 11:00 AM

Join us for the final installment of the R Workshop Series, where the focus will be on creating data visualizations in R. Learn how to build graphics using the ggplot2 package in R. Participation in the first installment of the R Workshop Series, Intro to R, or a working knowledge of R/RStudio is highly recommended.

Data Visualizations with ggplot2 in R Workshop

Apr 7, 2025, 2:00 – 3:00 PM

Data Cleaning in R Workshop

Mar 3, 2025, 2:00 – 3:30 PM

Join us for the second installment of the R Workshop Series, where the focus will be on cleaning data in R. You will learn how to import data, extract information from data frames/tibbles, subset data, merge datasets, format dates, and more. Participation in the first installment of the R Workshop Series, Intro to R, or a working knowledge of R/RStudio is highly recommended.

Data Cleaning in R Workshop

Mar 3, 2025, 10:00 – 11:30 AM

Introduction to Text Mining with Chronicling America Newspapers

Feb 12, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Interested in learning about the millions of digitized newspapers in the Library of Congress's Chronicling America collection and the types of insights you can gain through quantitative analysis of them? Come join us for this hands-on workshop, which will cover: - Accessing historical newspapers through Chronicling America's user interface. - Sending and receiving data between computers with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

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