Learn the ins and outs of the publishing process through a series of workshops hosted by the Penn Libraries in collaboration with the Grad Center at Penn. Find sessions covering citation management, impact metrics, promoting your work, selecting the right publishing venue, fair use, and more. The Penn Libraries also offers services and support for authors through consultations and online resources year-round.
Getting ready to write your thesis or dissertation? Want to learn more about formatting academic publications? Come learn how LaTeX and Overleaf can help you!
Getting ready to write your thesis or dissertation? Want to learn more about formatting academic publications? Come learn how LaTeX and Overleaf can help you!
In this virtual workshop, we will walk you through the basics of using Zotero to save and organize sources as well as generate citations. You'll also learn how Zotero integrates with Microsoft Word for cite-while-you-write convenience.
This workshop offers participants valuable insights into effectively communicating data-driven findings and creating compelling narratives to engage their audience.
Working on your thesis or dissertation? Want to learn more about formatting academic publications? Come learn about using BibTeX, the bibliographic side of LaTeX!
Data visualizations are found everywhere! In this workshop, you'll learn how to create and use them in your work.
Federal agencies and private foundations are moving toward requiring immediate public access to funded research. Preprint platforms offer an avenue for public access that does not require a heft of article processing charge (APC). This option becomes more attractive as a system of journal-independent peer review develops.
In this workshop, we will walk you through the basics of using Zotero to save and organize sources as well as generate citations. You'll also learn how Zotero integrates with Microsoft Word for cite-while-you-write convenience.
Getting ready to write your thesis or dissertation? Want to learn more about formatting academic publications? Come learn how LaTeX and Overleaf can help you!
This talk will introduce some of the approaches graduate students and early career scholars are taking to create or contribute to podcasts in order to share research more broadly, as well as tools to get started with podcasting at Penn.
In this workshop, you will learn about the ins and outs of predatory publishing, including how to recognize red flags, and how to shield yourself from publishing in low-quality journals.
Join us for an overview of logistics for creating podcasts with resources available to Graduate Students at Penn.
Cosette Bruhns Alonso, Contemporary Publishing Fellow at Penn Libraries, and Jenny Tan, Acquisitions Editor at Penn Press, will share steps and considerations for publishing a book
This workshop will provide basic but essential information on how copyright law applies to the writing and deposit of your dissertation.
This workshop will discuss common author contract provisions, especially as they relate to copyright and the rights you may retain after signing.
Come and learn how to better communicate your conclusions and drive engagement for your data visualizations.
You're writing or have finished your dissertation...what's next? Are you planning on publishing based on your dissertation? How does copyright fit in? What are publishers looking for? This workshop will cover these issues and more, discussing your scholarship now and in the future.
Getting ready to write your thesis or dissertation? Want to learn more about formatting academic publications? Come learn how LaTeX and Overleaf can help you!
Working on your thesis or dissertation? Want to learn more about formatting academic publications? Come learn about using BibTeX, the bibliographic side of LaTeX!
Getting ready to write your thesis or dissertation? Want to learn more about formatting academic publications? Come learn how LaTeX and Overleaf can help you!
Citation managers provide an easy way to organize your pdfs and save your references as you collect them.
Presented by Maylene Qiu, Systematic Review Coordinator and Clinical Liaison Librarian, and Frank Campbell, Medical Education Liaison
Working on your thesis or dissertation? Want to learn more about formatting academic publications? Come learn about using BibTeX, the bibliographic side of LaTeX!
Learn how you can get your message across with data! Light lunch will also be provided.
Presented by Maylene Qiu, Systematic Review Coordinator and Clinical Liaison Librarian, and Melanie Cedrone, Biotech Commons Librarian
Learn more about the rise of preprints in scholarly publishing with Rebecca Stuhr.
This presentation will introduce the landscape of digital and multimodal scholarly publishing, including the digital publishing services and platforms available at Penn. Come find out more about the digital turn in scholarly publishing, including integrating video, audio, and media files, technology learning curves, and other considerations for creating, evaluating, publishing, and discovering digital and multimodal scholarship.
Learn how EndNote can help you with research management, note taking, and citation creation. This workshop will focus on EndNote on the Web, a freely available tool for all Penn faculty, staff, and students. Judith Currano will be leading this workshop.
Working on your thesis or dissertation? Want to learn more about formatting academic publications? Come learn about using BibTeX, the bibliographic side of LaTeX!
Open Researcher and Contributor ID, better known as "OrCiD," provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you and your research activities from every other researcher, ensuring that you are recognized as the author of your work. Learn how and why to connect your OrCiD so your work is easy to find.
In this workshop, we will walk you through the basics of using Zotero to save and organize sources as well as generate citations. You'll also learn how Zotero integrates with Microsoft Word and Google Docs for cite-while-you-write convenience.
Getting ready to write your thesis or dissertation? Want to learn more about formatting academic publications? Come learn how LaTeX and Overleaf can help you! Attendees are asked to bring their own computers.
In this session Deb Stewart (Head, Penn Museum Library), and Mia D'Avanza (Assistant Director, Fisher Fine Arts Library) share their expertise and explain why some publishers, conferences, and dissertation guidelines require that you obtain permissions for images in your scholarship.
In this session, Mia D'Avanza (Assistant Director, Fisher Fine Arts Library) and Deb Stewart (Head, Penn Museum Library) will discuss how to find images to use in dissertations and other scholarly publications.
Registration required (priority given to graduate students).
This session, led by Judith Currano (head of Penn's Chemistry Library, former chair of the American Chemical Society's Committee on Ethics), will examine ethical norms surrounding the reuse and documentation of your own and others’ previously-published work in your dissertation.
Join Deb Stewart (Head, Penn Museum Library), and Mia D'Avanza (Assistant Director, Fisher Fine Arts Library) as they demonstrate with a few common examples and share their tips for seeking image permissions.
In this workshop, Rebecca Stuhr will teach you how to use Mendeley to assist you in your research.
Learn how EndNote can help you with research management, note taking, and citation creation.
In this virtual workshop, librarian Joanna Thompson will walk you through the basics of using Zotero to save and organize sources as well as generate citations.
RefWorks provides an easy way to organize your PDFs and save your references as you collect them.
Data visualizations are found everywhere!
This session, led by Judith Currano, the head of Penn’s Chemistry Library and former chair of the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Ethics, will examine ethical norms surrounding the reuse and documentation of your own and others’ previously-published work in your dissertation.
Manuel de la Cruz Gutierrez will lead a presentation on how to use different academic profiles and associated networks to track and promote your work.
Sharing your work enables you to reach the broadest audience. It can not only help you connect with your peers and with scholars in your field, but more broadly in the academic world and to the general public.
You're writing or have finished your dissertation...what's next?
In this session Deb Stewart (Head, Penn Museum Library), and Mia D'Avanza (Assistant Director, Fisher Fine Arts Library) will share their expertise in understanding image rights and seeking permissions to use in dissertations and other publications.
This virtual workshop surveys key considerations, tools, and resources aimed at simplifying the process of beginning and writing your dissertation.
In this workshop, we'll talk about open educational resources as alternatives to traditional textbooks and other course materials.
This class will outline current scholarly communication practices, review publishing options and consider strategies for selecting journals in which to publish. You will learn the tools that will aid in the selection and evaluation of journals, the influence of journal impact factors, and the implications of open-access publishing for your scientific work.