This Libraries-based series of workshops and presentations supports the goals of the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at the Franklin Humanities Institute. The PhD Lab provides an arena in which PhD students in humanities and interpretive social sciences can learn about new digital scholarship, engage with its challenges, and see its promise for their own research and professional lives within or outside the university. The PhD Lab seeks to balance the practical and the conceptual by allowing participants to prototype projects and receive peer feedback to enrich their understanding of the potential of digital scholarship. Duke University Libraries contributes to this work through programs that provide training in digital scholarship methods, conceptual engagement with the issues and opportunities afforded by new technologies, and opportunities for partnership around digital scholarship projects.
Citation Management for the Savvy Academic
When: October 17, 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM
Where: 218 Perkins Library
Co-Sponsored by Duke University Libraries & PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge
Description: Today’s citation management software programs are not merely the latest tools available to help academics organize information. As open source, cloud-based, and supportive of cross-disiplinary and cross-institutional collaboration, citation management tools represent new ways and philosophies of conducting academic research. Duke University Librarian Ciara Healy presents an overview of the reasons behind choosing different citation management tools and their affordances for more expansive research. This workshop will include a demonstration and discussion of the affordances of Zotero in particular for cross-disciplinary work, as well as the use of Mendeley and Endnote (presented by Librarians Carson Holloway and Meghan Gamsby).
Participants are encouraged to bring laptops to support hands-on use of these tools. Library laptops can also be checked out for use with the workshop.
Attendance limited. Priority will be given to PhD Lab students and affiliated faculty. Register to attend by October 15: https://library.duke.edu/events/digital-scholarship/event.do?id=6407&occur=13871