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Support for Publishing Workshops

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.

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Sep 05
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Write Your Dissertation With LaTeX and Overleaf!

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.

  • September 5, 2024
  • 10:00am - 11:00am
  • Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange (RDDSx), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, First Floor
Student studying a binder of papers.
Oct 09
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students Only

Where to Publish in the Health Sciences

This class will outline current scholarly communication practices, review publishing options, and consider strategies for selecting journals in which to publish.

  • October 9, 2024
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Collaborative Classroom, Holman Biotech Commons
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Oct 11
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Red Flags for Low Quality Publishing

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.

  • October 11, 2024
  • 12:15pm - 12:45pm
  • Hybrid event: Online and in-person in Class of 1955 Conference Room, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, Second Floor
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Oct 15
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

R Markdown​: Code and Author in the Same File

Tired of jumping between R and a text editor? This workshop will get you started using R Markdown to write and export a formatted assignment or paper.

  • October 15, 2024
  • 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  • Hybrid event: Online and in Class of 1955 Conference Room, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, Second Floor
Oct 16
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Facilitating Literature Reviews with Covidence

Learn how Covidence can facilitate the processing of literature when writing a review paper or developing other scientific work that requires document screening. 

  • October 16, 2024
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Collaborative Classroom, Holman Biotech Commons
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Nov 19
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students Only

Zotero 101

In this workshop, we will walk you through the basics of using Zotero to save and organize sources as well as generate citations. 

  • November 19, 2024
  • 11:00am - 12:30pm
  • Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, Third Floor, Room 304
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Jan 24
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students Only

Write Your Dissertation With LaTeX and Overleaf!

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!

  • January 24, 2024
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange, First Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Poster for the events "Write Your Dissertation with LaTeX and Overleaf"
Feb 07
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students Only

Write Your Dissertation With LaTeX and Overleaf!

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!

  • February 7, 2024
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange, First Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Poster for the events "Write Your Dissertation with LaTeX and Overleaf"
Feb 07
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Zotero 101 (virtual)

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.

  • February 7, 2024
  • 11:30am - 1:00pm
  • Online
Poster for the event Zotero 101
Feb 09
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Data Storytelling: Communicate your findings and influence your audience

This workshop offers participants valuable insights into effectively communicating data-driven findings and creating compelling narratives to engage their audience.

  • February 9, 2024
  • 12:15pm - 12:45pm
  • Meyerson Conference Room 223, Second Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and Online
Poster for the Lunch and Learn series at the Graduate Student Center
Feb 13
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

LaTeX Reference Management with BibTeX

Working on your thesis or dissertation? Want to learn more about formatting academic publications? Come learn about using BibTeX, the bibliographic side of LaTeX!

  • February 13, 2024
  • 10:30am - 11:30am
  • Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange, First Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Poster for the event LaTex Reference Management
Feb 16
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Introduction to Data Visualization

Data visualizations are found everywhere! In this workshop, you'll learn how to create and use them in your work.

  • February 16, 2024
  • 9:30am - 11:00am
  • Gershwind & Bennett Family Collaborative Classroom, Holman Biotech Commons, Main Level, & Online
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Mar 01
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students Only

The Future of Sharing your Research? The Rise of Preprint Peer Review

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.

  • March 1, 2024
  • 12:15pm - 12:45pm
  • Meyerson Conference Room 223, Second Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and Online
Poster for the Lunch and Learn series at the Graduate Student Center
Mar 12
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Zotero 101 (in-person)

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.

  • March 12, 2024
  • 11:30am - 1:00pm
  • Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, Third Floor, Room 304
Poster for the event Zotero 101
Mar 12
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students Only

Write Your Dissertation With LaTeX and Overleaf!

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!

  • March 12, 2024
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange, First Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Poster for the events "Write Your Dissertation with LaTeX and Overleaf"
Mar 15
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Podcasting As Scholarly Publications

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. 

  • March 15, 2024
  • 12:15pm - 12:45pm
  • Class of 1955 Conference Room (241), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center (2nd Floor)
Poster for the Lunch and Learn series at the Graduate Student Center
Mar 22
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Predatory Publishing: Red Flags

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.

  • March 22, 2024
  • 12:15pm - 12:45pm
  • Meyerson Conference Room 223, Second Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and Online
Poster for the Lunch and Learn series at the Graduate Student Center
Mar 29
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Special Event: Demystifying Publishing

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

  • March 29, 2024
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Meyerson Conference Room 223, Second Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and Online
Poster for the Lunch and Learn series at the Graduate Student Center
Apr 05
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students Only

Dissertation and Copyright

This workshop will provide basic but essential information on how copyright law applies to the writing and deposit of your dissertation.

  • April 5, 2024
  • 12:15pm - 12:45pm
  • Meyerson Conference Room 223, Second Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and Online
Poster for the Lunch and Learn series at the Graduate Student Center
Apr 12
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Author Contracts

This workshop will discuss common author contract provisions, especially as they relate to copyright and the rights you may retain after signing.

  • April 12, 2024
  • 12:15pm - 12:45pm
  • Meyerson Conference Room 223, Second Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and Online
Poster for the Lunch and Learn series at the Graduate Student Center
Apr 19
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Data Storytelling

Come and learn how to better communicate your conclusions and drive engagement for your data visualizations. 

  • April 19, 2024
  • 12:15pm - 12:45pm
  • Meyerson Conference Room 223, Second Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and Online
Poster for the Lunch and Learn series at the Graduate Student Center
Apr 26
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students Only

You Finished Your Dissertation, Now What?

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. 

  • April 26, 2024
  • 12:15pm - 12:45pm
  • Meyerson Conference Room 223, Second Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and Online
Poster for the Lunch and Learn series at the Graduate Student Center
Sep 06
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Write Your Dissertation With LaTeX and Overleaf!

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!

  • September 6, 2023
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Goldstein Electronic Classroom (Room 114), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
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Sep 12
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

LaTeX Reference Management with BibTeX

Working on your thesis or dissertation? Want to learn more about formatting academic publications? Come learn about using BibTeX, the bibliographic side of LaTeX!

  • September 12, 2023
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Goldstein Electronic Classroom (Room 114)
LIBRA stacks
Sep 14
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Write Your Dissertation With LaTeX and Overleaf!

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!

  • September 14, 2023
  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm
  • Goldstein Electronic Classroom (Room 114), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Student studying a binder of papers.
Sep 20
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Facilitating Literature Reviews -- Covidence

Presented by Maylene Qiu, Systematic Review Coordinator and Clinical Liaison Librarian, and Frank Campbell, Medical Education Liaison

  • September 20, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Graduate Center at Penn
Sep 21
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

LaTeX Reference Management with BibTeX

Working on your thesis or dissertation? Want to learn more about formatting academic publications? Come learn about using BibTeX, the bibliographic side of LaTeX!

  • September 21, 2023
  • 10:30am - 11:30am
  • Gershwin & Bennett Family Collaborative Classroom
LIBRA stacks
Sep 27
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students Only

Where to Publish for the Health Sciences Community

Presented by Maylene Qiu, Systematic Review Coordinator and Clinical Liaison Librarian, and Melanie Cedrone, Biotech Commons Librarian

  • September 27, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Graduate Center at Penn
Event registration poster.
Oct 06
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Digital Publishing at Penn

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.

  • October 6, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, Third Floor, Room 304
Oct 10
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Introduction to EndNote: Managing your Citations

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.

  • October 10, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Virtual
Oct 18
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

LaTeX Reference Management with BibTeX

Working on your thesis or dissertation? Want to learn more about formatting academic publications? Come learn about using BibTeX, the bibliographic side of LaTeX!

  • October 18, 2023
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange (RDDSx), First Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Oct 20
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Make Your ORCiD Work for You

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.

  • October 20, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, Third Floor, Room 304
Oct 24
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Zotero 101

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.

  • October 24, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, Third Floor, Room 304
Oct 25
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Write Your Dissertation With LaTeX and Overleaf!

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.

  • October 25, 2023
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange (RDDSx), First Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Oct 27
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Introduction to Image Permissions

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.

  • October 27, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, Third Floor (Room 304)
Nov 03
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Image Permissions Part II: Finding Images

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).

  • November 3, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, Third Floor (Room 304)
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Nov 06
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Ethical Dissertation Writing: Reuse, Permission, and References

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.

  • November 6, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Third Floor, Room 304, Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk
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Nov 10
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Seeking Image Permissions for Publishing: Part III

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.

  • November 10, 2023
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, Third Floor (Room 304)
Photograph of library stacks and study space
Feb 07
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Introduction to EndNote: Managing your Citations

Learn how EndNote can help you with research management, note taking, and citation creation.

  • February 7, 2023
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Graduate Center at Penn
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Feb 08
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Zotero 101

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.

  • February 8, 2023
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Online
Zotero logo.
Feb 09
  • Workshop
Open to the Public

RefWorks: Getting Started and Troubleshooting

RefWorks provides an easy way to organize your PDFs and save your references as you collect them.

  • February 9, 2023
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Goldstein Electronic Classroom (Room 114), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
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Feb 13
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students Only

Introduction to Data Visualization

Data visualizations are found everywhere!

  • February 13, 2023
  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm
  • Graduate Center at Penn
Feb 16
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Ethical Dissertation Writing: Reuse, Permission, and References

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.

  • February 16, 2023
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Graduate Center at Penn
Student studying a binder of papers.
Feb 20
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students Only

Introduction to Online Academic Profile Services

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.

  • February 20, 2023
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Graduate Center at Penn
Mar 14
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Image Use and Permissions for Research and Publishing

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.

  • March 14, 2023
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Graduate Center at Penn
Mar 16
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

What to Know Before Starting Your Dissertation

This virtual workshop surveys key considerations, tools, and resources aimed at simplifying the process of beginning and writing your dissertation.

  • March 16, 2023
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Online
Mar 21
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Open Educational Resources

In this workshop, we'll talk about open educational resources as alternatives to traditional textbooks and other course materials.

  • March 21, 2023
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Online
Mar 23
  • Workshop
Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Where to Publish for the Health Sciences Community

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. 

  • March 23, 2023
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Online