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.
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.