Zotero citation management workshops

Do you want to learn about free software for saving publication information and creating in text citations and bibliographies?

Please join us for an introduction to Zotero

• Monday Apr 13, noon-1:30 pm (planning 60 minutes of content but want plenty of time for questions) - Meet us online & see free software for setting up citations! Registration deadline Apr 10, 5 pm 
• Thursday May 7, 4-5:30 pm (planning 60 mins of content but want plenty of time for questions) - Hands-on workshop in Jackson Library CITI lab. Registration link.

The libraries provide a guide to Zotero here: http://uncg.libguides.com/zotero

This Weds 3/25, hear about the history of women's physical education at UNCG!

Where: Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library
When: Wednesday, March 25th from 2:00-3:00

Founded in 1892, the State Normal and Industrial School was a pioneering institution in the history of higher education for women. Among the most interesting aspects of our University’s history is the early focus on the physical education of women. In honor of Women’s History Month, join Kathelene McCarty Smith as she presents on the history of women’s physical education at this institution prior to becoming a co-educational campus.

Students - what kind of technology do you want in the libraries?

Dear students,

• Do you check out laptops?
• Do you love the DMC?
• Do you usually print your papers in the Library?
• Is there technology you'd like to see in Jackson and Schiffman Libraries that we don't have?

Then please join us for a focus group.  Let us know what technology you use most in the Libraries and what you'd like to see in the future.

When:  Tuesday March 24, 2015  2:00 pm

Where:  Room 774 in Jackson Library

Snacks provided! Please sign up here:http://doodle.com/iu26b6hxkixvfrz7

 

If you can't come, please send us your technology suggestions: http://library.uncg.edu/mail/contactSuggLib.aspx

If you can't come, please take this opportunity to send us your technology suggestions: http://library.uncg.edu/mail/contactSuggLib.aspx

Instructors - win a mini-grant for adopting a FREE textbook for your students!

Concerned about the high cost of textbooks?  Students who don't have the textbook the first week of classes (sometimes not at all)?

Consider adopting a "free" textbook for your course.  The University Libraries and the Provost are partnering to offer ten mini-grants to support instructors who make the switch!  Application deadline is April 24, 2015.

Information sessions will be held

• April 14, noon-1 pm, Jackson Library administration conference room 216
• April 15, noon-1 pm, Jackson Library administration conference room 216

Campus Weekly story here: http://ure.uncg.edu/prod/cweekly/2015/03/17/save-your-students-money

AHRQ releases public access plans

AHRQ is requiring authors to submit peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. By October 2015, AHRQ will require researchers to submit data to a repository.

Details here: AHRQ Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Publications and Data . February 2015. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/publicaccess/index.html

**update** 2/23 - the AHRQ link isn't working and I don't see the policy posted elsewhere.  This ARL post states "[AHRQ webpage temporarily unavailable while being revised]. " 

History of African American Students at UNCG - Thurs 2/12, 2-3 pm

History of African American Students at UNCG

The history of our University represents a microcosm for the struggle for African American civil rights. In celebrating African American History Month, join Erin Lawrimore as she discusses the transformation of the State Normal and Industrial School for White Women into one of the most diverse campuses in the University of North Carolina system.

 Thursday 2/12, 2-3 pm, Jackson Library Hodges Reading Room

Qualitative Researchers! Give feedback to ITS

Thank you for expressing interest in UNCG’s Qualitative Data Analysis Software Evaluation project.  As a campus researcher, your input on selecting software to meet campus qualitative data analysis (QDA) needs is critical to us.  Your input will help guide the selection of QDA software for the UNCG network, and related training & support services available from Information Technology Services (ITS).  

UNCG/ITS has invited Paul Mihas, a qualitative research consultant at the Odum Institute at UNC-CH to present overview sessions of 5 qualitative software options: MAXQDA, Atlas.ti, NVivo, QDA Miner, and Dedoose. The primary purpose of this email is to get feedback on the best date to schedule Paul’s visit to UNCG. One of the sessions will be recorded so those unable to attend will be able to view it later.

To respond with your availability for these sessions, please complete the following poll:

http://doodle.com/cy4ipewbgzr2nd7m

This is an early step in the evaluation project . The project team’s goal is to provide the most useful software feasible within a limited budget. We recognize that many qualitative researchers at UNCG are unsatisfied with the capabilities of NVivo and Atlas.ti, yet we also recognize that dropping either or both licenses could create difficulties for some researchers. We need YOUR INPUT to guide the future of QDA support at UNCG..

We will consider all input, whether or not you attend one of these sessions.  Input will be collected via a web survey following the overview sessions.  Thank you for your time and willingness to help us improve ITS services.