Business Research Help

It's the end of the quarter and your projects are due! Get help from a librarian with a live online workshop tailored to business students.

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Conflict Resolution Drop-in Research Workshop

CR papers coming due? Stop by this drop-in workshop to get one-on-one help from Conflict Resolution Librarian Joan Petit. We'll have laptops you can use to work individually or in small groups.

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Current Awareness: Keeping up with Research in Your Area

Information on the tools available for keeping up with the latest scholarship in your research areas. This session will cover the following topics:

*RSS Feeds vs. Email Alerts
*RSS readers and start pages
*How to create database search alerts
*How to create Journal TOC alerts
*Keeping up with new books
*Turning RSS feeds into email alerts

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Finding Articles

Learn how to use the PSU Library's databases to find the articles you need for your research. This live online workshop will help you become an efficient and effective searcher!

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Finding Articles in the Humanities

Learn how to use the PSU Library's databases to find the articles you need for your research. This live online workshop, tailored to students in the humanities, will help you become an efficient and effective searcher!

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Finding Articles in the Sciences

Learn how to use the PSU Library's databases to find the articles you need for your research. This live online workshop, tailored to students in the sciences, will help you become an efficient and effective searcher!

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Finding Articles in the Social Sciences

Learn how to use the PSU Library's databases to find the articles you need for your research. This live online workshop, tailored to students in the social sciences, will help you become an efficient and effective searcher!

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Finding Business Articles

Learn how to use the PSU Library's databases to find the articles you need for your research. This live online workshop, tailored to business students, will help you become an efficient and effective searcher!

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Grad Student Library Workshop Series: Current Awareness: Keeping up with Research in Your Area

Information on the tools available for keeping up with the latest scholarship in your research areas. This session will cover the following topics:

*RSS Feeds vs. Email Alerts
*RSS readers and start pages
*How to create database search alerts
*How to create Journal TOC alerts
*Keeping up with new books
*Turning RSS feeds into email alerts

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Grad Student Library Workshop Series: Discover Your Library

An orientation to the Library and its resources, including a brief tour of the website and building. Refreshments will be served! See http://library.pdx.edu/graduatestudentservices.html for more information. No registration required.

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Grad Student Library Workshop Series: Enrich Your Research with Data: Data Sets for the Social Sciences

You've read the theories and articles, and you know it must be true, but sometimes finding concrete data to back it up can be difficult. This hour-long workshop will cover where and how to find data sets for social sciences research.

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Grad Student Library Workshop Series: Getting Organized

Organizational skills are critical to success in research. This session will present tips for staying organized, not getting overwhelmed with information, and approaching research methodically. This runs from note taking to citation management with programs like Zotero and Mendeley. No registration required. For more information, see http://library.pdx.edu/graduatestudentservices.html

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Grad Student Library Workshop Series: Government Information

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Grad Student Library Workshop Series: Library Skills Refresh

Feeling a bit rusty after a few years out of school? Or ready to take the next step in your grad program but not quite sure how to best conduct library research? This confidence-building workshop will improve your skills in choosing search keywords, searching the library catalog, choosing and searching library databases, and using Google Scholar to find out who has cited important articles. You'll also learn how to know when it's time to consult a librarian. All grad students are welcome!

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Grad Student Library Workshop Series: Meet Your Subject Librarian

Librarians for specific subject areas will describe the library resources to support your research.

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Grad Student Library Workshop Series: Power Searching in Ovid MEDLINE

Learn to use Ovid MEDLINE like the pros! Creating power searches in Ovid MEDLINE will save you time, energy, and frustration as you complete that research project, literature review, or other school work. This session will cover the ins and outs of finding appropriate subjects to search, constructing searches using the "explode" and "focus" features, and general tips. All graduate students are welcome to attend, but it will be especially useful for students working toward MPH degrees, Gerontology Certificates, MA/MS in Health Studies, or an MPA in Health Administration.

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Grad Student Library Workshop Series: Presenting Your Scholarly Work

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Grad Student Library Workshop Series: Research on the Intellectual Frontier: Exploring Emerging Topics through the Literature

New and emerging research areas, while represented in scholarly journals and other publications, pose unique challenges for discovery. In this session, you'll learn about strategies and techniques for researching areas that are rapidly evolving and less well-defined. In addition to discovery tips within traditional scholarly publications, we will also discuss the value of grey literature--white papers, government reports, technical reports, preprints, and other materials.

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Grad Student Library Workshop Series: Scholarly Communications, Publishing, and Copyright

What rights do graduate students have as authors? Are open-access journals a viable alternative for publication? This session will address these and other questions about the quickly changing world of publishing and copyright.

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Grad Student Library Workshop Series: Special Collections, University Archives, and Digital Libraries

Not everything is online, and some online collections can be hard to find. Learn about the interesting manuscripts, papers, books, and other materials held by the Library's University Archives and Special Collections from University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Cris Paschild. Then Joan Petit will share tips and techniques for finding free, online digital libraries from archives, museums, and libraries around the world. This session will be relevant for anyone interested in archives and primary sources.

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Grad Student Library Workshop Series: The Literature Review for Conflict Resolution

Finding relevant scholarly research can be extra challenging in Conflict Resolution because it is an interdisciplinary field without any one research database that covers the entire literature. This session, intended for Conflict Resolution students working on Master's Projects but open to any grad student, will offer tips and strategies for getting to those relevant articles, no matter where they are hiding.

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Grad Student Library Workshop Series: The Literature Review for Theses and Dissertations

A thorough literature review sets the stage for success in a large research project like a thesis, dissertation, or grant proposal. This session will give students tips and strategies for conducting an effective and comprehensive literature review.

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History Research Lab

Librarian Joan Petit will be available for this drop-in lab for any students needing help finding primary and secondary sources for History papers, as well as papers in related areas like Judaic Studies.

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Library Hacks: Better, Faster Research

This live online workshop will help you become familiar with the library's services, resources and the basics of doing library research. By the end of the session, students will know how to:

• use the library website


• brainstorm appropriate keywords for searching for their topic online


• find books in PSU's WorldCat


• find articles on a specific topic in Academic Search Complete


• find resources outside of the library's collection


• get help from a librarian 24/7

The sessions will take place in a web conferencing environment called Elluminate, which requires a small Java applet download and the ability to hear audio through speakers or headphones (a microphone is recommended, but not required).

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Library Research Essentials

We encourage you to explore the Portland State Library and its resources, services, personalized research help, and more! The librarians, staff, information resources, study space, and technology in the Millar Library are available to help meet your academic needs.

Outcome: receive an introduction to the Millar Library's resources.

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Managing Resources with Zotero and Mendeley

Zotero is a web-based and desktop citation management tool that allows you to collect, organize and cite research material. Mendeley is a web-based and desktop citation management tool, but is also a social network for scholars where you can share and discover research. Both of these tools include a plugin for Microsoft Word or Open Office that allows you to insert your collected citations directly into your paper. Both are terrific tools for anyone working on a research project, as they can help you manage your research materials from multiple sources and insert them into your publications with ease.
By the end of the session students will be able to:

• determine whether Zotero or Mendeley is the right tool for them


• create a free account with either Zotero or Mendeley and install and access it from your own computer


• import citations into Zotero or Mendeley from commonly used library resources like EBSCO, JSTOR, Google Scholar, and the library catalog, as well the web


• organize citations for different projects


• use the Word or Open Office plugin to insert citations directly into their paper

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Research Clinic

Students who have a specific research need or question can attend these one hour sessions. Individuals and groups are welcome.

Outcome: research need or question will be answered

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Research Help

It's the end of the quarter and your projects are due! Get help from a librarian with a live online workshop tailored to your research needs.

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Research Help in the Humanities

It's the end of the quarter and your projects are due! Get help from a librarian with a live online workshop tailored to students in the humanities.

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Research Help in the Sciences

It's the end of the quarter and your projects are due! Get help from a librarian with a live online workshop tailored to students in the sciences.

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Research Help in the Social Sciences

It's the end of the quarter and your projects are due! Get help from a librarian with a live online workshop tailored to students in the social sciences.

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