Events by month

Join us for the next installment of Anti-Racism Reads, which will feature a discussion of the book Wayi Wah! Indigenous Pedagogies: An Act for Reconciliation and Anti-Racist Education by Jo Chrona. 

[All available free copies have been given out] We have copies of this book available at no cost to reduce barriers to participation. Please indicate when you register if you would like a copy.

Event details:

Author: Jo Chrona

When: Thursday October 3, 2024 
Time: 6 – 7:00 p.m. EST 
Where: Online via Teams

A panel discussion hosted by the University Librarian, Beth Sandore Namachchivaya, featuring librarians Brie McConnell and Kate Mercer, and associate professor and director of Waterloo's U&AI Lab, Lai-Tze Fan. 

Systematic Reviews for the Environmental Sciences    

Date: Wednesday October 9 

Time: 1 - 3 p.m.  

Location: Teams 

Take your literature review one step further!  

Geared towards graduate students in the environmental sciences who wish to conduct a systematic review for either a thesis, coursework or journal publication, this workshop will outline systematic review methods and search strategy development through a combination of presentation and interactive activities.   

Open Access Week: Predatory Publishing: How to Select a Journal and Avoid Bad Publishers    

Date: Monday October 21, 2024 

Time: 2 - 3 p.m.  

Location: Teams 

Facilitators: Lauren Byl and Farzaneh Keramati

Open Access Week: Reproducibility and Replicability in Research

Date: Tuesday October 22, 2024

Time: 10 – 11 a.m.

Location: Teams

Facilitator: Anneliese Eber

Open Access Week: Increasing Research Impact and Academic Prestige through Open Access Publishing    

Date: Wednesday October 23, 2024

Time: 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Location: Dana Porter Library Computer Lab (LIB 329)

Facilitator: Laura Bredahl

Are you a researcher with questions about the citation impact of Open Access (OA) publishing?

Open Access Week: Publishing Open Access (for free!) as a Humanities Scholar    

Date: Wednesday October 23, 2024

Time: 1 - 2 p.m.

Location: Teams

Facilitator: Priscilla Carmini and Lauren Byl

Open Access Week: Claim your research identity with ORCID    

Date: Wednesday October 23, 2024

Time: 2 – 3 p.m.

Location: Dana Porter Library Computer Lab (Room 329)

Facilitators: Mary Ochana and Tashayla Gouthro

Are you a graduate student looking to establish your research identity?

Open Access Week: Publishing Open Access (for free!) as a STEM Scholar    

Date: Thursday October 24, 2024

Time: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Location: Teams

Facilitator: Priscilla Carmini and Lauren Byl

Data Journeys: Data Foundations, A Beginner's Guide to Understanding and Using Data   

Date: October 29 

Time: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.  

Location: Zoom 

Introduction to GIS: Using ArcGIS for Research

Date: Tuesday October 29, 2024

Time: 2 – 3 p.m.

Location: Dana Porter Library Computer Lab (Room 329)

Facilitators: Markus Wieland and Eva Dodsworth

GIS is a multi-disciplinary tool that is widely used across campus. Join this one-hour session to learn how you can incorporate GIS in your research, coursework and thesis.

Systematic and Scoping Review Series: Systematic and Scoping Review Methods    

Date: Wednesday October 30, 2024 

Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.   

Location: Davis Centre Library, room 1568

Facilitator: Caitlin Carter, liaison librarian