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Tutorial Videos
Brown School Library Sessions
Additional Sessions at WUSTL
Brown School Library Session Handouts
Feel free to attend the following library sessions. Many of the sessions offer hands-on instruction. In addition to Brown School Library sessions, the list includes selected sessions from WashU's Becker Medical Library, WashU's Olin Library, and WashU's Center for Career Engagement.
Catalog of Library Materials
Learn how to search the catalog, request WashU items, set up a reading history, and renew checked out items. No registration needed.
By appointment or Recorded session
Course Reserves Tips
Learn how to find and use the Brown School course reserves located in the Library Catalog and Ares.
Please email the Library for a one-on-one or small group appointment: brownlibrary@wustl.edu
Don’t Sign Your Rights Away: Author's Rights
Hope to publish an article in the future? Learn how to retain your copyrights so you can freely use your own work for teaching, scholarly, and professional activities. Otherwise, you may have to pay the publisher in order to use your own work. Learn about WashU's open access repository for articles. No registration needed.
By appointment or PowerPoint slides
Evidence-Based Resources
Learn about the evidence-based resources. Covers evidence-based databases, websites, and filters. These resources should save you some time when doing evidence-based assignments. No registration needed.
By appointment or Tutorial
Finding Similar Phrases for Database Searching
Learn how to find similar phrases in order to expand your database search. Covers the research guide tab, database thesauri, database words, and a thesaurus. No registration needed.
By appointment or Recorded session
Framing Public and Open-Access Scholarship for Professional Advancement
Ambiguity about how non-traditional forms of academic publication, like public scholarship or open-access publications, “count” for tenure and promotion purposes can be a barrier to pursuing these valuable scholarly activities – but it doesn’t need to be. This seminar will provide strategies for how to frame such work and demonstrate its value to internal and external evaluators.
October 30, noon - 1:30 p.m., Eads Hall, Room 217
Please register: https://library.wustl.edu/events/framing-public-and-open-access-scholarship-for-professional-advancement
GIS Week in November (Geographic Information Systems) (November 2024)
Learn about some geospatial resources at WUSTL.
Green Get-It Button
Learn how to use the green get-it button to retrieve full text items. Learn what to do when the full text doesn't display. No registration needed.
By appointment or Recorded session
Interlibrary Loan (Mobius and ILLiad)
WashU cannot buy every book and journal that is available. Learn how to use the interlibrary loan system to request items that WashU does not own. No registration needed.
By appointment or Recorded session
Introduction to Text Mining with Constellate
Learn about the principles of text mining using Constellate, a JSTOR’s text mining platform from JSTOR. Constellate provides tools for building a large dataset, using items from JSTOR and other digital collections, cleaning the dataset, analyzing the dataset using a range of tools, and visualizing the results. This session will introduce users to Constellate, show how to create a dataset and visualizations, and review some of the advanced options to accessing Jupyter notebooks for using Python to analyze texts.
November 4, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., Olin Library, Instruction Rm. 2 & Zoom
Please register: https://library.wustl.edu/events/introduction-to-text-mining-with-constellate-2
Library Resources After Graduation
Learn about the library resources that are available to you after you graduate. No registration needed.
November 18, 8:30 - 9:00 p.m., via Zoom
November 20, 8:30 - 9:00 p.m., via Zoom
November 21, 9:00 - 9:30 a.m., via Zoom
November 21, 4:15 - 4:45 p.m., Goldfarb Hall, room 359
By appointment or PowerPoint
Love Data Week (expected February 2025)
Medline via PubMed: A Fantastic, Free Health Database
Learn how to effectively search Medline via PubMed for public health, psychological, and therapeutic information. Covers MeSH searching, applying limits, using the search history, changing the results display, accessing full text, using the evidence-based clinical queries, and more. No registration needed.
By appointment or Recorded session
Open Access Month (October 2024)
A series of events highlighting trends in open science, open data and open access. Presented by Bernard Becker Medical Library and Washington University Libraries with sponsorship from the Digital Intelligence & Innovation (DI2) Accelerator.
https://becker.wustl.edu/open-october/
Python Workshops
Recorded sessions are in the Previous Workshops section, Python tab: https://becker.wustl.edu/services/research-computing/
Introduction to Text Analysis in Python Series
This four-session course will provide participants with an introduction to analyzing textual data using Python. This course is intended for graduate students, faculty and staff from any field at WashU who are interested in learning about quantitative text analysis and would like to become familiar with the main libraries and functions used to work with textual data in Python. Participants are expected to have a basic proficiency in Python. Participants who have taken TRIADS Introduction to Python class are welcome to attend. This class will be fully in-person, and participants will use their own laptops.
November 4, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., Part 1, Olin Library, Instruction Room 3
November 6, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., Part 2, Olin Library, Instruction Room 3
November 11, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., Part 3, Olin Library, Instruction Room 3
November 13, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., Part 4, Olin Library, Instruction Room 3
Please register: https://library.wustl.edu/events/introduction-to-text-analysis-in-python-series
R Workshops
Recorded sessions available. Introduction to R sessions: https://wustl.app.box.com/s/xz68on19wnnp8o0jtctz5h8i4pvcaaqn
Recorded sessions available: Advanced Data Visualization and data wrangling in R: https://wustl.app.box.com/s/gsxu4l7qma5yfgqdd60zzayj9kii0v7e
REDCap Workshops
REDCap is a secure, web-based application for building and managing online databases and surveys, but you do not need web development or computer programming experience to use REDCap. REDCap has built-in quality assurance/quality improvement features and is HRPO compliant. If you have a WUSTL Key, you can use REDCap for free! Note: some REDCap workshops are recorded. The recordings are available at the following website: Recorded sessions available
Search Strategies for Database Searching
Learn about the basic search strategies and use them in a database search in order to find relevant articles. Covers Boolean Operators, truncation, phrase searching, field qualification, proximity operators, using the search history, and applying limits. No registration needed.
November 8, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Goldfarb Hall, room 359
November 11, 8:30 - 9:30 p.m., via Zoom
By appointment or Tutorial
Social Explorer Census & Social Statistics
Learn how to use Social Explorer for census and social statistics. Generate maps. Overview of the 2010 census and the American Community Survey. Produce statistical reports through the Premade, Keyword, and table features (age, race, households, education, income, etc.). No registration needed.
By appointment
Social Welfare Policies & Services Class: Library Resources
Learn about library resources that may help you with your Social Welfare Policies & Services class assignments. Covers Congress.gov, ProQuest Congressional, CQ Researcher, PAIS, and more. No registration needed.
By appointment
Tour the Brown School Library
Take a walking tour of the Brown School Library and learn where the resources are located. No registration needed.
By appointment
Zotero Sessions
-1- Zotero Citation Manager
Learn how to use Zotero to organize citations and create APA bibliographies. No registration needed.
October 30, 8:30 - 9:30 p.m., via Zoom
October 31, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., Goldfarb Hall, room 359
November 1, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Goldfarb Hall, room 359
November 5, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., Goldfarb Hall, room 359
November 13, 8:30 - 9:30 p.m., via Zoom
November 14, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., via Zoom
By appointment or Recorded session
Here is the above list in chronological order:
October 30, noon - 1:30 p.m., Framing Public and Open-Access Scholarship for Professional Advancement, Eads Hall, Room 217
October 30, 8:30 - 9:30 p.m., Zotero Citation Manager, via Zoom
October 31, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., Zotero Citation Manager, Goldfarb Hall, room G359
November 1, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Zotero Citation Manager, Goldfarb Hall, room G359
November 4, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., Part 1, Introduction to Text Analysis in Python Series, Olin Library, Instruction Room 3
November 4, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., Introduction to Text Mining with Constellate, Olin Library, Instruction Rm. 2 & Zoom
November 5, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., Zotero Citation Manager, Goldfarb Hall, room 359
November 6, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., Part 2, Introduction to Text Analysis in Python Series, Olin Library, Instruction Room 3
November 8, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Search Strategies for Database Searching, Goldfarb Hall, room 359
November 11, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., Part 3, Introduction to Text Analysis in Python Series, Olin Library, Instruction Room 3
November 11, 8:30 - 9:30 p.m., Search Strategies for Database Searching, via Zoom
November 13, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., Part 4, Introduction to Text Analysis in Python Series, Olin Library, Instruction Room 3
November 13, 8:30 - 9:30 p.m., Zotero Citation Manager, via Zoom
November 14, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Zotero Citation Manager, via Zoom
November 18, 8:30 - 9:00 p.m., Library Resources after Graduation, via Zoom
November 20, 8:30 - 9:00 p.m., Library Resources after Graduation, via Zoom
November 21, 9:00 - 9:30 a.m., Library Resources after Graduation, via Zoom
November 21, 4:15 - 4:45 p.m., Library Resources after Graduation, Goldfarb Hall, room 359
