The Terman Library librarians offer workshops on advanced searching techniques available in Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and SearchWorks, bibliographic management tools including Mendeley, Refworks, EndNote and Zotero, research sources for grants and research funding, standards, patents and material science.  Workshops are held in the Huang Engineering Center. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend.  If the session you want is not being offered this term, or if you want to suggest a workshop that we can add, please email us at engreference@stanford.edu

View all the workshops offered by the libraries.

Overview of the citation management tools available at Stanford University: EndNote, RefWorks, Mendeley and Zotero.

Citation Tools Workshop materials

• Citation tools comparison chart
• Powerpoint slides

Mendeley is a desktop application and web-based software that indexes and organizes all of your PDF documents and research articles. Learn how to organize your collection, collaborate with other researchers and discover new research articles. Join the Mendeley Stanford Group for more storage and ready access to other Stanford researchers.

Mendeley Workshop materials

• Mendeley Fact Sheet
• Mendeley Presentation

Overleaf is a collaborative cloud based LaTeX tool which makes the process of writing, editing and publishing articles faster and easier.  New to LaTeX?  This tool will help you learn the basics and collaborate with others. 

Join the Stanford Overleaf Group for more storage and secure collaboration.

Overleaf Tutorial

• Introduction to Overleaf

This workshop is on the basics and process of writing grant proposals with information on the many resources available to grant writers at Stanford.  Limited seating. 

Grant writing workshop slides

• Very Basic Grant Writing slides
• NSF Grant Writing slides

A hands-on workshop on searching Pivot, Grants.gov and the Foundation Directory Online to locate funding opportunities in many disciplines. Includes federal, non-federal, and international agencies. Bring your laptop, tablet or Chromebook to set up your PIVOT profile and e-mail updates.

• Finding Funding slides

RefWorks is a web-based citation management tool to help you organize your research references and format your bibliographies. This workshop will provide an overview of RefWorks, both the current (legacy) RefWorks platform and the beta (new) RefWorks interface, which is expected to include most legacy RefWorks features by late 2016. Attend this workshop to understand the key differences between the two interfaces and to see both interfaces in action.

Google Scholar offers great resources for researchers, this workshop will focus on Google Scholar and other tools for finding research articles, patents, technical conferences including Web of Science, Scopus, and Stanford's multi-site search tool, xSearch.  Learn how to use Scopus, Web of Science, xSearch and Google Scholar to search smarter and faster.

Workshop materials

• Powerpoint slides
• Database comparison chart
• Search tips handout

Prof. Olav Solgaard and George Plosker of IEEE will co-present the workshop.  Topics to be covered included:

• Tips on how to select an appropriate IEEE periodical or conference, how to organize your manuscript, and how to work through the peer review process.
• Learn how successful IEEE authors structure articles to improve acceptance.
• Understand how to avoid common mistakes and ethical lapses that will prevent your manuscript from being accepted.
• Tips on how the IEEE Xplore Digital Library can help when writing technical papers, including how to stay up-to-date on the latest research using saved search alerts.
• Information on IEEE author tools and Open Access options within IEEE journals.

Presentations

• How to write a technical paper--Solgaard
• IEEE author tools and publication information--Plosker

Workshop sponsored by the Terman Engineering Library and IEEE.

EndNote 7X or EndNoteWeb software indexes and organizes all of your citations. Learn how to create output in a variety of bibliographic styles, or move to another citation management platform.  Covers the new EndNote Manuscript Matcher and other new features.

  Workshops on EndNote are frequently held at the School of Education and the School of Medicine. Former Workshop materials are still available.

• EndNote Online User Guide
• The Little EndNote How-to Book
• Training Videos
• Using Off Campus - VPN for search
• Using Off Campus - Find Full Text

Tips and tools from the library on finding collaborators, places to publish, tracking your publications, and more.

Workshop materials

• Powerpoint slides