The University Library’s guided tours and courses are offered regularly at both City Center and Vaihingen location, especially at the beginning of the semester, however. The number of participants per course is restricted for lack of space, so please register in time via the online registration.
If required, further events and dates can be offered – for groups, seminars, tutorials, or new employees, for example.
If you are interested, please contact: Hannah Kempe or Ute Dittmar (Vaihingen).
If you are beginning with Master's studies at University of Stuttgart and you want to use library resources, this tour is for you. On our library tour we will familiarize you with the University of Stuttgart Library's layout and resources. You will find out about opening hours, borrowing rights, loan periods, finding books and journals, requesting items, placing holds and checking your library account. You will learn how to use our online catalog and other internet-based library services. You will learn how to access electronic journals, databases and other licensed electronic resources.
The focus will be on subjects for international Master's programs of science or engineering. Other international students, scientists or employees are also welcome.
Duration: 60 minutes
In this workshop, scientists will learn how to use tools to find thematic literature related to their research focus.
You will get answers to these questions in the workshop and can apply your new knowledge directly to practical examples.
If you are attending, please make sure that your VPN access is activated.
Target audience: Scientists
Date: 17.04.2023 11:40 a.m. - 1:10 p.m.
Tool used: Zoom
Link for registration here.
Further information here.
The FAIR principles aim to optimally prepare research data for people and machines and make it accessible. They are also essential building blocks in the implementation of good scientific practice.
Suppose research data management follows the FAIR principles, e.g. by documenting research data with metadata, this contributes to the usability, discoverability as well as accessibility of research results. When researchers design their research data FAIR, this ideally leads to research processes being more efficient, research results being more comprehensible, new research questions being made possible and collaborations being facilitated.
This online seminar is an introduction to research data management and shows how FAIR principles can be implemented in everyday research through personal data management.
Speaker: Dr. Kerstin Wedlich-Zachodin (KIT-Bibliothek, Abteilung Forschungsdienste)
Target audience: Forschende, Wissenschaftliches Personal
Date: 22.05.2023 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Registration here.
Tool: Zoom
All participants will receive the login details upon registration.
More and more research funders call for a data management plan (DMP). Yet the benefits of such a plan do not end with the application. A DMP is essential for data management that ensures the discoverability, accessibility, interoperability as well as reusability of research data. That said, how do you create a data management plan with manageable effort?
Using the web-based software Research Data Management Organizer (RDMO), researchers can not only develop a data management plan but also manage their entire research project. A hands-on interactive demonstration of the software follows. For this, previous experience in research data management is an advantage.
Speaker: Dr. Kerstin Wedlich-Zachodin
Target audience: Scientific staff, researchers
Date: 24.05.2023 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Registration here.
Tool: Zoom
All participants will receive the login details upon registration.
This course will present the basics of research data management (RDM). You will learn the most important aspects of RDM and we will explain requirements by third-party funders and how you can best fulfill those requirements.
Topics:
Technical requirements here.
Target audience: Scientific staff, Researchers
Organizer: UB TU München
Date: 15.05.2023 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Registration: here
Do you know your h-index and your citation counts? How are impact factor and h-index defined and what is their relevance? How can you manage your scholarly identity to improve the visibility of your research?
This course provides you with an overview of bibliometric measures and academic identity management. You learn how to make sure that you get credit for all your publications in literature databases and how to improve your own publication strategy.
Topics:
Academic Identity Management
Bibliometrics
Bibliometrics deal with the quantitative analysis of scientific publications using statistical methods. Areas of application include research evaluation (e.g. rankings) as well as research support (e.g. identification of research trends). Altmetrics record usage indicators of electronic publications, such as downloads, mentions in social networks, etc.
You will get answers to these questions in the workshop and can apply your new knowledge directly to practical examples.
Lecturers: Harald Gerlach & Heiko Grund (ULB Darmstadt)
Date: 14.06.2023 3.20 p..m. - 4.50 p.m.
Target audience: Scientific staff, researchers
Tool used: Zoom
Registration: until 24h before start here.
Further information: here.
The number of patent applications is an important innovation indicator to show the performance of universities. Innovations, inventions and patents also play an important role at TU Darmstadt, because they contribute to profile building and are conducive to start-up projects.
You will get answers to these questions in the workshop and can apply your new knowledge directly to practical examples. Here you can find the documents for our workshop.
Lecturer: Stephan Cradock (ULB Darmstadt)
Target audience: Scientific staff, researchers
Date: 11:40 a.m. -1:10 p.m.
Tool used: Zoom
Link for registration here.
Further information here.
Presentations at renowned conferences and publications in recognized journals are the currency of science. For you as a scientist it is important to make your research visible and to publish your findings. This is what dubious organizers and publishers try to exploit with fraudulent publication offers. In this course you will learn how to identify and avoid dubious offers.
Topics:
Media coverage has made the fraudulent business models of dubious providers known to the general public. Well-known scientists suddenly found themselves exposed because they had registered for pseudo conferences or had published in predatory journals.
However, it is not always easy to identify the black sheep of scientific publishing. The course will show you how to identify and avoid dubious offers. You will learn about criteria for seriousness, evaluation portals and checklists. Of course there will also be the opportunity to ask questions.
Technical requirements here.
Target audience: Scientific staff, Researchers
Organizer: UB TU München
Date: 19.07.23 1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Registration: here
