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 or have any questions, please contact Michaela Sturm for the City Center location or Ute Dittmar for the Vaihingen location. For general questions regarding the course offerings and their coordination, please contact Hannah Kempe.
Are you new to the University of Stuttgart - as a student or employee - and would like to use the University Library? Would you like to use the University Library as an external user, secondary school student, employee of a company, or out of personal interest?
Then you may have the following questions: How do I use the catalog of the University of Stuttgart library system? Where are the books and journals I need located? How do I borrow books? How do I use the services of the University Library on the Internet? You will find answers to these and many more questions at this event.
Duration approx. 60 minutes.
This course is offered as a web seminar.
You will receive an invitation to the online course a few days before the event date.
This event is aimed at everyone interested who has no previous knowledge of Zotero.
In this course, you will learn about the most important features of the reference management system Zotero: You will learn how to collect and organize references and easily incorporate them into your text.
The free open-source tool can be used on Windows, macOS or Linux.
Course content:
Duration: approx. 90 minutes.
Please install Zotero in advance: https://www.zotero.org/download/
You will be needing Zotero, a browser connector, and the Word/LibreOffice plugin.
The course is offered as a web seminar.
You will receive the invitation to the online course a few days before the event date.
This online seminar is part of a virtual event series of the TU9 Libraries.
Whether it's well-curated workflows, well-crafted software or well-organized research data – these winning ways of working are not just worthwhile, but vital for ensuring your research is traceable, trustworthy and truly reproducible.
Content:
Various services and facilities at the University of Stuttgart support the secure storage, traceable documentation and findable and reusable publication of data and software.
After a short general introduction to research data management and a presentation of the services at the University of Stuttgart, we will create data sets in the DaRUS data repository in a hands-on session and lay the foundations for our own data management plan.
Please bring your own laptop.
Provider: Competence Center for Research Data (FoKUS)
Speaker: Dr. Dorothea Iglezakis
Target group: PostDocs / Doctoral Candidates…
Date / Seminar times /Venue:
Contact: Dr. Dorothea Iglezakis
All further courses will be held in German only.
Course content:
- Campus license
- Structure and key features
- Searching for and importing literature
- Evaluating PDFs
- Capturing citations
- Task management
- Organizing knowledge using categories and tags
- Inserting literature references into texts
- Creating bibliographies
Target audience: Students
Lecturer: Bianca Lackmann (Information Literacy Department)
Date: 02.06.2026 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Tool used: Big Blue Button
Registration until 01.06.2026 here.
Further information here.
Citavi is a multi-purpose reference management software tool which provides users with a range of features for arranging and recording references. The University Library provides the RWTH Aachen University community (students and staff) with free access to Citavi for Windows, Citavi Web and Citavi for DBServer through a university site license. This course offers you an introduction to using Citavi for Windows. You will get an overview of the following functions:
Installation of Citavi for Windows and accessing the campus license
Creating a project
Adding references
Organizing knowledge items
Citavi Word add-in
You know the basic functions of the reference management program. You can import and organize literature and prepare it for use in publications.
Target audience: Students, doctoral candidates
Dates:
| 08.12.2026 | 10 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. |
| 24.02.2027 | 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
The link to access the Zoom-Meeting will be send to you via email about 1 to 3 days before the event.
Reference management programs are helpful tools for managing references as well as for the automatic creation of bibliographies. With EndNote you can save and manage references and process them in text processing programs (Word). EndNote also supports direct searches in bibliographic databases and offers citation and format templates for publications in scientific journals. Training contents in detail:
Installing and licensing EndNote
Creating libraries
Recording titles
EndNote Word-Addin
Target audience: Students, Researchers
Participation requirements: internet connection; the online course will be held via Zoom
Dates:
| 16.12.2026 | 2 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. |
| 15.02.2027 | 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. |
Details on requirements and registration options here.
Data is an essential component of research and therefore invaluable for researchers. Systematic research data management provides support for daily research activities in fulfilling good scientific practice (GSP) and thus enables the traceability, reproducibility, and reusability of scientific research. An effective approach to systematically organize the handling of your research data is the creation of a data management plan (DMP).
This presentation will provide you with the knowledge and tools you need to create a comprehensive and effective data management plan in line with Horizon Europe requirements for a DMP deliverable. This event is ideal for researchers and project managers with recently funded Horizon Europe projects.
Horizon Europe emphasizes Open Science and makes research data management (RDM) and data management planning (DMP) important components of research projects. This is reflected in the requirement to submit a DMP deliverable 6 months after the beginning of the funded project.
The presentation will take you step-by-step through the process of creating a DMP using the FAIR principles - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. You will explore what a DMP includes, from summarizing data to making it FAIR, both for your project collaborators and the broader scientific community. The presentation will cover secure data storage and access management, metadata and documentation, handling sensitive data, choosing repositories for publication, and defining roles and resources for effective data management.
Target audience: Researchers
Lecturer: Service Center Research Data, SLUB Dresden
Date: 19.05.2026 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Previous Knowledge: none required
Tool: Zoom
Registration and further information here
Handling research data becomes increasingly complex not only for data scientists. Nowadays basically all researchers create, organise, analyse, save, archive, and perform all the other necessary steps to work with research data and software.
And many are unsure what is required of them - not only from a policy and good scientific practice standpoint, but also in terms of efficiency and efficacy.
Does this sound like you? Then join us for this introduction on research data management (RDM).
Here, you will learn the basic RDM concepts followed by ideas how these concepts can be implemented in your day-to-day work. We will introduce you to the central research data management services that are available to you at TU Darmstadt.
For example, you will learn
Target audience: Researchers
Date: 12.05.2026 9:50 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Interested? Registration is just a few clicks away.
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.
Data is an essential component of research and therefore invaluable for researchers. Whether small samples or "Big Data" - the systematic and transparent handling of research data is a central element of good scientific practice. Systematic research data management provides support for daily research activities in fulfilling good scientific practice (GSP) and thus enables the traceability, reproducibility, and reusability of scientific research. It can also facilitate collaboration within groups.
The presentation is aimed at those responsible for RDM as well as research group leaders.
This presentation offers solutions to the following questions about RDM:
Target audience: Researchers
Lecturer: Service Center Research Data, SLUB Dresden
Date: 16.07.2026 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Previous Knowledge: none required
Tool: Zoom
Registration and further information here
Research assessment is common in every aspect of scientific research, from publishing the primary results as a PhD to applying for grants and funding or entering the tenure track towards professorship. But how this assessment is conducted is widely debated. Traditional bibliometric methods and indicators have limited reliability, and are open for manipulation, or have been misused in numerous instances.
As an part of the open science movement, the reformation of research assessment and relevance of responsible metrics has become more important. Starting with the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) in 2015, followed by the Leiden Manifesto, and more recently the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) in 2022, several key initiatives have emerged.
In this talk we provide an overview of the most prominent initiatives, how KIT is involved so far, and what this actually entails for scientists.
Target audience: Scientific staff, Researchers
Lecturer: Juliane Mörsel (KIT)
Date: 22.09.2026 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Tool used: Zoom
Link to the original application here.
Target audience: Researchers
Lecturers: Mamta Dwivedi (KIT-Bibliothek)
Date: 25.06.2026 10 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Tool used: Zoom
Registration here.
In this course, we will discuss how to distinguish reputable providers from dubious ones when publishing or presenting your research. We will outline the deceptive practices of predatory publishers and explain how to avoid potential harm. Benefit from our insights to ensure the success of your publication.
Topics:
Date: 18.06.2026 9:30 a.m.– 12:00 a.m.
Tool used: Zoom
