This guide lists various virtual workshops hosted by the Penn Dental Medicine Library in collaboration with librarians across campus. The PDM Library hosted the Scholarly Summer Workshop Series in July 2023 and Academic Autumn Workshop Series in November 2023. Thanks to a partnership with the Penn Vet Libraries, the series was revived during Fall 2024. Be on the lookout for future workshops.
Based on suggestions from previous workshop attendees and fellow Penn Libraries colleagues, I developed this list for potential future workshops:
Do you have further suggestions? If so, please let me know.
This virtual workshop introduces various resources listed on the Leon Levy Dental Medicine Library homepage with a deep dive into advanced searching strategies in PubMed. This recording was created on Wednesday July 19th at 12pm.
Learn how to set up your account on and use Covidence, a web-based screening software often used in Systematic Reviews. This recording was done on July 20th, 2023 at 12pm.
EndNote is a commonly-used citation management tool. This workshop provides an overview of how to set up your account and how to use EndNote to manage your citations. The recording took place on Wednesday July 26th, 2023 at 12pm.
Varvara Kountouzi, the Head of the Bollinger Digital Fabrication Lab at the Holman Biotech Commons, presented an in-person workshop on Thursday July 27th in the Dental Library Collaborative Classroom. Much of this content from Varvara's presentation can be found on this guide.
The recordings of these workshops will be made available via the Penn Dental Medicine Continuing Dental Education portal.
This workshop will help researchers become familiar with the data repository ecosystem in order for them to choose an appropriate data repository for deposit. After this workshop, learners will be able to determine if a repository has desirable characteristics, outline the types of repositories available, and navigate the process of searching for a repository. The main audience for this workshop is researchers who will be producing novel research data that needs to be shared in a data repository. The recording was done on Monday November 13, 2023 at 12pm.
I will co-present this workshop with Melanie Cedrone, the Health Sciences Collections Coordinator at the Holman Biotech Commons. This workshop will outline current scholarly communication practices, explore resources at Penn to review publishing options, and consider strategies for selecting journals in which to publish. You will learn the resources and tools that will aid in the selection and evaluation of journals, the influence of journal impact factors, and the implications of open-access publishing for your scientific work. Those interested in publishing in the health sciences will benefit most from this workshop. The recording was done on Wednesday November 29, 2023 at 12pm.
This hybrid workshop recording from Tuesday September 10th, 2024 teaches the importance of data management principles such as file naming, file organization, and metadata, as they apply to working in teams. In addition, it discusses onboarding and offboarding as key times for conducting data management. This information is suited for graduate students, staff, and faculty who are conducting research as part of a team. It is especially useful for any researchers who have a supervisory role on their team. The slides include links to materials and templates.
A citation management tool helps you keep track of articles and books as you find them, tag and annotate them, and easily create citations and bibliographies. In the recording below from Wednesday October 23rd, 2024, Gwen Fancy (the Assistant Director of the Penn Vet Libraries) and I compare the features of two commonly-used citation management tools, EndNote and Zotero.
Wednesday, December 18th from 12pm to 1pm
This virtual academic workshop is designed to help you recognize the risks of low-quality and predatory publishing and learn effective strategies to avoid them. You will learn:
The Leon Levy Dental Medicine Library invited Lauren Phegley to introduce attendees to ORCiD, a researcher identifier, and then create a bracelet to show off their ORCiD numbers on February 11th.
On Thursday February 14th, Lauren Phegley and I facilitated additional crafts - Metadata Valentine's Day cards and data management-related memes, at the Metadata Valentine's Day Party.
Audrey Farrell, the Poster Operator at the Holman Biotech Commons Bollinger Digital Fabrication Laboratory, presents tips on how to effectively condense and communicate their findings through visually compelling research posters.
