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This week’s Colloquium will cover the various research tools available to students that help streamline everything from your approach to research, literature review, collaborative tools, writing and publication.

We’ll start the session with a show & tell of the various tools available, such as:

• Reference managers:
  • Zotero (Quick start guide: https://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide)
  • Mendeley (Getting started: https://www.mendeley.com/guides/videos)
• Coding & note-taking (qualitative mainly, also quantitative)
  • NVivo ( Video tutorial library:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNjHMRgHS4Fcx3NfpKsaqXuGdcxI9y-Qa)

• Collaboration tools:
  • File sharing, which includes:
    • Sfuvault (https://www.sfu.ca/itservices/collaboration/sfu-vault.html)
    • SIAT OwnCloud (cloud-based:  https://research.iat.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Cloud-based_File_Storage)
    • Github (GitHub guides: https://guides.github.com/, also Research Commons has an interactive workshop)

• Writing (solo or collaborative)
  • MS word (Real-time co-authoring: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Collaborate-on-Word-documents-with-real-time-co-authoring-7dd3040c-3f30-4fdd-bab0-8586492a1f1d )
  • Latex
  • Shared latex writing: Overleaf https://www.overleaf.com
  • Sharelatex (Beginner’s tutorial: https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/latex-guides/beginners-tutorial.html )

More info

SFU Library's Research Commons is an excellent resource for information, workshops, training and events.

http://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/branches-depts/rc

Discussion will follow show & tell

What do you use? What would you like to learn? Do you have any suggestions for your peers?