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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. This week will also have SFU SIAT's Administrative Coordinator, Lisa DaSilva, speak about Expense Claims.

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

• Online surveys
  • https://www.sfu.ca/istld/faculty/resources.html 
  • Lists ISTLD Survey FAQ*(PDF)
  • SFU Websurvey and Survey Monkey: https://www.sfu.ca/itservices/publishing/surveys.html

• Software available for SFU students
  • https://www.sfu.ca/itservices/technical/software.html
  • Tableau: https://www.tableau.com/academic/students

• 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
    • Github Student Pack: https://education.github.com/pack
    • SFU Gitlab: https://gitlab1.its.sfu.ca/
  • 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

• Blogs: https://www.sfu.ca/tlc/technology/blogs.html

• Independent Learning resources
  • Lynda.com - Curated video tutorial library: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/find/other-materials/lynda

• Health & Wellbeing resources
  • Mental Health at SFU: https://www.sfu.ca/students/health/support/mental-health.html
  • http://sfu.ca/well-being
  • http://sfu.ca/mental-health
  • TA/TM Well-being Project: http://www.sfu.ca/healthycampuscommunity/projects/learning-environments/ta-tm-well-being.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

Research Commons Workshops: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/branches-depts/rc/services/workshops

Discussion will follow show & tell

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