West Flex Room - 2740

East Flex Room - 2742

9:00 am

Fundamentals for Managing Your Data

Adam Griggs, Maggie Marchant, Paul Robbins

This session will teach good principles of data management including:

• Data management lifecycle
• File naming conventions
• Readme files and data documentation
• Data formats and storage

Beyond the Impact Factor: Understanding and Using Research Metrics

Betsy Hopkins

Learn paradigms and practical tools to provide evidence of the prestige, impact, and rigor of your scholarly work. The session will cover:

1. What metrics are and what they mean
2. What metrics are available, including for:
   1. Authors
   2. Articles
   3. Journals
   4. Books
3. What sources provide metrics and/or tools to calculate them
4. What you need to communicate metrics

10:00 am

Common Tools for Data Analysis and Visualization

Adam Griggs, Maggie Marchant, Paul Robbins

This session will highlight software for analyzing and visualizing data including R, SAS, Python, SPSS, Stata, Excel, Tableau Public, Gale Scholar Lab, and ArcGIS.  Come to learn about features and functions of each software, use-case scenarios, and training resources.

Sharing Your Research on BYU’s Institutional Repository

Ellen Amatangelo

This session will introduce ScholarsArchive, BYU's Institutional Repository.

• Learn how to create a free account to add your article, project, poster, or dataset to ScholarsArchive and obtain a shareable link for your work.
• Find out how uploading your research to the repository will increase its discoverability.
• Explore scholarly journals, collections, and conferences hosted in the repository.
• Learn about statistics provided to authors concerning readership of their works around the world.

Please bring your laptop to create an account.

11:00 am

Finding Open and More Affordable Course Content

Michael Whitchurch

Have you thought that your students pay too much for course content? Have you wanted to maintain high quality instruction but help the students out? There are resources for course content that can be free or more affordable. Come to this workshop to learn about the following:

• Library Course Reserve
• Interlibrary Loan
• Using Library Databases
• Finding Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Creative Commons (CC) Licenses
• Open Access Journals

Making Your Published Work More Discoverable Online

David Pixton

Getting published is one thing, maximizing the impact of your work is another.  In this workshop we will share:

• How scholarship is retrieved by search engines and what you can do to increase the chances that others will find your work
• What rights you have as an author and how asserting those rights can affect the impact of your work in your field
• Open access publishing and its impact on readership
• Tips for using social media and other digital resources to let others know about your work

12:00 pm

Lunch