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Library Research Skills sessions, organised throughout the year, are designed to help you manage the information you need for you research.


1 February 2023 14.00-15.30	Online news sources	In person	Badia, seminar room 4
8 February 2023 14.00-15.30	Using Westlaw for Legal Research	Hybrid	Badia, Emeroteca and Zoom
22 February 2023 14.00-15.30	Building up your literature review - tools for historians	Hybrid	Badia, Sala del Capitolo and Zoom
1 March 2023 14.00-14.45	Funding for Open Access publishing: EUI Transformative Agreements & APC fund	In person	Badia, seminar room 2
8 March 2023 14.00-15.30	Introduction to Git and GitHub: Keep track of changes in your Social Sciences and Humanities research	Hybrid	Badia, seminar room 3
29 March 2023 14.00-15.30	Zotero for beginners	Hybrid	Sala del Torrino and Zoom
12 April 2023 14.00-15.30	EU Documentation and Case Law	Hybrid	Sala degli Stemmi and Zoom
20 April 2023 14.00-15.30	How to avoid plagiarism : Tools, Tips and Turnitin	-	Sala del Consiglio, Villa Salviati
10 May 2023 14.00-15.30	Research Data Q&A	Online	Zoom
17 May 2023 14.00-15.30	Publishing your first book – what you need to know	Hybrid	Badia, seminar room 4

In addition to the Zotero sessions listed above, a series of practical drop-in sessions on Zotero will take place from October to December. There is no need for registration, just come by and get the help you need! All sessions are open to researchers, master students, fellows, and professors from all departments.

These sessions are organised and run by Dario Willi ([email protected]), Federica Signoriello ([email protected]) and Mary Greenshields ([email protected]). If you want to suggest additional topics to be discussed, just send us an email.

Participants are kindly requested to install the following software on their devices beforehand (link for download):

Zotero desktop app
Zotero browser extension (Firefox or Safari)
Microsoft Word plug-in
Voluntary: app on iPad and/or iPhone

Please also make sure that you have registered for a Zotero account with your EUI email, as this provides you with unlimited cloud storage and enables you to use Zotero’s syncing functions.

Session type		Topic	Date	Room / tutor
	Workshop: beginners	How to build, organise, manage, and search your literature collections	10 October, 15.00-16.00	Badia, Sala del Capitolo
	Nerd session	Secret weapons: create excerpts in Zotero / get clean PDFs / import annotated PDFs / use empty fields	17 October 15.00-16.00	Salviati Sala dei Levrieri
	Workshop: beginners	Footnotes and bibliography: how to use Zotero with Microsoft Word	24 October 15.00-16.00	Badia, Seminar Room 4
	Nerd session	Making use of Zotero extensions (Zotfile, Citation preview, PDF translator etc.)	2 November 15.00-16.00	Salviati, Sala dei Levrieri
	Workshop: advanced	One tool to rule them all: how to read & annotate PDFs / manage notes / create cross-referencing	7 November 15.00-16.00	Badia, Sala del Capitolo
	Nerd session	Managing archival sources in Zotero	14 November 15.00-16.00	Salviati Sala del Camino
	Workshop: advanced	Collaboration tools: group libraries & sharing collections	21 November 15.00-16.00	Badia, Seminar Room 4
	Nerd session (lawyers)	Managing case law and court decisions	12 December 15.00-16.00	Salviati, Sala dei Levrieri /

More training sessions are organised by the Academic Service.

Looking for tools to self-teaching? Try our YouTube channel and Sage Campus, offering access to courses such as See Numbers in Data, Plan Your Project, Gather Your Data Online, Introduction to Journal Publishing, How to Write a Journal Article.

Request a session

You can request new sessions on topics not covered by the current schedule. Send an email to Federica Signoriello.

Page last updated on 22 March 2023