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Data Carpentry Workshop Weekend (4/23-24)

Data Carpentry is coming to OSU for a two-day workshop on April 23 and 24. Do you have data that you want to analyze? This hands-on workshop teaches basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data. Check out the ...

Grad student workshops offered for Mendeley (4/19) and EndNote (4/19)

Check out Mendeley on April 19, another web-based, social tool for capturing, managing, and citing your research sources. You can also explore EndNote (Basic and Intermediate/Advanced) on April 19 for capturing, managing and citing your research...

New exhibit on the fifth floor: “Heartwood: Inquiry and Engagement with Pacific Northwest Forests”

People of the Pacific Northwest have deep and complicated connections with forests. The OSU Libraries and Press Special Collections and Archives Research Center explores those connections in its latest exhibit called “Heartwood: Inquiry and...

Grad student workshops offered for Grad Publishing Tips (4/13), Zotero (4/14) and SPSS Basics (4/14)

Check out Graduate Publishing Tips for graduate students who want to get started on publishing their scholarship (4/13). Whip your citations into shape with Zotero (4/14), an excellent online tool for capturing, managing and citing...

Workshops offered on Data Wrangling for Research (4/11) and Open Research – Tools/Best Practices (4/12)

Meet OpenRefine – a tool for exploring, cleaning, and transforming data – and other strategies for cleaning data in the Data Wrangling for Research workshop on April 11. Then learn about Open Science Framework, a tool for facilitating scholarly...

OSU’s Jane Lubchenco receives the Linus Pauling Legacy Award

Dr. Jane Lubchenco has been announced as the 2016 winner of the Linus Pauling Legacy Award sponsored by the Oregon State University Libraries and Press. Dr. Lubchenco holds the title of university distinguished professor and advisor in Marine...

Panel discussion on open access publishing (3/31)

Join us for a panel discussion entitled “What is Open Access? Advance Your Career by Unlocking Your Work” from 4:00–5:30 p.m. on March 31. The event will be in the Memorial Union’s Pan-African Sankofa Room (room 213).    Panelists...

Open forums for librarian candidates

OSU Libraries and Press is hosting two candidates for the position of Associate University Librarian for Research and Scholarly Communication. The person in this position will provide strategic vision and leadership for library engagement...

Grad student workshops: Intro to Data Management (4/5), Spreadsheet Best Practices (4/6), Qualtrics (4/7)

Grad students, get a jump-start on learning to manage the data associated with your research projects with Intro to Data Management on April 5. Then take your Excel skills to the next level with Spreadsheet Best Practices on April 6. If you’ve...

Read a good book during the break — and you could win more books

Read a book or two during spring break, and you could win a $100 gift certificate for more books with the Beavers Read Spring Break Challenge.  Here’s how the challenge goes: 1. Read a book, any book, just because you want to read it....

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