Scholarly Communication Online Workshops

In this webinar you will learn about

• BioRxiv and MedRxiv
• Their place in scholarly literature and research

This webinar will be held online on February 17th at 2pm.

In this webinar you will learn:

• What is a predatory publisher
• How to spot predatory publishers
• Where to find good publishers

This webinar will be held online at February 24th at 2pm.

In this webinar you will learn:

• How so much research pivoted to COVID-19 in 2020
• How to find the new COVID-related content for your discipline
• About the different options for finding COVID-related data to inform your own research

This webinar will be held online on March 3rd at 2pm.

In this webinar you will learn

• Facts about open access
• The benefits of publishing Open Access

This webinar will be online on March 10th at 2 pm.

In this webinar you will learn:

• About demonstrated benefits of reducing course material costs
• What OER is and how to find it
• What affordable course materials are they and how to find them

This webinar will be held online on March 24th at 2pm.

In this webinar you will learn:

• What it's possible to measure
• Why quality matters
• What bibliometric measures of 'quality' are available

This webinar will be held online on March 31st at 2pm.

In this webinar you will learn:

• Which social network profiles can help your academic reputation
• About different research ID systems, and which might be appropriate for you
• About ScholarWorks@UTEP/Bepress, institutional tools which can help spread your work to the masses and expose your academic reputation

This webinar will be held online on April 7th at 2pm.

In this webinar, you will learn

• More about the common author contract distributed by publishers
• What you can + can’t do w/ your work after signing an author contract
• How to keep more of your rights to your work

This webinar will be held online on April 14th at 2pm.

In this webinar you will learn:

• Why it matters where you publish
• Methods for choosing where to publish
• About bibliometric measures of journal quality and how to find and understand them

This webinar will be held online on April 21st at 2 pm.