Join us for a webinar on Tuesday, November 19 from 12-1pm on Zoom!

Where to Publish: Finding and Evaluating Journals

You’ve written your manuscript, now what? Join the librarians to explore tools available to identify target journals and understand criteria for journal selection. This webinar will also cover strategies to identify legitimate versus predatory open access publishers and other publication venues such as preprint servers and institutional repositories. 

Join us on Tuesday, October 8th, 2024 12-1pm on zoom for:

Perfecting your NIH or NSF Biosketch: a SciENcv Workshop

Finding Data: A Workshop

When: Wednesday, January 3, 2024 12-1pm on Zoom

Register at: https://bit.ly/findingdata2024

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 12-1pm

On October 18th, the Research & Scholarly Communications Services Department held their annual retreat. The morning was dedicated to a service project, where we had the opportunity to volunteer at the Loaves & Fishes food pantry in Devens, MA. Tess and Leah helped prepare grocery bag bundles containing the pantry basics and shelf stable components of each food pick up, while Lisa, Kris, and Robert helped sort and organize incoming donations from individuals, local food drives, and partnering supermarkets.

Join us on Wednesday, September 27, 2023 from 12-12:30pm for a Library 101 session!

New to UMass Chan or can’t remember the last time you visited the library in person or online? Come find out about all the research resources and services the Lamar Soutter Library provides. Need to access articles from a different library? Need to know if you can post a copy of your article on your personal website? Need to share your data to fulfill funding requirements? There’s a librarian for that!

Join us on Wednesday June 28th, 2023 from 12:00-1:00pm on zoom for "Citation Manager Workshop: Zotero and Endnote" 

Want to know the secret to decrease manuscript writing stress by 500%? Use a citation manager! Join Tess Grynoch and Leah Honor, the Research Data & Scholarly Communications Librarians to learn more about using two different citations managers, Zotero and Endnote, and how they can save on time and annoyance. 

In celebration of Love Data Week 2023 please join the Research Data & Scholarly Communications Librarians from February 13-17th for a week long ‘Caption the Chart’ whiteboard activity and a webinar:

Join us for a webinar reviewing the new NIH DMS Policy!

A more extensive Data Management and Sharing Plan will be required for all NIH grant applications that produce scientific data starting January 25, 2023. Join the Research Data & Scholarly Communications librarians to learn more about this new policy, tools to create a Data Management and Sharing Plan, and other research data management resources available at UMass Chan.

When: Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 1-2pm

Where: Zoom

There are some new and exciting classes and workshops being offered by the LSL librarians.  These classes will explore different resources for searching and managing literature along with traditional and alternative metrics for measuring scholarship. Register for one or more now!

Sessions include:

April 30, 2020 – 10:00am