For UNCG students, staff, faculty, instructors, and librarians. The Spring 2025 Research and Applications Webinar series will cover topics on library resources and research tools. Webinars are 30 minutes and are hosted in Teams. Use the Sign Up Form to register.
- January 23, 11 AM. “Open access funding support at UNCG: APC waivers, discounts, and more.” Presented by Anna Craft. In 2025, UNCG authors have more opportunities than ever to publish and share their scholarship via open access at no cost and at reduced rates. Come to this session to learn more about how the University Libraries can help support your OA publishing – we’ll share information about all of our open access publishing funding opportunities, including financial awards, credits, and discounts that are available for authors at UNCG.
- February 5, 12 PM. “Sports and Research Resources at UNCG.” Presented by Sam Harlow. Interested in researching or using sports resources in your teaching or practice? This webinar, from UNCG Kinesiology librarian Sam Harlow, will cover the major sports exercise related databases and resources at UNCG: Sports Discus, Human Kinestics, PubMed, and the new resource SBRNet (data and analysis of all things in the sports industry).
- February 11, 12 PM. “Recognizing & avoiding predatory journals.” (1 hour session!) Presented by Anna Craft. Open access publishing provides many benefits, including increased readership and higher citation rates. But when evaluating and selecting open publication venues, authors must be aware of practices and characteristics that are associated with predatory publishing. UNCG librarians can help you find appropriate and reputable journals to publish in and can assist you in identifying journals to avoid. This session will provide an overview of predatory and unethical publishing practices, offer methods and resources to help evaluate the quality of online journals, and show examples of red flags related to journal practices and quality.
- March 18, 11 AM. “Search Tools for Citation Tracing/ Citation Tracking.” Lea Leininger. Are you interested in finding as many citations as possible back to a publication? Use Google Scholar. But there are additional search systems that can help you identify citations back to a publication. If you’re interested in learning about a few of these tools, please join Lea Leininger for discussion and health sciences librarian perspective on this topic.
