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2025 Winter Graduate Booster 3: Humanities and Social Sciences Research Impact Workshop

Posted on Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 at 8:40am by Jonny Wood
Humanities and Social Sciences Research Impact Workshop

2025 Winter Graduate Booster 3: Humanities and Social Sciences Research Impact Workshop

Step up your research. Introductory research sessions featuring UNB professors, librarians, & library professionals.

With Erin Spinney, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Politics
And Julie Morris, Collections Analysis and Bibliometrics Librarian

This 90-minute workshop will support Humanities and Social Science (HSS) researchers looking to use bibliometrics and research impact metrics to strengthen storytelling about their research records, such as for the purposes of supporting assessment packages, grant applications, and other scholarly profiles. Focus will be paid to incorporating research metrics in a way that goes beyond using traditional research impact metrics, and that showcases the research story in a discipline-appropriate way.

Pack your laptop and CV because there will be a hands-on activity that allows participants to engage with their own research impact story.

Thursday March 13th 2025, 14:00–15:30

Keith and Elizabeth Chapman Grand Reading Room (Room 205), Hans W. Klohn Commons (UNBSJ) and online.
Please email mbragdon@unb.ca to register and receive the Teams meeting link if attending virtually.

Drop-ins are also welcome.

Have you tried Scopus AI?

Posted on Friday, February 21st, 2025 at 3:41pm by Jonny Wood
Have you tried Scopus AI?

Have you tried Scopus AI?

Scopus AI is an AI-driven research tool that uses the Scopus peer-reviewed research repository to help users understand and navigate unfamiliar academic content. Scopus AI generates summaries based on Scopus abstracts with references to help decipher complex content, facilitate deeper exploration, and provide academic insights.

  • It’s built on the corpus of Scopus abstracts
  • It lets you learn AI query formation
  • It produces concise and expanded summaries of your topic with links to Scopus entries
  • It draws concept maps of your topic
  • It identifies foundational papers that are key to your topic
  • It identifies topic experts.

Visit https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus/ScopusAI or look for the link on the Scopus database.

2025 Winter Graduate Booster 2

Posted on Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 at 11:20am by Jonny Wood
Winter Graduate Booster 2 - recording available

2025 Winter Graduate Booster 2: Tips and tricks for conference poster design and accompanying data visualizations

Step up your research. Introductory research sessions featuring UNB professors, librarians, & library professionals.

Learn our tips and tricks for conference and academic poster design and accompanying data visualizations.

  • Mario Tiozzo, Data Visualization Librarian
  • Jonny Wood, UNB Libraries Graphic Designer

This event took place February 19th, 3-4pm in person in the Harriet Irving Library Research Commons Innovation Hub (316) and online.

Links & Resources

Poster Design:

Useful links:

Data Visualization:

Love Data Week 2025: Whose Data is it Anyway?

Posted on Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 at 10:14am by Jonny Wood
Love Data Week 2025: Whose Data is it Anyway?

UNB Libraries is celebrating Love Data Week 2025 with two events highlighting data-focused research and resources at UNB!

These sessions will be of particular interest to graduate students and early career researchers, but all are welcome, and registration is not required.

50 Ways to Love your Data

Tuesday Feb 11, 2025. 14:00 – 15:00
Innovation Hub, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library

Join Dr. Barry Blight (Chemistry), Dr. Donna Curtis Maillet (NB Institute for Research Data and Training) and Dr. Willis Monroe (Historical Studies), along with moderator Siobhan Hanratty (UNB Libraries) for a panel discussion of issues in research data management across disciplines. We'll consider data management planning, working with private or sensitive data, sharing data, using or re-using existing data, and more.

From Planning to Preservation: Good RDM Practice and Resources

Thursday Feb 13, 2025. 14:00 – 15:00
Event Space, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library

If you're beginning a new research project or planning your thesis or dissertation, the best time to start thinking about research data management (RDM) is now!

Siobhan Hanratty and James MacKenzie (UNB Libraries) will lead a brief introduction to good RDM practice, including resources and approaches to planning, organizing, describing, storing, and sharing your research data. These fundamentals will help you to make informed decisions on how to handle your research data during and after your research project.

Academic Publishing Workshop Series

Posted on Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 at 8:16am by Jonny Wood
Academic Publishing Workshop Series

UNB Libraries, in partnership with the School of Graduate Studies, is thrilled to introduce our Academic Publishing Workshop Series, a program running for the duration of February featuring panel conversations with UNB researchers and workshops from library experts covering a range of topics, including: metrics, academic integrity, open access, research data management, scholar profiles, knowledge mobilization, and a number of other topics.

We will answer questions such as:

  • How does publishing work?
  • How are academic journals run?
  • What is open access?
  • What’s peer review all about?
  • Why should I care about research data management?
  • What counts as research data?
  • Which metrics are useful?

Themes

Week 1: Research Data Management

Week 2: Academic Integrity

Week 3: Knowledge Mobilization, Publishing, and Research Dissemination

Where

  • UNB Libraries Research Commons
  • UNBSJ Hans W. Klohn Commons
  • Online

When

Week 1
Panel 1 - Research Data Management

Feb 11th, 2pm–3:30pm
Innovation Hub, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library, Fredericton

Session 1 - Research Data Management

Feb 13th, 2pm–3:30pm
Event Space, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library, Fredericton

Week 2
Panel 2 - Academic Integrity

Feb 18th, 1pm–2:30pm
Event Space, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library, Fredericton

Session 2 - Academic Integrity

Feb 20th, 2pm–3:30pm
Innovation Hub, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library, Fredericton

Week 3
Session 3 - Knowledge Mobilization and Diverse Methods of Research Dissemination

Feb 26th, 2pm–3pm
HWK 126, Hans W. Klohn Library, Saint John

Panel 3 - Knowledge Mobilization and Diverse Methods of Research Dissemination

Feb 27th, 2pm–3pm
Conference Room, Hans W. Klohn Library, Saint John

Session 4 - Academic Publishing

Feb 28th, 2pm–3pm
Active Learning Lab, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library, Fredericton

Audience

  • Graduate students
  • Early-career researchers
  • Anyone interested in learning more about research dissemination.
Full program details available here

Images of Research 2025

Posted on Tuesday, February 04th, 2025 at 1:52pm by Jonny Wood
Images of Research 2025

Struggling to explain what you are doing in grad school? What if you could show people instead?

Visual representations of research done in the field, in labs, in clinics, and in archives offer a window into the work of university researchers. We use data visualization of all kinds to quickly convey the essence of complex ideas and we do it across disciplines in presentations, posters, professional websites, or even in pitches to donors. Images help us reach out and connect to those inside and outside the university community.

The School of Graduate Studies and the Harriet Irving Library Research Commons are launching the third annual Images of Research challenge

Students are invited to enter a single still image: perhaps a snapshot, a collage, or an art piece.  It could be an image in its original form or modified in creative ways. Add a clever title and a thoughtful 200-word description. Show us what graduate research at UNB looks like!

There will be six winners chosen.

The first-place winners will receive $500, 2nd place $300, and 3rd place $200.
There will also be two honourable mentions and an audience's choice award - each receiving $150.

Challenge opened February 3rd and closed February 28th.
Winners will be posted.