Join us for the Fall Into Research Library Workshops Series. As the leaves turn and the air gets crisp, it’s the perfect season to grow your research skills! Join us for a collection of engaging virtual workshops designed to help you harvest academic success. Whether you're an instructor, staff member, undergraduate or graduate student—just starting out or nearing the end of your academic journey—there’s something here for everyone. Each session will guide you through essential library resources, smart research strategies, and powerful tools to help you fall in love with the process of discovery.
Multidiscplinary workshops:
Discipline specific workshops:
All sessions will be offered virtually on the Zoom platform. Sessions vary from 30 to 50 minutes in length with time allotted for questions.
Join us for this 30-minute session that will introduce you to the library's primary search interface, OMNI. You will learn the basics of how to search for a variety of library resources (books, journal articles, film, government documents) in both print and electronic formats. We'll share tips about how to refine your results, identify a scholarly article, and locate the full-text of an article.
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If you’re looking for scholarly, peer reviewed articles, why not avoid the chaotic realm of Google and instead take a magical journey into a database that indexes only high-quality, scholarly journals? In this 50-minute workshop we'll focus on advanced searching in the Web of Science, a multidisciplinary database indexing over 20,000 scholarly journals.
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This 50-minute workshop will introduce you to how AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and Google Gemini can support your academic research by helping you brainstorm topics, generate keywords, and identify background information. It will cover the strengths and limitations of AI in the research process, including privacy concerns, accuracy issues, and citation practices. You'll also learn how to craft effective prompts and how to transition from AI-generated ideas to finding credible, scholarly sources using Trent Library’s databases and tools.
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This 50-minute session will introduce you to the benefits of using a citation manager - keeping your references organized and creating reference lists. It will include a demonstration of how to use the citation manager Zotero with various library resources and Google; as well as how to integrate it with Word for manuscript preparation.
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If you’re looking for scholarly, peer-reviewed psychology articles, why not avoid all the noise in a Google search and instead search in a database that focuses on psychology research like PsycINFO. This 40 minute session will focus on how to craft efficient searches in PsycINFO, use research specific filters to refine your results, and how to reach the full-text of an article.
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Join us for this 40-minute session that will focus on OMNI and history specific databases and full-text primary collections. You will learn search tips in OMNI to locate history specific resources, both primary and secondary. You will learn about history specific databases and full-text primary collections you have access to as Trent students and researchers.
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This 30-minute session will focus on ways to locate education specific print and electronic resources. You will learn how to locate items in the Curriculum Collection using Omni. You will learn what education specific databases are available for your research.
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In this 50-minute session, we’ll explore CINAHL, the go-to database for nursing and allied health literature. Learn how to build strong keyword searches, use CINAHL’s subject headings effectively, and combine terms with ANDs and ORs for better results. We’ll also cover wildcards, truncation, and quick troubleshooting tips, so you can find high-quality, peer-reviewed nursing research faster and with less frustration.
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The Maps, Data & Government Information Centre (MaDGIC) offers a variety of in-person and online workshops for research data management and data visualization including mapping with various tools (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS) and plotting and graphing in R.
See their schedule here.