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  • Faculty Learning Community: Sign up by September 10.

  • Tuesday, September 11, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
    Location: Room 665
    Friday, October 5, 12-1 p.m.
    Location: Room 665

    There is a mistaken belief that all classroom use of copyrighted content is protected as educational use. While some protections for educational uses are carved out in the copyright law, it is not a blanket permission. Additionally, there are copyright issues for the works that your students are creating in your classroom, especially when those works are publicly shared online. Join us for a quick primer on the basics of copyright law, and a deeper discussion about what you can — and cannot — do with copyright in the classroom.

  • Tuesday, September 18, 3-4 p.m.
    Location: Room 665
    Wednesday, October 24, 3-4 p.m.
    Location: Room 665

    Learn more about the HathiTrust Digital Library and its text-mining tools that allow researchers to analyze the content of the library’s 16 million volumes. This hands-on session will introduce participants to the HathiTrust+Bookworm tool for lexical trend discovery and the HathiTrust algorithms for text analysis.

  • Thursday, September 27, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
    Location: Room 665
    Tuesday, October 23, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
    Location: Room 665

    Creative Commons licenses easily let others know how they can reuse your copyrighted works. However, the various conditions, from Non-Commercial to Share-Alike, are not always well understood. Join us to learn more about how the Creative Commons licenses can maximize the impact and reach of your scholarship.

  • Thursday, October 25, 4-5 p.m.
    Location: Room 665

    Join the Digital Scholarship team for conversations about data, digital scholarship or anything of interest. You bring the discussion; we provide the drinks and bites!

  • Wednesday, November 14, 3:30-4:45 p.m.
    Location: Room 665

    Fair use is a powerful provision in the copyright law that gives us the right to use copyrighted works without permission of the owners under certain circumstances. Those circumstances are common in both teaching and scholarship, yet fair use remains an underused and misunderstood right. Learn about fair use, learn ways to help make fair use determinations, and get your fair use questions answered.

  • Thursday, October 18, 12-1 p.m.
    Location: Room 665
    Thursday, November 1, 4-5 p.m.
    Location: Room 667

    Research in its raw form is often messy. OpenRefine is a free tool that scholars can use to examine, clean and add structure to the information they gather. Learn about how this powerful tool can support your own research.  

  • Thursday, November 8, 12-1 p.m.
    Location: Room 665
    Thursday, November 15, 4-5 p.m.
    Location: Room 665

    Discover strategies for ensuring that your research will be accessible and usable in the long term. Tools discussed include WakeSpace, Dataverse and OSF.

  • This fall, ZSR will offer 14 weekday Zotero workshops geared to faculty. In addition, please encourage your students to attend one of six Zotero workshops on Sunday afternoons.