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2025 Workshop Series

Introduction to Zotero for Citation Management

Video Recording
The recording is 45 minutes long and contains a closed caption option.

Zotero, a free citation management tool that lets you easily organize and cite all the resources you use for your research. In this workshop, you will:

  • Set up your Zotero account
  • Learn how to get citations into Zotero
  • Create and organize personal and group libraries
  • Annotate PDFs you read
  • Add a bibliography and in-text citations in your Google Docs or Microsoft Word document.

Please note: To use Zotero, you will need a desktop or laptop computer, not a Chromebook or tablet, capable of downloading software. While having a desktop or laptop is not required during the workshop, it would help if you plan to get your account set up during this session.

Presented by: Sarah Barbrow, Engineering Librarian


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Introduction to Patents and Patent Searching

Video Recording
The recording is 45 minutes long and contains a closed caption option.

Curious about patents, what they are, and how to find them? Join us for a workshop where you will learn about:

  • Types of Intellectual Property: an overview of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets
  • Patent basics: an overview of the three types of patents
  • Patent searching: where and how to search for patents
  • Patent structure: an overview of how to read a patent document

Presented by: Sarah Barbrow & Luesoni Kuck, Engineering Librarians


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Last Updated: Apr 29, 2025 8:35 AM
Subjects: Engineering
Tags: workshops