As a graduate student you often will be required to complete literature reviews for classes, research assistantships, prospectuses, and dissertations or theses. This webinar will focus on resources in the social sciences. You will learn the skills necessary to efficiently and effectively search for academic research, as well as where to search to find seminal literature in your discipline. Structure of literature reviews will also be discussed.
Introduction to the UGA Libraries provided app “Browzine,” a resource which helps students keep track of new issues of specific journals from their field.
In 2026, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding. In anticipation of this event, the University of Georgia Press has developed the Georgia Open History Library: From Colony to Statehood in the New Union. This resource provides free digital access to 45 out-of-print volumes focused on Georgia from the colony’s founding through the American Revolution.
Join us on Facebook Live to celebrate the launch of two new digital exhibits by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting: "Exploring Public Media in the Peabody Awards Collection" and "Native Narratives: The Representation of Native Americans in Public Broadcasting."
Join Mary Frances Early, as she discusses her new autobiography about her journey as the first Black graduate of UGA. In this livestream event, Early will participate in a book discussion with UGA Women’s Basketball Coach Joni Taylor. Registration information can be found here: https://gail.uga.edu/events/aa/mary-frances-early-book-launch-chat-with-coach-joni-taylor-2021.
The UGA Libraries are here to help you meet your research and teaching goals. Join us for an online session to learn about faculty services, our print and digital collections, how to request items for purchase, advanced technology spaces, and citation management tools to improve your productivity. We will also discuss ways to support your students through research skills instruction, archives-based learning, and affordable learning resources.
The UGA Libraries are here to help you meet your research and teaching goals. Join us for an online session to learn about faculty services, our print and digital collections, how to request items for purchase, advanced technology spaces, and citation management tools to improve your productivity. We will also discuss ways to support your students through research skills instruction, archives-based learning, and affordable learning resources.
There is a sea of federal government information out there: research reports, legislation, regulations, data sets, and so much more! The UGA Libraries has access to databases which make finding this information easier. The webinar will focus on searching for government information from Congress (laws, bills, reports, hearings, etc.), as well as Regulatory information from the Executive Branch.
This session will go over common components of a literature review in the sciences, its main purpose, and address some strategies to help you search for material.
This brief introduction will focus on features that are unique to PsycINFO, such as the Thesaurus, classification codes, and the methodology limit. There will be time for questions and answers. Submit questions ahead of time to the speaker at sriggs@uga.edu.
