Data visualizations tell stories and make arguments through data and charts, graphs, and maps.

ArcGIS Story Maps are a publicly accessible format for communicating the results of your research, presenting historical narratives, and crafting place-based stories. In this workshop, you will learn how to design a web-based map narrative with sample geographic data, text, and images to build an interactive multimedia story map. 

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This workshop will be Zoom Only

**The Zoom link will be provided immediately following registration at https://tulane.libcal.com/event/8792067**

According to the Consumer Price Index, from 2006-2016, the cost of college students' textbooks increased by 88% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2016). It is estimated that on average, full-time college students enrolled in a 4-year institution spent 1,240$ in 2019-2020 on textbooks (https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org). One way faculty and staff can address this equity issue is to assign open educational resources (OERs) instead of traditional costly textbooks in their classes.

You have your research idea, have already started thinking about data collections, and now it’s time to think about where to publish your findings. Choosing the correct journal can mean higher visibility and impact on your work but which Journal to select isn’t always an obvious choice. In this workshop, we will review some of the criteria to consider when selecting a Journal. We will also use tools/databases such as IncItes, Ulrich’s, and Directory of Open Access Journals to help gather information about the Journal’s main theme, frequency of publication, availability, and impact factor.

Have you ever received an email inviting you to publish in a scholarly journal? Have you been unsure of the quality of that journal – perhaps they are a new start-up, and not yet known, or perhaps the journal is produced by a predatory publisher looking to take advantage of authors Recently, it has become harder and harder to distinguish the trustworthy journals from predatory journals? Predatory publishers and journals may disseminate plagiarized materials, or material lacking in quality control and lacking peer review all while charging the author a fee.

Citation management tools such as Zotero, RefWorks, EndNote and Mendeley can help you to store the citations you find during your research. They all make it incredibly easy to format a reference/works cited list. Which is best for you? This workshop will provide a brief overview of each tool so you can be aware of your options before deciding what tool is best for you.

Citation management tools such as Zotero, RefWorks, EndNote and Mendeley can help you to store the citations you find during your research. They all make it incredibly easy to format a reference/works cited list. Which is best for you? This workshop will provide a brief overview of each tool so you can be aware of your options before deciding what tool is best for you.

Funding agencies, as well as Academic institutions, have placed an increased emphasis on productive interdisciplinary collaborations between research teams. However, identifying and reaching out to potential collaborators can be an intimidating task, especially outside of one's scholarly community. In this workshop, we will use tools such as Incites, Web of Science, Grants.gov, Research Gate, and more to identify potential collaborators for research. We will also review some skills and factors to take into consideration for successful Research collaborations.

According to the Consumer Price Index, from 2006-2016, the cost of college students' textbooks increased by 88% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2016). It is estimated that on average, full-time college students enrolled in a 4-year institution spent 1,240$ in 2019-2020 on textbooks (https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org). One way faculty and staff can address this equity issue is to assign open educational resources (OERs) instead of traditional costly textbooks in their classes.