Seminars for PhD Students - 2022/2023

Academic skills seminars for TUL PhD students or First aid for PhD students

The university library organizes a series of seminars for doctoral students focused on the development of academic skills. Regular seminars are held once a week in the winter semester on Tuesdays from 12.30 at Husova area in the classroom E223. The series includes 12 topics. The length of each seminar is 1-1.5 hours.

List of seminars:

4/10	Effective search in electronic information resources
11/10	Patent search
18/10	Information resources for TUL (databases of e-books, articles, etc.)
25/10	Standards at TUL
1/11	Citation principles
8/11	How to choose a journal to submit an article
15/11	How to recognize a predatory journal or predatory conference
22/11	Submitting an article to a journal - necessary steps (abstract, keywords, classification, corresponding author, sample, etc.)
29/11	Social networks for scientists + news tracking
6/12	Permanent identifiers of the scientist/author
13/12	Evaluation of science (impact factor, h-index, etc.)
20/12	Open science as a standard

Effective search in electronic information resources - regular seminars

We will focus on the preparation of the search, the construction of the search query, the application in selected databases, and work with the searched results. We will also mention the possibilities of professional search in the university library.

26.10.

Zotero in practice - regular seminars

We will install reference manager Zotero on our laptops and learn how to use it.

12.10., 9.11., 14.12.

Venue and time: Building H, University Library, Project Work Room, from 2.20 PM.
Seminars for all from TUL, in English. Anyone can come; registration is not required. :) Bring your laptop! Seminars last about 1-1,5 hours.

Contact person: Marta Zizienová, marta.zizienova@tul.cz