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Archival Adventures Online

It's time for an adventure! Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections and...  More
Date:
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Advanced     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni     Postdoc  
Categories:
  Event > Livestream  

Self-Paced Scholarly Identity Challenge Course Online

PLEASE NOTE: This is a self-paced, asynchronous course offered through the Professional Development Network (PDN). Please register for the course and complete the modules on your own through this...  More
Date:
Thursday, January 22, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
All Day Event
Location:
Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event  

Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour In-Person

Join us for the weekly Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour in the Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126) on the 1st floor of Newman Library. Bring your lunch or afternoon coffee and join us in...  More
Date:
Thursday, January 22, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126), Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni  
Categories:
  Event > Data Science  

Finding Resources for Literature Reviews in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Online

You’ve been assigned to write a literature review in the social sciences...but how do you get started? What kinds of literature reviews are there? Where should you search? How do you know what search...  More
Date:
Monday, January 26, 2026
Time:
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff  
Categories:
  Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 41 seats left

Tips & Tricks for Literature Reviews in Engineering Online

You need to write a literature review for your research or project... but how do you get started? What type of review do you need? What about AI tools to save time? We will go through the answers to...  More
Date:
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Time:
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff  
Categories:
  Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 45 seats left

Archival Adventures Online

It's time for an adventure! Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections and...  More
Date:
Wednesday, January 28, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Advanced     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni     Postdoc  
Categories:
  Event > Livestream  

Self-Paced Scholarly Identity Challenge Course Online

PLEASE NOTE: This is a self-paced, asynchronous course offered through the Professional Development Network (PDN). Please register for the course and complete the modules on your own through this...  More
Date:
Thursday, January 29, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
All Day Event
Location:
Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event  

Qualitative Data Analysis Foundations with Taguette Online

This lesson familiarizes learners with the application of open science principles to qualitative research, with a focus on documents or transcribed text in a variety of data formats. Learners will...  More
Date:
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Time:
9:00am - 12:00pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni     Researchers  
Categories:
  Workshop     Workshop > Data Science     Workshop > Open Education  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 21 seats left

Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour In-Person

Join us for the weekly Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour in the Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126) on the 1st floor of Newman Library. Bring your lunch or afternoon coffee and join us in...  More
Date:
Thursday, January 29, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126), Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni  
Categories:
  Event > Data Science  

Center for Digital Research & Scholarship Distinguished Lecture Series Online

A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving A PRESENTATION BY Dr. Michael L. Nelson Online Event via Zoom Abstract: Link rot and content drift have always been a part of the web experience: as we share...  More
Date:
Friday, January 30, 2026
Time:
10:00am - 11:00am
Audience:
  Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event > Center for Digital Research and Scholarship     Event > Livestream  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 90 seats left

Open Qualitative Data Analysis with QualCoder Online

Learn to use QualCoder, a free and open-source qualitative coding and data analysis tool. This workshop will provide introductory training in the principles of deductive and inductive qualitative...  More
Date:
Monday, February 2, 2026
Time:
12:00pm - 3:00pm
Location:
Online
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Workshop     Workshop > Data Science  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 29 seats left

Getting Started with Zotero Online

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use citation manager that can help researchers save time and frustration. In this interactive workshop, you will learn the basics of Zotero, including adding references to...  More
Date:
Monday, February 2, 2026
Time:
3:30pm - 4:45pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff  
Categories:
  Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 41 seats left

What You Need to Know: Academic Publishing & Sharing your Work Online

As an early-career academic, graduate students have many expectations and pressures, such as publishing and developing a professional presence in academia. In this workshop, participants will discover...  More
Date:
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Time:
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff  
Categories:
  Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 44 seats left

Introduction to Research Data Management Online

You're about to collect or already have data for your research project...now what? How do you manage it? What do you name the files? How do you share it? Learn the answers to all of these questions...  More
Date:
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Time:
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff  
Categories:
  Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 40 seats left

Archival Adventures Online

It's time for an adventure! Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections and...  More
Date:
Wednesday, February 4, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Advanced     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni     Postdoc  
Categories:
  Event > Livestream  

Self-Paced Scholarly Identity Challenge Course Online

PLEASE NOTE: This is a self-paced, asynchronous course offered through the Professional Development Network (PDN). Please register for the course and complete the modules on your own through this...  More
Date:
Thursday, February 5, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
All Day Event
Location:
Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event  

Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour In-Person

Join us for the weekly Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour in the Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126) on the 1st floor of Newman Library. Bring your lunch or afternoon coffee and join us in...  More
Date:
Thursday, February 5, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126), Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni  
Categories:
  Event > Data Science  

Mixed Methods Data Analysis with NVivo In-Person

Learn how to leverage NVivo for qualitative and mixed methods data analysis. This workshop will briefly cover project management and coding in NVivo before turning our focus to how queries can be used...  More
Date:
Monday, February 9, 2026
Time:
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Torgersen 3310, Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni     Researchers  
Categories:
  Workshop     Workshop > Data Science  
Registration Type:
In-Person Registration
Register! - 23 seats left

Literature Reviews and Database Searching for Animal & Life Sciences Online

You’ve been assigned to write a literature review...but how do you get started? What kinds of literature reviews are there? Where should you search? How do you know what search terms to use? Learn...  More
Date:
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Time:
3:30pm - 4:45pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff  
Categories:
  Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 49 seats left

Qualtrics 101: Collecting Survey Data Online

Learn everything you need to get started collecting survey data with Qualtrics: Create projects and surveys Implement a variety of question types Distribute surveys and track responses...  More
Date:
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Time:
10:00am - 12:00pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni     Researchers  
Categories:
  Workshop     Workshop > Data Science  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 30 seats left

Getting Started with Mendeley Online

Mendeley is a free, easy-to-use citation manager that can help researchers save time and frustration. In this interactive workshop, you will learn the basics of Mendeley, including adding references...  More
Date:
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Time:
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff  
Categories:
  Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 50 seats left

Archival Adventures Online

It's time for an adventure! Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections and...  More
Date:
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Advanced     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni     Postdoc  
Categories:
  Event > Livestream  

Self-Paced Scholarly Identity Challenge Course Online

PLEASE NOTE: This is a self-paced, asynchronous course offered through the Professional Development Network (PDN). Please register for the course and complete the modules on your own through this...  More
Date:
Thursday, February 12, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
All Day Event
Location:
Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event  

Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour In-Person

Join us for the weekly Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour in the Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126) on the 1st floor of Newman Library. Bring your lunch or afternoon coffee and join us in...  More
Date:
Thursday, February 12, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126), Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni  
Categories:
  Event > Data Science  

How to take advantage of Virginia Tech's open access policy Online

Since March 2021, all Virginia Tech researchers can provide immediate open access to the accepted version of scholarly articles through the university’s repository, VTechWorks, regardless of their...  More
Date:
Friday, February 13, 2026
Time:
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Audience:
  Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event  

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