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Meet subject specialist librarians from various STEM disciplines, learn about Library research tools and resources and learn how the Library can support you throughout your journey at UCLA! Whether it's a question about Library locations, research assistance, student employment, Library events or anything else on your mind, we are here to answer your questions and help you navigate the upcoming year!

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Talk with staff and students and learn how the Library can support you throughout your journey at UCLA! Whether it's a question about Library locations, research assistance, student employment, Library events or anything else on your mind, we are here to answer your questions and help you navigate the upcoming year!

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Are you experienced with open source software or hardware, or just curious about open source? In partnership with UC’s new Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network, the UCLA OSPO is hosting a casual, in-person meetup on September 30. We'll provide a space where experienced and aspiring open source contributors can learn from one another through informal discussions and talks from guest speakers. This is a lunch-and-learn event, so bring your lunch and we’ll bring the cookies!

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Talk with staff and students and learn how the Library can support you throughout your journey at UCLA! Whether it's a question about research assistance, student employment, Library events or anything else on your mind, we are here to answer your questions and help you navigate the upcoming year!

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Meet subject specialist librarians from various STEM disciplines, learn about Library research tools and resources and learn how the Library can support you throughout your journey at UCLA! Whether it's a question about Library locations, research assistance, student employment, Library events or anything else on your mind, we are here to answer your questions and help you navigate the upcoming year!

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PubMed is your first stop for finding information in the health sciences. This workshop will introduce the basics of PubMed and how to turn your idea into search results. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop. Instructor: Jason Burton, Director, Sciences User Engagement

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Presented by the UCLA Library and the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences Speaker: Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute and Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor, Northeastern University Epidemics are prototypical complex systems, driven by invisible pathogens spreading through interconnected networks of humans, transportation infrastructures and environments. Today, the convergence of computational power, AI and data-rich modeling is transforming how we understand and respond to outbreaks. From early situational awareness to scenario exploration and real-time forecasting, we are entering an era where we can finally turn complexity into foresight — and even harness it to stay one step ahead of emerging pathogens.

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Looking to shorten the time you spend searching for scientific literature? Give Web of Science a try! This introductory workshop will get you started searching in Web of Science, a powerful research database focused on scientific literature ranging a wide variety of disciplines. Learn how to conduct effective searches, refine your results and find even more relevant articles by exploring Web of Science’s Citation Network. Learn about the advantages to creating a Web of Science account and saving search results to helpful lists that can be accessed later. This workshop is perfect for first time users or for experienced users looking for a refresher. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop. Instructor: Hannah Sutherland, Open Science and Collections Librarian

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This workshop will offer an overview on the entire systematic review process — from hypothesis to publication, and why it takes so long to conduct one! Attendees will leave with concrete steps to take to plan a systematic review, as well as an understanding of systematic review methodology and how it differs from other types of review articles. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop. Instructor: Robert Johnson, Clinical and Research Support Librarian

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Are you interested in writing a review article? Have you been assigned a literature review on a topic, but aren’t sure where to start? This workshop will walk you through the process of planning and organizing a literature review. We will cover research questions, database selection, search strategy, synthesis and more! This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop. Instructor: Molly Hemphill, Medical Education Librarian

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This workshop will introduce the basics of Overleaf, from creating an account to navigating the functionality and getting started with editing. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop. Instructors: Jason Burton, Director, Sciences User Engagement Shelby Hallman, Physical Science and Engineering Librarian

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Presented by the UCLA Library and the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences Speaker: Colin Allen, Distinguished Professor in the department of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara Drawing on interviews and other work that is being done for a book about the history and philosophy of "mathematical psychology,” Colin Allen will characterize mathematical psychologists as a self-identified community within psychology, united by their approach to mathematical modeling, mentoring lineages and institutional structures such as a journal, and societies on three continents organizing conferences and summer schools. Mathematical psychologists have recently been vocal about the need for psychology to move in a more mathematical direction, inspired partly by the so-called “replication crisis” which many of them believe is actually a “theory crisis.” In this talk, Allen will at the arguments of three prominent mathematical psychologists and argue that while mathematical psychology does not lack small “t” theories, it has been arguably less successful in formulating big “T" Theories that have the kind of scope, generality, and predictive power that led Wigner to write of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics. This talk is offered both in person and online. Light refreshments will be served.

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Are you interested in publishing your scholarly writing so that anyone can read it? Would you like to make your work accessible to the greater research community? Publishing open access is a great option but it can be expensive for authors. Don’t let expensive APC’s (article processing charges) get in your way. The Library can help! Through UC agreements with scholarly publishers, the Library can cover most, if not all, of your publishing costs. From covering your APC to hosting your article in the University’s institutional scholarly repository, the Library can assist in finding ways to share your research openly and inexpensively. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop. Instructors: Gissel Rios, Open Science and Collections Librarian Hannah Sutherland, Open Science and Collections Librarian

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There’s more to the US Census than meets the eye. Want to learn how you can access and use census data in your research? Join librarians Maggie Tarmey and Kelsey Brown to explore reports, data profiles and datasets on data.census.gov. This lecture-based workshop is designed for researchers of any experience level and will not be recorded. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day before the workshop Led by Maggie Tarmey, librarian for Geography, Maps, and Economics, and Kelsey Brown, librarian for Archaeology, Public Policy and Urban Planning.

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Food studies is a growing interdisciplinary field that examines the cultural, economic, political and environmental dimensions of food. Research resources in food studies are equally broad, and can present a challenge for beginner researchers and experienced researchers alike. This workshop will provide an introductory overview of food studies related resources at the UCLA Library and beyond. This workshop is intended for those just getting started in food studies research, as well as experienced researchers interested in exploring beyond their academic specialty. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop. Instructor: Alexandra Solodkaya, Rothman Family Food Studies Librarian

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Join for an introduction to commonly used Nursing resources such as CINAHL, Joanna Briggs Suite, ebooks, etc. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop. Instructor: Antonia Osuna-Garcia, Health and Life Sciences Librarian

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Learn about the world-class map collection at the UCLA Library and how to incorporate maps in your research. We will discuss how to find and access maps, and then move towards how to read maps critically and discuss the many ways they can be incorporated in research across all disciplines and majors. Researching primary sources like maps can be intimidating, but after this workshop you’ll leave with the skills you need for success. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you are registered, you will receive the Zoom invitation details the day before the workshop.

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Ever been curious about what technical standards and patents are? Or how to find them? In this workshop you'll gain an introductory overview to technical standards and patents, as well as guidance on how to locate them at UCLA. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop. Instructor: Shelby Hallman, Physical Science and Engineering Librarian

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Presented by the UCLA Library and the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences Speaker: Robin Choudhury, professor of cardiovascular medicine, University of Oxford When Aristotle searched for the first signs of life, he lifted a flap in the shell of a fertilized chick egg and there he saw a beating heart – the self-evident originator of life. The beating heart has fascinated thinkers from Aristotle to Aquinas, Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Descartes and Pascal. Across time and place, the story of our understanding of the heart has been richly decorated with images that illuminate the dance between art, religion, philosophy and ‘scientific’ thinking. It is a truly interdisciplinary organ. The secret of our fascination lies in its apparent sentience and automatic and responsive beat. The mystery of the self-beating heart was solved by Professor Denis Noble (as a graduate student in London in 1960). A demonstration of early biological computation, he solved the puzzle that had hung over the ages. And yet, even as the heart function is understood, it retains all its fascination as a cultural icon. This is the story of The Beating Heart. This talk is offered both in person and online. Light refreshments will be served.

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Whether you’re looking to enhance your paper, learn your community’s history or trace your family tree, primary sources are a vital resource for any researcher looking to engage with the past and present. If you’ve ever been intimidated by archival spaces or had difficulty finding specific sources, UCLA Library is here to help. Join Kelsey Brown and Kate Ridgewell as they guide you through enriching your research by understanding, finding, accessing and incorporating primary sources. This lecture-based workshop is designed for students and researchers with little to no experience with primary sources and will not be recorded. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day before the workshop.

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Using a citation manager adds ease and efficiency to conducting research and writing papers, but what citation manager is the best for you? We’ll describe the pros and cons of EndNote and Zotero to help you decide between them! This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop. Instructors: Molly Hemphill, Medical Education Librarian Robert Johnson, Clinical and Research Support Librarian

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UCLA students, faculty and staff are invited to register for this hands-on workshop exploring the ethical and practical uses of generative A.I. tools. Led by UCLA Library staff, this 90 minute workshop will focus on writing effective prompts, evaluating A.I.’s ability to understand and summarize academic writing and explore ways to use A.I. tools to improve research strategies, while keeping issues of plagiarism, intellectual property protection and other impacts of A.I. in mind. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own or borrow a CLICC laptop or Chromebook(opens in a new tab) to follow along with workshop activities. This workshop will be led by Michelle Brasseur and Helen Song.

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