Updates for graduate students and postdocs

University Library news

Data Carpentries workshops on R

The Libraries’ Research Data Services team hosted a hands-on Intro to R workshop in January. This two-day training covered the basics of coding in R, working with various types of data, data wrangling, and creating basic visualizations. The team regularly organizes Carpentries workshops every semester before the start of the spring and fall terms. These workshops are popular and open to everyone but are tailored primarily to graduate students, faculty, and staff. Additional training opportunities and workshops can be found and requested through the team's website.

Support for dual enrollment courses

The University Libraries supports student success for Collegiate Academies. With their NetIDs, dual enrollment students can access all online library resources through our main library search. Learn more about library services for dual enrollment students on our website and find supporting instructional materials on our guide to dual enrollment teaching and learning materials.

Updates to systematic review services

A systematic review is a comprehensive literature review that involves finding, coding, appraising, and synthesizing all of the previous research on a given topic in an unbiased and well-documented manner. Librarians can support you as you conduct a systematic review or other evidence synthesis project, such as a scoping review or meta-analysis. We now offer different levels of service, ranging from single consultations to more in-depth support during each stage of the review. Information on each service level, as well as a new request form, is available through the service's page on the Libraries' website.

If you’re interested in learning more about what evidence syntheses are and what they entail, please visit our guide on the topic or enroll in the self-paced WebCampus course, “An Introduction to Evidence Syntheses.” Please reach out to Elena Azadbakht, Health Sciences Librarian, with any questions.

Featured resources

Publish open access through the Libraries

In order to better support University faculty and students who wish to publish their research as open access (OA), the Libraries have entered into agreements with several publishers that allow our researchers to publish OA without additional fees:

Cambridge University Publishing
Royal Society of Chemistry – 10 articles a year; first come, first served
ACM Open

To learn more about these deals, visit our open access guide. The Libraries do not have a fund to help pay for article processing charges. If you are publishing with a publisher that is not listed above and would still like to make your work OA, we encourage you to talk with your subject librarian about depositing your work for free in the institutional repository ScholarWolf.

Self-enroll modules

We know graduate students and post-docs have busy schedules, so we’re working to make learning important research and teaching skills available when you need them through self-enroll modules. Available in WebCampus, you can sign up for any of our modules as you like and work through them at your pace. Current topics include copyright, open educational resources, systematic reviews, literature reviews, ORCID, and more.

LibKey Nomad

LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that provides one-click access to content from library subscribed resources when searching Google, PubMed, or other sites. Go to LibKey Nomad and choose your browser to get started. It works for ebooks and journal articles on many publisher websites. LibKey.io is a related tool that lets you search by DOI or PubMed ID. Contact your subject librarian for questions or assistance.

Scholarly research services

The Libraries offer a number of different scholarly research services to support faculty and student research projects, including support for GIS, copyright, citation managers, open access publishing, open educational resources, ORCID identifiers, patents and trademarks research, data management, scholarly impact, systematic reviews, and the ScholarWolf institutional repository. We also offer several self-paced courses in some of these areas. To learn more, go to the scholarly research services page.

Events and exhibits

Nevada Open Education Symposium

Register now for March 7 for Nevada’s first statewide virtual symposium on open education! This free event will provide a chance for faculty and students experienced with and new to open educational resources (OER) to gather and learn from each other. The half-day symposium will include short presentations from faculty throughout the state on how they’re incorporating open educational resources into their classrooms, ask questions about OER, and hear how OER help students learn. To learn more, email Librarian Teresa Schultz.

Public domain celebration

Celebrate the public domain with the University Libraries during the week of March 10! Each year a group of new works enters the public domain; this year’s works include A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, works by Frida Kahlo, and movie shorts featuring Mickey Mouse. The Libraries will offer several events to honor items in the public domain, including:

A Wikimedia edit-a-thon – March 13 at 3 pm in MIKC 114. Students will learn about copyright and the public domain as they upload images from the University Archives to help spread their reach and usage.
Collage Coasters: Remixing Public Domain Art – March 11 at 10 am and again on March 14 at 2 pm in the DeLaMare Library. Participants will make coasters while learning about how they can reuse and adapt works from the public domain.

We’ll also be playing new works in the public domain in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center Atrium as well as featuring faculty who have used public domain material in their research.

Image of Congressman Vucanovich standing in a doorway.

Now on Exhibit: Nevada’s Silver Lady

The Libraries and its Special Collections and University Archives department are pleased to invite the campus and greater community to the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center to view a new exhibit on display on the third floor of the building. “Barbara Vucanovich and Nevada Women in Politics” focuses on the life of Barbara F. Vucanovich, who was the first Nevada woman elected to federal office, serving in the House of Representatives from 1983 to 1997. In this exhibit, get a glimpse of the many facets of her service to Nevada and the United States at home and abroad, and meet some of the other Nevada Women in political office since 1918. This exhibit is on display through March 2025.

Upcoming Exhibit

The People's University: Agricultural Extension in Nevada, 1914 – Today

Over the summer, Special Collections and University Archives will host “The People's University: Agricultural Extension in Nevada, 1914 – Today,” an exhibit on the history of Extension in Nevada, guest curated by Life Sciences and Environmental Sciences Librarian Amy Shannon. The exhibit will draw on Extension bulletins and other university archives materials.