Self-paced courses

Learn about the basics of copyright, including how it affects your rights as a scholarly author. This one-module class is geared toward graduate students and faculty.

Learn about how and when to rely on fair use in reusing copyrighted works and how it can support scholarship and teaching. This one-module class is geared toward graduate students and faculty.

Learn about how Creative Commons can help you easily and legally reuse material from other people in your scholarship and instruction. This one-module class is geared toward graduate students and faculty.

Learn about AI and library research by considering various issues with and recommended best practices for AI use in your research. The six-module course highlights the importance of evaluating AI-generated content, as well as acknowledging and understanding ethical and perhaps even legal implications when using AI for research.

Learn about strategies for writing a literature review paper, including searching the literature, organizing sources, reading and evaluating research, and writing and editing the paper. This class is designed for graduate students and should take about one hour to complete, with extra optional activities.

Learn about the ORCID iD, which offers researchers a unique identifier to help distinguish them and their works, including how it can help researchers and how to set up an account. This 10-15 minute course is aimed at graduate students and faculty.

Learn how to cite a wide variety of source types (e.g., journal articles, books, and websites) and format papers according to APA style. This course is geared toward students at all levels and should take about 30-45 minutes to complete.

Learn how to identify potential journals to publish with and what to look for. This module is best for graduate students and early career researchers. It should take about 30 minutes to work through.

Learn strategies and tools for conducting major evidence synthesis projects such as systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and meta-analyses. The six-module course is geared toward graduate students and faculty and should take about 2-3 hours to complete.

Learn about how you can use open educational resources in your class to help ensure students financial issues don’t bar students ability to access their course materials. This six-module class is geared toward instructors and should take about two hours to complete.

Learn about Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), as well as how you can combine PKM with other productivity strategies and tools to help ease your workload, and, most importantly, generate new, actionable knowledge from your research or projects. While the five-module course is geared for graduate students, anyone interested in learning about this emerging topic should engage with the course. It should take between one-two hours to complete, not including the optional reflections and activities.