“Open Access (OA) Funding Updates” By Anna Craft, Thursday January 22 at 12pm In 2026, UNCG authors continue to have a number of options to help fund their open access publishing activities. In this session, we'll provide updates about available financial awards, as well as APC waivers and discounts that are... Continue reading...
“AI prompt engineering for academic research: best practices” by Steve Cramer, Tuesday February 3 at 12pm How should we be teaching students to craft generative AI prompts for academic research projects? And how can students use AI as a tool to better engage with academic sources, including journal and research databases? We... Continue reading...
“AI assistants in academic databases (retrieval-augmented generation)” by Steve Cramer and H. Blake-Lee, Tuesday February 17 at 12pm Scholarly publishers are adding AI tools to many products that the UNCG Libraries funds for the campus. Most of these AI tools provide RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), which apply large language model semantic capabilities... Continue reading...
“Gale Archival Materials” by Jenny Dale and Joshua Olsen, Tuesday March 3 at 11am In 2025, the University Libraries increased its digital holdings with new Gale archival materials, expanding our collection of Gale primary source databases. Join our webinar to explore these exciting additions and learn how they complement our existing online library... Continue reading...
“Governance Indexes” by Rachel Olsen, Wednesday March 25 at 12pm Governance indexes are composite measures that assess how effectively institutions govern, based on political, legal, and administrative indicators. These unique sources of information can be extremely useful but are also complicated and sometimes controversial. In this session, we will look at several... Continue reading...