“UpToDate for Clinical and Patient Education” by Lea Leininger, Tuesday September 23 11am Are you in a health profession? Or are you a member of the general public who goes to Dr. Google for health information? Either way, you’ll be interested in learning about UpToDate. This library database has clinical care summaries, advice for health... Continue reading...
“Library Renovation Updates, Fall 2025” by Amy Harris Houk, Tuesday December 2 11am Description coming soon! Sign Up
“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...
"The new AI-powered tools for scholarly literature discovery" by Steve Cramer, Tuesday March 24 at 12pm - Learn about some of the AI-augmented databases for research discovery and citation analysis. Examples include Scite, Research Rabbit, Consensus, Undermind, and Elicit. These tools allow researchers to search by semantics (concepts), map scholarly... 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...
"Open Access at UNCG: Support from the University Libraries" by Anna Craft, Thursday August 27 at 12pm *45 minutes In this session, we'll offer a brief overview of some of the areas where the University Libraries offer open access support, including open access funding, sharing in the NC DOCKS repository, and... Continue reading...
"Smarter Literature Reviews: Connecting AI to Scholarly Databases with MCP Servers" by Steve Cramer, Wednesday September 30 at 12pm Learn how to search, rank, and analyze scholarly literature with AI while avoiding hallucinations. Sign Up
"Share your open access scholarship: Introducing the new NC DOCKS at UNCG" by Anna Craft and Tiffany Henry, Wednesday October 21 at 12:00pm *45 minutes In this session, we'll offer an introduction to the new NC DOCKS repository at UNCG, which shares open access scholarship from faculty and students. We'll... Continue reading...
"Easy data mapping options at UNCG: demographics, health, consumers, and more" by Steve Cramer and Stacey Blanco Mendoza, Wednesday October 28 at 12pm We will introduce three web-based data mapping (GIS) tools funded by the UNCG Libraries: PolicyMap, Social Explorer, and SimplyAnalytics. These tools provide huge collections of demographic, psychographic, and... Continue reading...
