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Service Overview

OU Libraries offers workshops targeted to researchers of all levels (students, postdocs, faculty, and staff) to increase understanding of research and data better practices. Workshops focus on a broadly targeted mix of concepts and tools. We can bring these workshops to your location, or you can attend regularly scheduled workshops throughout the academic year. 

You can view upcoming workshops on our Event Calendar or sign up to receive notifications of these upcoming scheduled workshops on the Libraries Research Workshops listserv.

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What We Offer

We host workshops on a variety of topics for various skill levels. Workshops range from 1-hour introductions to multi-day Data Carpentries. Attend one of our scheduled workshops or request that we come to you by contacting your librarian or the Research Workshops Committee Chair.  

  • Workshops for all levels of experience
  • In-person, hybrid, and online formats
  • We can come to you or host in our spaces 

Workshops Offered

Check out the different types of workshops we offer. Each type has a dropdown that provides information about duration, formats available, and prerequisites. If a workshop you are interested in indicates that it is not regularly scheduled, please reach out to your librarian to request an on-demand workshop. 

Survival Skills 101: Beginner-level workshops for researchers. These workshops cover basic data and computing skills needed in all research fields.

Better practices for research, data, coding, and communication.

These beginner- to intermediate-level workshops focus on specific tools to implement workflows.  These specific skill-sets meet specific needs of individual researchers and complement concepts shown in the Survival Skills and Better Practices collections. 

Library instruction sessions targeted to students and researchers of all levels (but mainly to undergraduate and graduate students) to increase working efficiency and ability to find appropriate information. Sessions are customized for each class or research group in collaboration with the instructor. A small sample of examples presentations and worksheets is available online and examples are linked from topics where available below.

The Carpentries teaches foundational coding, and data science skills to researchers worldwide. Currently we schedule three Carpentries workshops per semester, with at least one each focusing on R and Python, respectively.  You can learn more about these on the Carpentries @ OU page.  No prior experience is needed, but if you would like additional preparation, we recommend taking Using Computers for Scholarly Research first, as it discusses how to think about and interact with computer programs in a scholarly context.

  • Data Carpentry for Ecology with R, OpenRefine, and SQL
    • Prerequisites: None
    • Duration: 2 days (16 hours)
    • Formats Available: In-person, online
    • Regularly Scheduled: No
  • Data Carpentry for Geospatial with R
    • Prerequisites: None
    • Duration: 2 days (16 hours)
    • Formats Available: In-person, online
    • Regularly Scheduled: No
  • Data Carpentry for Social Sciences with R, Tidy Data, and OpenRefine
    • Prerequisites: None
    • Duration: 2 days (16 hours)
    • Formats Available: In-person, online
    • Regularly Scheduled: Spring and Fall
  • Software Carpentry with Python, Bash, and Git/GitHub
    • Prerequisites: None
    • Duration: 2 days (16 hours)
    • Formats Available: In-person, online
    • Regularly Scheduled: Spring and Fall
  • Software Carpentry with R, Bash, and Git/GitHub
    • Prerequisites: None
    • Duration: 2 days (16 hours)
    • Formats Available: In-person, online
    • Regularly Scheduled: No
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Contact Information

Research Workshops Committee
(405) 325-3341
cmcurry@ou.edu
Bizzell Memorial Library

FAQs

Each semester, we host multiple workshops in Bizzell. Check out our Events Calendar for scheduled workshops.