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Fall 2022 Professional Development: Check Here for October, November and December Trainings

Upcoming fall 2022 webinars include special events, trainings and introductory webinars from EBSCO, Digital Library of Georgia, PowerNotes and more. See below for registration and other details. This page will be updated as more are added.

EBSCO: LearningExpress Library’s College Resources
When: Oct. 19 @ 3 p.m.

Join EBSCO for a tour of our college-level resources, including practice tests, tutorials and eBooks for the ACCUPLACER, ASSET, CLEP and DSST, and graduate school admissions exams practice for the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, and more!

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Atmire: DSpace and Add-on Modules
When: Oct. 20 @ 10 a.m.

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Digital Library of Georgia: MetaArchive Cooperative
When: Oct. 20 @ 2 p.m.

MetaArchive members govern and maintain a secure and cost-effective repository that provides long-term care for digital materials, offering a transparent community-run alternative to preservation solutions that rely on commercial cloud storage. This presentation will discuss distributed digital preservation concepts and how MetaArchive members collaborate to enact them and build their own knowledge and workflows.

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EBSCO: Science Reference Center Overview for GALILEO
When: Oct. 20 @ 3 p.m.

Explore Science Reference Center, EBSCO’s full text database with content from hundreds of science magazines, journals, and reference books. EBSCO will review key database features and content including science experiments, curriculum-aligned lesson plans, biographies, essays, high-quality science videos and a vast image collection.

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Cambridge University Press Transformative Agreement for GALILEO
When: Oct. 24 @ 11 a.m.

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PowerNotes: Introductory Webinars

The full version of PowerNotes is now available for GALILEO participating academic libraries (USG, TCSG, -PALS). Learn how to access this feature at the following 30-minute training events.

  • Oct. 28 @ 10 a.m.
  • Nov. 3 @ 3 p.m.
  • Nov. 9 @ 9 a.m.
  • Dec. 1 @ 12 p.m.
  • Dec. 6 @ 3 p.m.

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Georgia State Open Access Week
When: Oct. 24 - 26

Oct. 24 @ 2 p.m. – Open for Student Success: Ensuring Equity with Open Education Resources in Course Content
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Oct. 25 @ 1 p.m. – Creative Commons Licenses
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Oct. 26 @ 2 p.m. – An Introduction to Preprints and Green Open Access
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KSU’s Open Access Week
When: Oct. 24 - 27

Oct. 24 @ 12 p.m. – Hot Takes on Open Peer Review
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Oct. 25 @ 12 p.m. – Searching for OA Scholarly Content
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Oct. 25 @ 1 p.m. – Lessons Learned on Licensing Presentations from an On-Campus Student Research Symposium
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Oct. 26 @ 12 p.m. – To Move a River: Libraries as Funders for Open Access Publication
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Oct. 26 @ 12:20 p.m. – Data Sharing Through Open Access Data Repositories
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Oct. 26 @ 12:40 p.m. – KSU’s Digital Course Repository (DCR)
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Oct. 26 @ 1 p.m. – Beyond the Books and Lecture Halls: An Amateur Entrepreneur’s OA Ramblings
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Oct. 27 @ 12 p.m. – Transparent Practices for Open Access Journals
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Oct. 27 @ 1 p.m. – Capitalizing on a Captive Audience: A Collaborative Workshop Connecting Graduate Students to Open Access
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Conferences and other dates to remember:

  • Open Education Conference, Oct. 17-20 (GALILEO speaker)
  • International Open Access Week, Oct. 24-30
  • Georgia Council for Social Studies Conference, Oct. 27-28 (GALILEO exhibitor)
  • Charleston Conference (in-person), Nov. 1-4 (GALILEO attending)
  • Georgia Educational Technology Conference, Nov. 2-4 (GALILEO exhibitor)
  • Charleston Conference (virtual), Nov. 14-18