Guided tours and instruction sessions

Are you interested in offering such a guided tour or instruction session as part of a course and/or would you like more detailed information about the content of the sessions?

Please contact the Training & Support Team at instructie.lwbib@ugent.be.

Library tour

In a guided library tour we show students around the library building, and introduce them to our basic services. It is also possible to request a tour focusing on one or more specific collections.

Information skills sessions

Information skills sessions introduce students in an interactive way to the information landscape and teach them where and how to search scientific literature in an efficient way. The sessions are always tailored to the students’ field of study.

We offer the following sessions:

1. Introduction to the library (15 min)
   A short intro to our basic services.
2. Introduction to searching scientific literature (75 min)
   This library instruction is targeting students from the first bachelor years who received a research assignment. They learn what scientific literature is, and what information channels they can use to find it. We teach them basic skills to search for scientific literature via Google Scholar, databases (relevant to the course) and the UGent library catalogue.
3. Advanced searching for scientific literature  (75 min)
   This session provides students with the necessary tools to search scientific literature for their Bachelor's or Master's thesis. The basic skills are revisited, but they are now complemented with more advanced search strategies. The session also covers the use of AI tools to find sources (e.g. Litmaps, Elicit) and the reference manager Zotero.

Session “Referencing with Zotero” (60min)

With Zotero, you can organise all your sources and easily add correct references in your text. Zotero also helps you to automatically create bibliographies for your research papers, bachelor's or master's thesis. In this session, you will be introduced to all the basic functionalities for storing, organising and citing sources.

Session “Searching scientific literature with AI” (60min)

Did you know that AI can help not only to write texts, but also to search scientific literature in an efficient way? In this workshop, we will go over possible applications, and you will learn the ins and outs of some useful AI tools, such as Litmaps, Elicit and Semantic Scholar.

Session “Research Data Management” (60min)

For several years now, a Research Data Management Plan (DMP) has been an essential part of every project application to national and international fund providers such as the FWO or the European Horizon programme. This session targets master students. We will discuss why a DMP is necessary and look at how such a DMP helps to write the actual project application. We give tips on how to better manage research data, and show how to create a DMP.

Are you interested in one of our sessions? Please contact instructie.lwbib@ugent.be for more information.