Training sessions

Bibliographical references management program RefWorks

Duration: 45 minutes
Target audience: Researchers, lecturers
Place: All KTU Libraries

The participants will learn about the reference management program ”RefWorks“ subscribed by KTU. In the training session, the participants will learn how to create user accounts, preserve bibliographical data and create bibliographical records manually. Furthermore, the participants will learn how to install a plugin to the Microsoft Word program, allowing to insert in-text citations and automatically generating a list of references according to the selected citation style.

Learning material

Databases presentations

Duration: 45 minutes
Target audience: Researchers, lecturers
Place: All KTU Libraries

You will get acquainted with KTU subscribed and purchased e-resources. You will learn the types of databases in terms of content and access, also how to choose the most appropriate electronic resource for your studies or project, how to search the database using search operators. You will also learn why it is worth creating a personal account in the database. During the demo, you’ll see how to search databases, download and save to your device e-book or article from database.

How to conduct plagiarism detection (for researchers)?

Duration: 45 min.
Target group: Researchers
Place: Central library, Mechanical Engineering and Design Library, Chemical Technology Library, Informatics Faculty Library, Chemical Technology Library, Civil Engineering and Architecture Library, Informatics Library.

Intellectual property rights and plagiarism prevention

Duration: 45 minutes
Target audience: Researchers, lecturers
Place: All KTU Libraries

The students will get familiar with the intellectual property law, the copyright and related rights act, the property and non-property rights, the requirements applied to the use of the works by other authors for teaching and research, learn about the Creative Commons licenses allowing to use the works by other authors and indicating the conditions which allow to share and use the works without copyright infringement.