{"id":5971,"date":"2026-09-24T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/?p=5971"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:25:15","slug":"fall-mcgoogan-sessions-offer-three-chances-to-polish-research-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/2026\/09\/24\/fall-mcgoogan-sessions-offer-three-chances-to-polish-research-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall McGoogan Sessions offer three chances to polish research skills\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/09\/McGoogan-Sessions_blog_0926-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/09\/McGoogan-Sessions_blog_0926-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"Gray and blue text on a white background reads Join us for McGoogan Sessions Research Month 2026 and is bordered by red, gold, blue, green, gray and black color. \" class=\"wp-image-5972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/09\/McGoogan-Sessions_blog_0926-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/09\/McGoogan-Sessions_blog_0926-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/09\/McGoogan-Sessions_blog_0926-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/09\/McGoogan-Sessions_blog_0926-1536x922.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/09\/McGoogan-Sessions_blog_0926-2048x1229.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This fall\u2019s&nbsp;McGoogan&nbsp;Sessions offer&nbsp;three distinct opportunities to grow your research skills and add&nbsp;tools&nbsp;for&nbsp;your academic&nbsp;work belt. McGoogan librarians will&nbsp;guide you through the following&nbsp;hour-long courses, providing&nbsp;practical tips and&nbsp;important context.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EndNote: Basic to Advanced Features<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday, Oct. 6 \/&nbsp;Noon to&nbsp;1 p.m.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This session will cover the citation and reference management&nbsp;tool&nbsp;from A to Z,&nbsp;both&nbsp;for newcomers and users looking to brush up.&nbsp;Discover how to add and organize your citations,&nbsp;as well as integrate EndNote within&nbsp;Microsoft Word to make in-text citations and build bibliographies.&nbsp;Taught by Danielle Westmark.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unmc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/jyRnFZowSiiTHaNN6rWGHw\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Register to attend via Zoom, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noopener\">Register to attend via Zoom<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Introduction to Zotero<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday, Oct. 8 \/ Noon to 1 p.m.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zotero helps scholars manage references and resources. Learn how&nbsp;to import and organize records&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;use Zotero\u2019s toolbar&nbsp;within Microsoft Word&nbsp;to make&nbsp;quick,&nbsp;accurate&nbsp;work of&nbsp;your&nbsp;citations and bibliographies. This session is&nbsp;designed for new Zotero users\u2014as well as&nbsp;experienced users who&nbsp;haven\u2019t&nbsp;yet worked with&nbsp;Zotero&nbsp;version&nbsp;10.&nbsp;&nbsp;Taught by Cindy Schmidt.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unmc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/Pq9dTNiVTTqiRh4cO7x92A#\/registration\">Register to attend via Zoom<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Navigating Open Access&nbsp;Publishing: From&nbsp;Funder Mandates to Predatory Journals<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wednesday, Oct. 21 \/ Noon to 1 p.m.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get to know the best and most difficult aspects of open-access journal publishing, including&nbsp;differences between public and&nbsp;open access;&nbsp;achieving funding\u2014and&nbsp;navigating potential tensions between funders and publishers;&nbsp;and how to make sense of&nbsp;email solicitations that seem dubious.&nbsp;Taught by Heather Brown.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unmc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/nOrkMFY5Qjq-_Hw12koSkA#\/registration\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Register to attend via Zoom, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Register to attend via Zoom<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall\u2019s&nbsp;McGoogan&nbsp;Sessions offer&nbsp;three distinct opportunities to grow your research skills and add&nbsp;tools&nbsp;for&nbsp;your academic&nbsp;work belt. McGoogan librarians will&nbsp;guide you through the following&nbsp;hour-long courses, providing&nbsp;practical tips and&nbsp;important context.&nbsp;&nbsp; EndNote: Basic to Advanced Features&nbsp; Tuesday, Oct. 6 \/&nbsp;Noon to&nbsp;1 p.m.&nbsp; This session will cover the citation and reference management&nbsp;tool&nbsp;from A to Z,&nbsp;both&nbsp;for newcomers and users looking to brush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,66,65,33,64,18],"class_list":["post-5971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-events","tag-instruction","tag-mcgoogan-sessions","tag-research","tag-resources","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5988,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions\/5988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}