Useful Tools for Reference Management and Plagiarism Detection ONLINE

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After completing this workshop, participants will be familiarized with the usage of the reference management tools Zotero and EndNote. To avoid plagiarism in their academic writing, the participants will use the plagiarism detection software Turnitin to check their own texts and analyze and interpret the similarity report delivered by Turnitin.

Kursinhalte

• Part 1:
1. Introduction to the Reference Management Software Zotero and EndNote
2. Collaborative working with Zotero and Endnote
• Part 2: Plagiarism detection software Turnitin

Form

Demonstrations, exercises and the testing of the software “Turnitin”

Adressatinnen und Adressaten

All Doctoral Candidates & Postdocs

Informationen zu den Dozierenden

Cornelia Eitel
Head of Customer Service, University Library Basel

Monika Wechsler
Head of UB Medicine, University Library Basel

Leistungsspektrum / Workload

Total of 4h 30min

Besonderheiten

Once registration is open, applications will be collected for 24 hours and course places allocated by lot. All registrations received after the initial 24h period will be put on a waiting list and assigned on a first come, first served basis.

Course places/places on the waiting list will be confirmed by e-mail. Course registrations can only be canceled before the registration period ends (send an e-mail to grace@unibas.ch). Full course attendance is mandatory. Participants who fail to attend a course without prior notification or withdraw after the registration deadline are subject to a fee of CHF 30. In addition, participants who cancel their course registration at a later point in time, are absent without an excuse or do not attend the entire course will, for reasons of fairness, not be considered for course registration in the following semester and will be removed from other courses offered in the same semester. Please find the detailed regulations on the Transferable Skills Homepage.