
Sweeten Up Your Skills – Coffee Break Webinars
Grab a cup of coffee, a sugary donut or any favourite snack of yours and meet us on Zoom. For 30 minutes, we’ll discuss various key aspects of academic work and publishing really worth knowing.
Our themed weeks will start in November and run through February 2022. The program covers a wide range of topics: literature search, citation, reference management, research data management, publishing at TUM, citation-based research evaluation, and bibliometrics.
5 days, 5 topics
always at 13:30
30 minutes
You can book single webinars or a complete themed week. Please register online. You will then receive a registration confirmation by e-mail and the link to the Zoom meeting room.
Topics, Dates, Registration
Themed Week CW 45: Finding Literature
8 – 12 November 2021, always at 1.30 p.m.
Mon 08.11.2021: How to find books on your reading list
Tue 09.11.2021: How to find books on your topic
Wed 10.11.2021: How to find articles from e-journals
Thur 11.11.2021: How to search databases
Fri 12.11.2021: How to access literature not available at TUM
Registration closed
Themed Week CW 46: Citing
15 – 19 November 2021, always at 1.30 p.m.
Mon 15.11.2021: How to cite in the text
Tue 16.11.2021: How to cite images
Wed 17.11.2021: How to cite Wikipedia, reviews, and corrected or retracted articles
Thur 18.11.2021: How to cite interviews and personal communication
Fri 19.11.2021: How to cite internet sources
Registration closed
Themed Week CW 47: Reference Management
22 – 26 November 2021, always at 1.30 p.m.
Mon 22.11.2021: Choosing reference management software made easy
Tue 23.11.2021: Citavi in a nutshell
Wed 24.11.2021: EndNote in a nutshell
Thur 25.11.2021: Mendeley in a nutshell
Fri 26.11.2021: Editing citation styles in Citavi and EndNote
Registration closed
Themed Week CW 3: Visibility for Your Publications
17 – 21 January 2022, always at 1.30 p.m.
Mon 17.01.2022: Academic identity management and ORCID iD
Tue 18.01.2022: Author records in literature databases: Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar
Wed 19.01.2022: Academic networking: ResearchGate, LinkedIn, Academia.edu
Thur 20.01.2022: TUM Publication Guidelines: your affiliation(s)
Fri 21.01.2022: Choosing the right journal for your publication
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Themed Week CW 4: Research Data
24 – 28 January 2022, always at 1.30 p.m.
Mon 24.01.2022: Checklist for FAIR research data
Tue 25.01.2022: TUM Workbench: the all-in-one tool for research data management
Wed 26.01.2022: Electronic lab notebook
Thur 27.01.2022: Complying with policies and legal requirements
Fri 28.01.2022: Life hacks for version control, organising and naming files
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Themed Week CW 5: Publishing
31 January – 4 February 2022, always at 1.30 p.m.
Mon 31.01.2022: How to publish your doctoral thesis
Tue 01.02.2022: How to publish on the TUM institutional respository mediaTUM
Wed 02.02.2022: How to publish Open Access
Thur 03.02.2022: How to identify predatory journals
Fri 04.02.2022: How to publish at TUM.University Press
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Themed Week CW 6: Research Performance Indicators
7 – 11 February 2022, always at 1.30 p.m.
Mon 07.02.2022: What is bibliometrics?
Tue 08.02.2022: h-index: indicators for authors
Wed 09.02.2022: Impact factor and CiteScore: indicators for journals
Thur 10.02.2022: Responsible metrics: benefits and limits of bibliometrics
Fri 11.02.2022: Research trends and cooperations: data analytics with SciVal
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Do your have any questions?
Then please write to us: workshop@ub.tum.de