Full course description
This is a REd Synchronous (live) class.
LIVE SESSION: Thursday, April 16, 2026 @12:00pm - 1:00pm Mountain Time (US and Canada), Zoom.
Course Description: Learn how to use library databases to enhance and protect your researcher identity. Discover the impact of your research, how to manage and promote your research, how to determine which scholars have cited your work, and how to locate top-ranked journals in your field or science.
This presentation will explain methods for effectively and efficiently using Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, ORCID and a variety of social media tools to maintain your online scholarly profile. Bibliometric measures such as h-factor, an author-level metric, and Impact Factor, the average number of times articles published in the past two years, will also be described.
Course Objectives
At the conclusion of this class, you should be able to:
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Alfred Mowdood, MLS
Librarian
J. Willard Marriott Library
Tallie Casucci, MLIS
Associate Librarian
J. Willard Marriott Library
Acknowledgement: Special thanks to Lorelei Rutledge, Associate Librarian at the J. Willard Marriott Library, who co-developed and taught this class.
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REd Synchronous classes are taught by subject matter experts, and provide both fundamental and advanced skills training in flipped classroom format. These classes are offered live (currently, via Zoom), wherein participants will attend and participate in the 1-hour live lecture/presentation. Participants will be required to work pre-class and post-class activities outside the classroom. These activities can include: readings, videos, etc.
Class Duration: Total duration for synchronous classes are approximately 2 hours. Those two (2) hours will be broken down into:
A live session which will take approximately 1 hour (45-minute presentation and 15-minute Q&A) and;
Pre and Post-work activities which will take approximately 1 hour, in total.