Academic Integrity Month features a variety of activities, workshops and events designed to get everyone thinking about how to act with integrity in and outside of the university. This is your chance to become familiar with resources, policies and supports, and to gain the skills you need to master your education, your work and your life.
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Wednesday, October 24 from 11:00am - 1:00pm
Located: Brodie Atrium, Bannatyne Campus
Stop by our table in the Brodie Atrium to learn more about Library resources, workshops, and tools to help you maintain your academic identity. Plus, take a stab at our citation contest and you could win a great prize pack.
Monday, October 29 from 11:00am - 2:00pm (please note date change)
Located outside Elizabeth Dafoe Library, Fort Garry Campus
Come ask your questions about academic integrity, play a game, and enter a ballot to win a UM BookStore gift card!
Undergraduate Students | Graduate Students | Teaching Staff and Researchers
Tuesday, October 2, 12:30 - 2:00pm
409 Tier
Hosted by Academic Learning Centre
Register here: lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3456051
Description: This workshop focuses on writing clearly, developing well organized paragraphs and developing essays that meet assignment instructions.
Tuesday, October 9, 12:30 - 2:00pm
409 Tier
Hosted by the Academic Learning Centre
Register here: ib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3456052
Description: This workshop clarifies the use of quotations, paraphrases and summaries in APA style writing. The emphasis will be on how to process and present other writers’ work correctly, so that your writing meets academic integrity standards.
Wednesday, October 10, 12:30 - 1:30pm
Migizii Agamik
Hosted by Student Advocacy
Come drop by the academic integrity booth in Migizii Agamik to ask any questions you have related to academic integrity and students rights/responsibilities. You will also have the opportunity to complete a ballot to enter a prize draw for a UM BookStore gift card!
Hosted by the International Centre
Undergraduate student sessions:
Description: This interactive session offered by the International Centre will allow new international students to discuss and learn about academic culture in Canada, both inside and outside of the classroom. International Student Advisors will review terminology at the University of Manitoba, and cover topics that are important for developing strategies to help you adjust to your studies here at the U of M. Undergraduate and graduate students should plan to attend one of the following sessions (both sessions will have the same content).
Registration in advance is not required. Sign-in will begin 15 minutes prior to the beginning of each session, but note that space in each session is limited. Please bring your student card with you.
Friday, October 26, 2018 2:30 - 3:30pm
313 Tier
Hosted by the Academic Learning Centre
Register here: lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3456053
Description: Discover how to improve your academic performance after midterms.
Thursday, October 4, 2018 12:00 - 1:00pm
Ross Lab, Room 232, Neil John Maclean Library (Bannatyne)
Register here: manitobagrad.hobsonsradius.com/ssc/eform/zBc078Gfx670x67f3Gal.ssc
Description: Do you struggle with organizing your PDFs? In this session students will learn how they can use this free, easy to use program to quickly organize all your PDF articles, generate bibliographies in a variety of citation styles and cite while you write.
Hosted by the International Centre
Graduate student sessions:
Description: This interactive session offered by the International Centre will allow new international students to discuss and learn about academic culture in Canada, both inside and outside of the classroom. International Student Advisors will review terminology at the University of Manitoba, and cover topics that are important for developing strategies to help you adjust to your studies here at the U of M. Undergraduate and graduate students should plan to attend one of the following sessions (both sessions will have the same content).
Registration in advance is not required. Sign-in will begin 15 minutes prior to the beginning of each session, but note that space in each session is limited. Please bring your student card with you.
Thursday, October 25, 2018 1:30 - 3:00pm
Sciences and Technology Library Computer Lab, Machray Hall
Register here: manitobagrad.hobsonsradius.com/ssc/eform/BazN8288k03m0x671wB71.ssc
Description: This session is intended for users who have been using Mendeley for a while and want to explore some of the more advanced features of Mendeley. Topics will include how to merge duplicate records, merging author names, importing RIS files, advanced search options and tagging. Some of the Mendeley Web features like Mendeley Groups and setting up Mendeley Papers to find full text will also be covered.
Tuesday, October 9/18 – 12:00 - 1:00pm
233-65 Dafoe Road (the Centre classroom)
Hosted by the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning
Description: In this workshop, participants will explore how cultural diversity may influence students’ English academic writing in terms of preferences in rhetorical styles, initial tendency to use someone else’s words, and failures in constructing authorial identity. Afterwards, participants will be invited to consider and discuss strategies to support culturally diverse students’ success in academic writing.
Tuesday, October 16/18 – 12:00 - 1:00pm
233-65 Dafoe Road (the Centre classroom)
Hosted by the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning
Description: Despite the best efforts of instructors to prevent academic misconduct, there will be students who cheat, plagiarize, and engage in other dishonest academic behaviours. In this session, we will walk academic staff and administrators through a case of academic misconduct – from preparing allegations to the disciplinary hearing.
Thursday, October 18, 2018 – 12:00 - 1:00pm
Gold Lab; Elizabeth Dafoe Library, Fort Garry Campus
Hosted by the Libraries
Register here: lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3462771
Description: ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an international registry of persistent digital identifiers to connect authors and creators to all their research and scholarly works. The ORCID identifier helps to solve the problems of common names, misattributions, and multiple affiliations over a career. This workshop will help you get registered and start populating your ORCID account. We will also look at two other popular researcher identifiers that work with ORCID: Author Identifier from Scopus and ResearcherID that integrates with Web of Science.
Predatory Publishing (ONLINE) (Researcher event)
Tuesday, October 23 from 12:00 - 1:00pm
Register: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3466149
This online session will focus on predatory publishers and their practices. Participants will be given an overview of the history and nature of predatory journals and publishers, a discussion of the problems associated with predatory practices, and tools to identify and avoid predatory journals. For more information about and a clear and comprehensive definition of predatory publishing check out these University of Manitoba Libraries videos: “What are predatory publishers?” and “Identifying predatory publishers”.
Thursday, October 25th, 2018 – 12:00 - 1:00pm
Computer Lab; Sciences and Technology Library, Fort Garry Campus
Hosted by the Libraries
Register here: lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3462773
Description: There is increasing emphasis put on the researcher to anticipate and/or plan for any funder or publisher requirements about open access publishing early in the research process. Knowing your choices early on in the research process can save you time, stress and money! Starting from open access-related considerations in data management plans, learn what open access choices are available, including journals, repositories and others; make practical and impactful choices for your research; and understand the issues there may be in navigating journal publishing stipulations and open access requirements.
Friday, October 26th, 2018 – 12:00 - 1:00pm
Location – ONLINE
Hosted by the Libraries
Register here: lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3462779
Description: There is increasing emphasis put on the researcher to anticipate and/or plan for any funder or publisher requirements about open access publishing early in the research process. Knowing your choices early on in the research process can save you time, stress and money! Starting from open access-related considerations in data management plans, learn what open access choices are available, including journals, repositories and others; make practical and impactful choices for your research; and understand the issues there may be in navigating journal publishing stipulations and open access requirements.
Thursday, October 25 from 12:00 - 1:00pm
Register: https://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/event/3466150
As part of the Researcher Workshop series, this session will be an introduction to some popular tools for compiling impact factors, citation counts, and h-index scores. Understand more about how research metrics are used and how to evaluate the quality and impact of the scholarship. This workshop will help you get registered and start populating your ORCID account. We will also look at two other popular researcher identifiers that work with ORCID: Author Identifier from Scopus and ResearcherID that integrates with Web of Science.