Faculty Research and Writing Workshops
Upcoming
Two Library Research Workshops with the Research Librarians Team
Wednesday, May 7, Class of ’51 Reading Room, Library. Lunch will be served. You may attend one or both sessions.
Session 1: 10 a.m.–noon. “Building and Maintaining Your Author Profiles and Keeping Current with Scholarship: Faculty Workshop”
Learn to establish and optimize your ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), and claim and edit your scholarly profiles in Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus. Claiming and maintaining your profiles ensures that your work is correctly represented and attributed to you, allows you to keep up to date with works in your field, and notifies you when authors cite your work or works that you’re citing in your research. Faculty from all disciplines and career stages are welcome to attend. Led by Gretchen Lieb, “History and Multidisciplinary Librarian”, Melanie Maksin, Head of Academic Engagement, And Elizabeth Salmon, Social Science Librarian. Cosponsored by the Director of Faculty Research. If you cannot attend the workshop, please contact researchhelp@vassar.edu to schedule a one-on-one consultation.
Session 2: 1 p.m.–3 p.m. “Open Access Publishing: Faculty Workshop” with Deb Bucher and Andy Ashton.
Learn about the landscape for open access (OA) publishing support at Vassar, including our read-and-publish agreements with PLoS (Public Library of Science), Cambridge, and Oxford. Whether you’ve published an OA article previously, or are just beginning to think about how to identify and evaluate OA publications and submit your work, this session will help you think through what options might be available in your field, as well as considerations for copyright. Faculty from all disciplines and career stages are welcome to attend. Led by Debra Bucher, Head of Collections and Discovery, and Andrew Ashton, Director of the Libraries. Cosponsored by the Director of Faculty Research. If you cannot attend the workshop, please contact researchhelp@vassar.edu to schedule a one-on-one consultation.
Past Workshops
February 28, 2025. Humanities Grants Workshop: Members of the Vassar Grants Team held presentations about Internal and External Humanities Grants opportunities for faculty, followed by Q & A and workshopping.
December 13, 2024. A Book Proposal Workshop with Beth Bouloukos, Director of Amherst College Press, followed by one-on-one consultations.
September 13, 2024. Building and Maintaining Your Scholarly Profile in Web of Science and Scopus. This workshop focused on learning to establish and optimize your ORCHID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), and claim and edit your scholarly profiles in Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus.
May 7, 2024. A Book Proposal Workshop with Beth Bouloukos, Amherst College Press. This workshop focused on the strategies of academic book proposal writing, and Beth offered general information useful to writers at all stages of the process. Beth also offered one-on-one sessions to discuss a
small number of completed proposal drafts.
March 1, 2024. First Book Workshop with Beth Bouloukos, director of Amherst College Press. A workshop designed for first-book writers at any stage of the process, this workshop is open to all in the Vassar community (in person).
September 29, 2023. Writing Beyond the Academy: Securing an Agent and a Commercial Book Deal. A Writing Workshop with John Ghazvinian, founder of Scholars to Storytellers (in person).
May 23, 2023. Writing Workshop to be offered by Q.M. Zhang, author of Accomplice to Memory (Kaya Press, 2017). Q.M. Zhang is a writer, teacher, editor, and the founder of MemoryWorks, a creative research and writing practice for individuals and communities who are trying to trace their past and reclaim histories in the face of historical omissions and intergenerational silences.
December 9, 2022. Basics of Academic Publishing: Conceptualizing the Book, Crafting a Proposal, and Beyond: A Workshop with Dawn Durante, UNC Press (virtual).