Training courses
The Social Sciences libraries organise periodic courses on the services of the University Library System, the use of information resources (catalogues, databases, web resources, etc.), bibliographic research, Open Science and much more.
The workshops are aimed at institutional users and guest users with an SBA card.
Basic courses
Library 101
A training for international social science students to learn how to do effective bibliographic research for the final thesis.
1. Follow the online Moodle course anytime
2. Enrol in the training in presence - Area of interest: Scienze_Sociali
Next available dates are listed in the news.
Zotero
The University Library System organizes training courses to learn how to use Zotero effectively. Zotero is a free, open-source software for managing bibliographies; importing citations from catalogues, databases and websites; creating and organising bibliographies for theses, books and articles; and inserting and formatting citations in the text of documents.
For more information see the Reference Management page.
The Zotero Calendar include a date, held entirely in English, specifically created for international students, who want to learn how to use this bibliographic management tool.
Courses on request
Customised courses can be organised to meet the special needs of lecturers. Please contact the library.
Online courses on Moodle
Free access tutorials and courses are available on the Moodle platform of the Library System, some with Single Sign On (SSO) authentication and others without.
How to enrol for training courses
Calendar and registration:
- visit the training programme page
- select the study area of interest from the drop-down menu "Area d'interesse" (e.g. PSICOLOGIA, SCIENZE_SOCIALI, etc.)
- identify the course and date of interest in the calendar
- click, in the ‘Enrolment’ column, on the button corresponding to the course you wish to enrol in
- follow the instructions that will appear in the enrolment box
- confirm your enrolment