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In 2026, the United States will mark the 250^th anniversary of its founding. In anticipation of this event, the University of Georgia Press has developed the Georgia Open History Library: From Colony to Statehood in the New Union. This resource provides free digital access to 45 out-of-print volumes focused on Georgia from the colony’s founding through the American Revolution.  

RefWorks, a Citation Management Software available at no cost to UGA students, faculty, and staff. Keeping track of citations for literature reviews, prospectuses, dissertations/theses, and other projects is essential for all graduate students. RefWorks helps you do this with as little pain as possible!

Asheesh Kapur Siddique, assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, is a historian of early America and the early modern Atlantic world and is currently completing a book about knowledge and governance in the early modern British empire.

How to set up search alerts and saved searches for your research. Get email alerts when new research is published, as well as keep track of mentions of your research.

RefWorks, a Citation Management Software available at no cost to UGA students, faculty, and staff. Keeping track of citations for literature reviews, prospectuses, dissertations/theses, and other projects is essential for all graduate students. RefWorks helps you do this with as little pain as possible!

This will be an introduction to EndNote for PCs. Class includes installation troubleshooting, enabling useful Endnote tools, downloading records from databases into your own Endnote library, and using it to format your citations in Word.

Introduction to the UGA Libraries provided app “Browzine,” a resource which helps students keep track of new issues of specific journals from their field.

What can you do with all that data? Learn about different resources and programs for data visualization including Excel, Tableau public, and R. No programming experience necessary.

Librarian and expert Googler shares her tips on how to use both Google Scholar and Google as advanced research tools. Connect to UGA Library subscriptions, create alerts, efficiently find reports and conference proceedings, and much more.

This session will be an introduction and demonstration of Pivot, a grant-finding aid and academic networking tool.