We invite all our students and academic staff to the 2nd Series of Library User Trainings, organized to help you make the most effective use of our information resources.
Session 1: Transformative Agreements
Topics to be covered: What is a transformative agreement? The benefits and challenges, databases covered by the agreement, and details of the agreements.
Date/Time: March 6, 2026, 14:40 (Duration: 45–60 minutes)
Venue: Library Meeting Room (Main Building Ground Floor)
Format: Face-to-face
Instructor: Üstün Berk Sezgin – Lecturer, METU Library
Target Audience: Graduate Students and Academic Staff Members
Session 2: BSI Knowledge
Topics to be covered: Finding standards that meet your needs, viewing and printing relevant standards, organizing and tracking updates to standards.
Date/Time: March 10, 2026, 14:40 (Duration: 60 minutes)
Format: Webinar
Instructor: Owen Gardiner – BSI Knowledge Product Training Manager
Language of Instruction: English
Target Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students, Academic Staff Members
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IS9LCkHsQ9uIDrEMEoqFyA
Session 3: Effective Use of Information Resources
Topics to be covered: Selecting a research topic, choosing keywords, identifying databases and other information resources, determining where and how to search and use information resources, avoiding plagiarism, use of artificial intelligence, research ethics, lending rules, library account, OPAC search, METUnique search, and remote access.
Date/Time: March 24, 2026, 14:40 (Duration: 90 minutes)
Venue: Library Meeting Room (Main Building Ground Floor)
Format: Face-to-face
Instructor: Hale Uysal – Research Assistant, METU Library
Target Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students, Academic Staff Members
Session 4: Avoiding Plagiarism – Turnitin
Topics to be covered: Evaluation of academic publications, introduction to and use of the plagiarism prevention tool.
Date/Time: March 25, 2026, 14:40 (Duration: 90 minutes)
Format: Webinar
Instructor: Burcu Özge Razı – Turnitin
Target Audience: Academic Staff Members
Registration Link: https://turnitin.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sRYvyzjQSNWEBVHBfRSIDQ
Session 5: Academic Performance with Web of Science Data – Middle East Technical University
Topics to be covered: Creating a researcher profile, benchmarking research performance, defining your research strategy, tracking emerging scientific trends and identifying the most influential research projects, accessing Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and Quartile data, selecting journals for your research outputs, and exploring key data (Authors, Institutions, Countries, Research Areas, Journals, Funders).
Date/Time: March 30, 2026, 14:40 (Duration: 80 minutes)
Format: Webinar
Instructor: Derya Soğuksu – Clarivate
Target Audience: Graduate Students and Academic Staff Members
Registration Link: https://clarivatesupport.webex.com/weblink/register/r58ae87ad9c1059a559e76402bae2673d
Session 6: Open Science Culture and Open Access Publishing Strategies
Topics to be covered: Open Science culture and Open Access publishing strategies.
Date/Time: April 7, 2026, 14:40 (Duration: 45–60 minutes)
Venue: Library Meeting Room (Main Building Ground Floor)
Format: Face-to-face
Instructor: Barina Utkan – Branch Manager, METU Library
Target Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students, Academic Staff Members
Session 7: Scopus Training
Topics to be covered: Scopus literature coverage and effective search techniques, selecting appropriate journals for your publications (Q1 & Q2 analysis, etc.), merging and correcting Scopus author profiles.
Date/Time: April 8, 2026, 14:45 (Duration: 60 minutes)
Format: Webinar
Instructor: Saide Sak – Elsevier
Target Audience: Graduate Students and Academic Staff Members
Registration Link: https://elsevier.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K4e9JeQxSK2goQ8zizWTwg
Session 8: Reference Management Tools – Mendeley
Topics to be covered: Building your reference library, alternative methods for adding sources, easy citation and bibliography creation in different styles.
Date/Time: April 15, 2026, 14:45 (Duration: 60 minutes)
Format: Webinar
Instructor: Saide Sak – Elsevier
Target Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students, Academic Staff Members
Registration Link: https://elsevier.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O-gZXDxVT3-glC8whFIttw
Session 9: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Research
Topics to be covered: Publisher policies and requirements regarding AI, citing generative AI outputs, AI detection software, legal regulations and ethics related to AI, AI literacy, prompt engineering, and selected AI tools used in academic research.
Date/Time: April 17, 2026, 14:40 (Duration: 60 minutes)
Venue: Library Meeting Room (Main Building Ground Floor)
Format: Face-to-face
Instructor: Nihal Selçuk Yüce – Lecturer, METU Library
Target Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students, Academic Staff Members