Managing Research Files will help you improve the organization of your research, scholarly, and class documents to make finding and sharing your work easier.

By the end of this workshop, you should understand the better practices for:

• file naming
• file and directory organization
• keeping track of information about your files and project (metadata)
• the Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How of keeping your files safe with backups.

This workshop is for complete beginners and does not require a computer; we will go over concepts in group discussions.

For any questions, please contact the instructor at laufers@ou.edu. 

Target audience

• Disciplines: All
• Classifications: undergraduate students, graduate students, post-docs, staff, faculty
• Focus: research, student success, productivity

Requirements

• Prerequisites: none
• Software requirements: Zoom
• Registration is: required.
• We will hold this workshop at any registration count.

Accessibility

• Materials
  • The curriculum is freely available online at https://osf.io/ukq6b/overview.
  • OU Libraries does not record virtual or hybrid workshops except in the case of disability accommodation requests.
• Format
  • This workshop will be offered online via Zoom. 
• Scheduling
  • This workshop is typically offered once per year.
  • This workshop can also be scheduled on request. 
  • We have [no scheduled breaks during this one-hour workshop
• Captioning
  • Automatic captioning will be provided via Zoom
• For additional accommodations on the basis of disability, please contact the workshop instructor laufers@ou.edu.