Our Research Consultation Services
Do you need help finding sources for your research project, do you have questions about how best to organize references, or would you like to learn more about the most important library databases for your discipline? We are happy to help you.
Frankfurt UAS students, faculty, and staff can book a one-on-one research consultation with a librarian. We can provide you with an overview of various research strategies, and we can also help you identify sources related to your research topic. Additionally, we can help get you started working with several AI tools that can support your research. Library research consultations generally take place online over MS Teams. After your research consultation appointment is confirmed, you will receive an email containing the MS Teams appointment access information.
If you have questions about writing a research paper, please contact the Methods and Writing Lab.
Overview of Library Workshop Offerings
Our library instruction course offerings on research, literature citation management, and AI tools help your students to develop skills in the areas of information and AI literacy.
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In consultation with instructors, we offer library workshops that are tailored to the degree program and to the specific course topic. Our pedagogical framework is conceptually guided by the learning objectives in the Digital Literacy Kompetenzmodells and is supplemented by additional points from the DigiCom 2.2 Framework from the European Commission.
Our course offerings support a maximum of 30 participants in our library instruction classroom or online. We offer library workshops on the following topics:
- Searching the library catalog and using the library
- Searching subject-specific library databases
- Using search techniques such as Boolean operators, truncation, phrase search, etc.
- Submitting interlibrary loan requests using the HeBIS portal
- Using literature citation management software programs Citavi and/or Zotero
- Identifying and locating sources using AI tools such as SciSpace, ResearchRabbit, EvidenceHunt, etc.
Online Library Workshops from Other University Libraries
As part of a Hesse-wide cooperation, university and state libraries open a number of their online library workshops to students and/or university faculty and staff from other universities. Click here for a list of the current library workshop offerings.