The University Library’s guided tours and courses are offered regularly at both City Center and Vaihingen location, especially at the beginning of the semester, however. The number of participants per course is restricted for lack of space, so please register in time via the online registration.
If required, further events and dates can be offered – for groups, seminars, tutorials, or new employees, for example.
If you are interested or have any questions, please contact Michaela Sturm for the City Center location or Ute Dittmar for the Vaihingen location. For general questions regarding the course offerings and their coordination, please contact Hannah Kempe.
Are you new to the University of Stuttgart - as a student or employee - and would like to use the University Library? Would you like to use the University Library as an external user, secondary school student, employee of a company, or out of personal interest?
Then you may have the following questions: How do I use the catalog of the University of Stuttgart library system? Where are the books and journals I need located? How do I borrow books? How do I use the services of the University Library on the Internet? You will find answers to these and many more questions at this event.
Duration approx. 60 minutes.
This course is offered as a web seminar.
You will receive an invitation to the online course a few days before the event date.
This event is aimed at everyone interested who has no previous knowledge of Zotero.
In this course, you will learn about the most important features of the reference management system Zotero: You will learn how to collect and organize references and easily incorporate them into your text.
The free open-source tool can be used on Windows, macOS or Linux.
Course content:
Duration: approx. 90 minutes.
Please install Zotero in advance: https://www.zotero.org/download/
You will be needing Zotero, a browser connector, and the Word/LibreOffice plugin.
The course is offered as a web seminar.
You will receive the invitation to the online course a few days before the event date.
This online seminar is part of a virtual event series of the TU9 Libraries.
Whether it's well-curated workflows, well-crafted software or well-organized research data – these winning ways of working are not just worthwhile, but vital for ensuring your research is traceable, trustworthy and truly reproducible.
Content:
Various services and facilities at the University of Stuttgart support the secure storage, traceable documentation and findable and reusable publication of data and software.
After a short general introduction to research data management and a presentation of the services at the University of Stuttgart, we will create data sets in the DaRUS data repository in a hands-on session and lay the foundations for our own data management plan.
Please bring your own laptop.
Provider: Competence Center for Research Data (FoKUS)
Speaker: Dr. Dorothea Iglezakis
Target group: PostDocs / Doctoral Candidates…
Date / Seminar times /Venue:
Contact: Dr. Dorothea Iglezakis
All further courses will be held in German only.
Target audience: Students, Researchers, Scientific staff
Dates:
| 22.02.2027 | 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. |
| 23.03.2027 | 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
Registration here.
Citavi is a multi-purpose reference management software tool which provides users with a range of features for arranging and recording references. The University Library provides the RWTH Aachen University community (students and staff) with free access to Citavi for Windows, Citavi Web and Citavi for DBServer through a university site license. This course offers you an introduction to using Citavi for Windows. You will get an overview of the following functions:
Installation of Citavi for Windows and accessing the campus license
Creating a project
Adding references
Organizing knowledge items
Citavi Word add-in
You know the basic functions of the reference management program. You can import and organize literature and prepare it for use in publications.
Target audience: Students, doctoral candidates
Dates:
| 08.12.2026 | 10 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. |
| 24.02.2027 | 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
The link to access the Zoom-Meeting will be send to you via email about 1 to 3 days before the event.
Reference management programs are helpful tools for managing references as well as for the automatic creation of bibliographies. With EndNote you can save and manage references and process them in text processing programs (Word). EndNote also supports direct searches in bibliographic databases and offers citation and format templates for publications in scientific journals. Training contents in detail:
Installing and licensing EndNote
Creating libraries
Recording titles
EndNote Word-Addin
Target audience: Students, Researchers
Participation requirements: internet connection; the online course will be held via Zoom
Dates:
| 16.12.2026 | 2 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. |
| 15.02.2027 | 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. |
Details on requirements and registration options here.
To comply with good scientific practice (GSP), research data and all associated information that allows the traceability and reproducibility of research should be securely archived for at least 10 years. In addition, many German research funding institutions and European funding programs now require mandatory information on reuse of the data after completion of the project (subsequent use and data publication).
Consequently, this talk offers an introduction to the topics of archiving and publishing research data. You will learn what archiving actually means and when data archiving makes sense within your own research practice. You will be shown how data sets can be prepared for archiving and publication and where they can be archived or published.
At the heart of good management is a plan. Just as research proposals outline the scope and goals of research projects, data management plans (DMP) specify the handling of research data during and after a research project.
In a DMP, researchers document how data is collected, managed, stored, retained and published throughout the lifecycle of a given research project.
Creating DMPs (according to the specifications of funders) at the beginning of the project helps to prepare for the technical requirements during the active research phase and to determine the necessary resources (budget) for the upcoming data challenges.
During this training session, interactive examples and DMP tools demonstrate how a DMP can present an anchor for you research data management.
Lecturer: Dr. Kerstin Wedlich-Zachodin (KIT-Bibliothek)
Target audience: Scientific staff, Researchers
Date: 12.02.2027 11 a.m. - 12 a.m.
Registration: Please register here.
Target audience: Students, Researchers
Dates:
| 24.11.2026 | 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. |
| 09.03.2027 | 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. |
Registration here
In this course, we will discuss the importance of fully updated author profiles and critically examining research evaluation metrics. Together, we will question common bibliometric indicators to gain a deeper understanding of your own research impact. Take competent steps to increase the visibility of your research!
Topics
Date: 04.02.2027 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Registration here.
Recently, there has been growing debate about responsible research publishing and the need to look beyond large commercial publishing houses with monopolistic tendencies. But what does this mean for researchers? What alternative publishing options are available to them? And what are the benefits and challenges researchers may face when choosing an alternative path?
In this online event, I will briefly explore these questions and open the floor for further discussion.
Target audience: Researchers, Scientific Staff
Lecturers: Dr. Mamta Dwivedi (KIT-Bibliothek)
Date: 19.11.2026 2 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Registration here.
The link for the meeting will be provided closer to the date.
Topics:
Target audience: Students, Researchers, Scientific staff
Date: 16.02.2027 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Registration here.
