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Library Tutorials & Workshops

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This list of tutorials from Mason Libraries will help you develop essential research skills to seek diverse voices, evaluate research, and more.
How do you select a topic and research question? (video, 5:47)
Working on your topic? Use this tutorial to help you focus your topic and develop your research question.
What are the characteristics of a good research question? (video, 3:25)
What is a research question?
This brief tutorial can help you with developing your research question.

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Library Workshops & Events

Tutorials about Patents

Idea or Invention? (video, 4:26)

Explains the differences between an idea and an invention. (Inventor's Quick Tips)

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How to Search for Patents (video, 7:25)

This tutorial provides an introduction to using the patent classifications systems to improve your search. Focuses on the espacenet.org search and the Cooperative Patent Classification system. By U. Central Florida.

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How to conduct a Preliminary U.S.Patent Search: A Step-by-Step Strategy (video)
Learn more about searching the USPTO resources. Interactive tutorial.

LinkedIn Learning Course

Understanding Patents: Deeper Dive

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Course Description

"Want to patent your invention or technology—or avoid infringing on someone else's? Learn the defining characteristics of successful patents, including what is and is not patentable and the types of patents available. Lawyer Dana Robinson shows how to distinguish between good ideas that can be patented as well as good ideas that don't meet the strict requirements of patent law. He also outlines the process and timeline of the patent application process and explains how businesses can avoid infringing on existing patents with a simple search." from LinkedIn Learning

Note: When you finish the course, be sure to post your certificate on your LinkedIn Profile.

Academic Support at Mason

George Mason University provides a number of academic support services free of charge.

Academic Skills Workshops
The academic skills workshops can help you improve your academic performance and develop your study skills. Workshops include: Exam Strategies, Critical Thinking, Reading Strategies, Note-taking, and Memory Strategies.
The Writing Center: Tutoring
The Writing Center offers face-to-face, video, and email tutoring, as well as ESL Writing Support.
Academic Coaching Program
The Academic Coaching Program helps students adjust to higher education. Peer Academic Coaches meet with students to develop study plans, discuss time management, goal setting, reading strategies, and more.
Digital Scholarship Center
The Digital Scholarship Center helps you find, access, and use statistical, geospatial and qualitative data as well as digital humanities, as well as relevant software. They instruct and consult on data discovery, acquisition and use, data management and data management plans, GIS, methodology, and more.