Cambridge Science Festival is an annual event launched in 2007 by MIT Museum that includes various STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) related activities. During this event, in collaboration with Bunker Hill Community College, ReFigure team hosted a hands-on workshop on how to read, understand and save scientific papers.
The presentation started with a very important topic – where and how to search for trustworthy Open Access scientific papers; which websites and tools to use. Participants were given time to find and explore the tools using their laptops or computers generously provided by Bunker Hill Community College. Since journal papers can be confusing for college students, speaker Girija Goyal also discussed the anatomy of a technical article and strategies for successful and goal-oriented reading of scientific literature.
But how do you keep all the papers in one place in the organized manner? Different tools that help to solve this problem were presented including commonly used reference managers. A ReFigure demo was given because it helps to arrange the technical articles by saving key images from papers. Having looked at image helps to recall other information from the paper since most of us are visual learners. Participantsgot a chance to download the ReFigure Extension, work with it and ask questions. That Sunday morning was well spent!
