05/27/2026
The UCR Library Graduate Research Core Competencies Badge is designed to support graduate students at all stages of their research journey by building practical, transferable skills essential to scholarly work.
Participants develop strategies for:
•Effective citation management using tools like Zotero and Paperpile
•Scholarly communication — ORCID, researcher identity, and open access
•Responsible research data management and open data publishing
•Advanced literature review techniques including systematic and scoping reviews
•Publishing & sharing theses, dissertations, and research articles
•Graduation requirements — formatting, ProQuest, and Graduate Division workflows
Modules can be completed in any order, at your own pace. A badge is awarded upon completing all graded assignments.
Enroll now: https://elearn.ucr.edu/enroll/HJ8D8K