Research Tools: Collaborate
Work together with classmates, faculty, or research partners by sharing files, co-authoring documents, and communicating in real time. These collaboration tools make group projects and remote teamwork easier and more effective.
LSU Sites
LSU Libraries provides LSU students, faculty, and staff with the opportunity to use this space to create your digital identity and express your creativity. You can easily install applications that will allow you to create blogs, media-rich digital scholarship, digital collections, and more.
Type: Collaborative Workspace
Access: Free
Where Can I Access It?: Personal computers and any campus computer lab
Availability: Web-based
Skill Level: Basic
Potential Use Cases: Collaborate on digital projects, publish academic writing, creating digital scholarship
Teams
Microsoft collaboration and communication platform.
Type: Video Conferencing
Access: Free
Where Can I Access It?: Must be installed on personal computer
Availability: Desktop/Web-based
Skill Level: Basic
Potential Use Cases: Team projects, faculty collaboration
Microsoft Planner
| Task planning tool integrated with Microsoft 365 for group collaboration. |
Type: Scheduling
Access: Free
Where Can I Access It?: TigerWare
Availability: Web-based
Skill Level: Basic
Potential Use Cases: Assigning roles, tracking deadlines, visualizing progress in team projects
Zoom
Video conferencing and online meeting software.
Type: Video Conferencing
Access: Free
Where Can I Access It?: Must be installed on personal computer
Availability: Desktop/Web-based
Skill Level: Basic
Potential Use Cases: Online classes, virtual meetings, guest lectures
7-Zip
File archiver with high compression ratio for efficient file storage and transfer.
Type: File Compression
Access: Free
Where Can I Access It?: Must be installed on personal computer
Availability: Desktop
Skill Level: Basic
Potential Use Cases: Compressing large projects or datasets to meet upload limits or prepare for transfer via email or cloud storage.
LSU Resources
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Reserve a Study RoomFind out details about the study spaces offered by LSU Libraries.
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LSU Office of Undergraduate ResearchThe LSU Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) supports student participation in faculty-mentored research and professional-level activities. For students looking to become involved in undergraduate research, we offer assistance in finding a mentor, events to learn more about undergraduate research, and opportunities to talk to research students about their experiences in any major. For students who are currently involved in undergraduate research, we offer funding, workshops, awards, and an annual symposium to present your work.
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LSU Research AmbassadorsThe LSU Research Ambassadors are available to answer your questions, chat about their experiences, and give advice.
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LSU Mentor DatabaseThe LSU Mentor Database is where faculty list their names, research topics, and contact info. Students interested in research should email them directly.
Further Resources
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Collaboration in Higher Education
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ISBN: 9781350334052Publication Date: 2023-05-18Collaboration in Higher Education, an open access book, focuses on the opportunities and challenges created by engaging in collaboration and partnership in higher education. -
Power of Partnership
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ISBN: 9781951414023Publication Date: 2020-01-14The Power of Partnership celebrates the nuance and depth of student-faculty partnerships in higher education and illustrates the many ways that partnership—the equitable collaboration among students, staff, and faculty in support of teaching and learning—has the potential to transform lives and institutions. -
Networking for People Who Hate Networking, Second Edition
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ISBN: 9781523098538Publication Date: 2019-05-21Zack politely examines and then smashes to tiny fragments the "dusty old rules" of standard networking advice. You don't have to become a backslapping extrovert or even learn how to fake it. Incredible as it seems, the very traits that make you hate networking can be harnessed to forge an approach even more effective than traditional techniques. It's a different kind of networking-and it works. -
Team
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ISBN: 9780593652909Publication Date: 2024-05-21A groundbreaking book about how to harness the power of collaboration and work most effectively in groups--coauthored by Getting Things Done's David Allen.
