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<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">To Biology, BCS, and
Postdoctoral Fellows Council,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">Greetings! The Libraries
are offering a great list of instructional sessions for what we call
IAPril. Please route to your students and labs. Many would
be very useful for students.</font><font face="Arial" size="-1"> We
also have a page for the series:</font> <a
href="http://libraries.mit.edu/science/iapril2007.html"><font
face="Arial"
size="-1">http://libraries.mit.edu/science/iapril2007.html</font></a></div
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">We do not take reservations
for these sessions. There is space for 20 people in each
session, so please arrive early!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">Thank you,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">Louisa Rogers</font></div>
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color="#0000FF">_________________________</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#0000FF">Louisa Worthington
Rogers</font><font color="#0000FF"><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Biology, Medicine & Neurosciences
Librarian</font></font><font color="#0000FF"><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">M.I.T. Science Library
14S-134</font></font><font color="#0000FF"><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Cambridge, MA 02139</font></font><font
color="#0000FF"><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">elworthi@mit.edu</font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>IAPril Information
Workshops</b></font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Learn how to find and use
information more effectively in these hands-on workshops.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>WHERE:</b> 14N-132 (Digital
Instruction Resource Center - DIRC)</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>WHEN:</b> In April, every
Wednesday in April at 5, and every Friday in April, 12pm
(noon)</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Wed., 4/4 @ 5-6:00:
RefWorks Basics</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">RefWorks is a web-based resource
designed to help you to organize references and create a bibliography.
RefWorks allows you to search, retrieve relevant citations, and build
your bibliography. It allows users to create individual or group
accounts, and makes it easy to write papers, or post your results to
web pages.<br>
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This session will be a hands-on practicum. Attendees will create a
personal web account and create a database of cited literature by
importing references from resources such as Barton, Web of Science,
PubMed and other sources of published literature. You will learn how
to organize your references, and to generate manuscripts and
bibliographies.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Fri., 4/6 @ 12-2:
Bioinformatics for Beginners</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">This class is a basic introduction
to NCBI bioinformatics resources (</font><a
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/"><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/</font></a><font
face="Arial" size="-1">). It covers the available databases,
details of sequence records, and basic BLAST
searching. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Wed., 4/11 @ 5-6: EndNote
Basics</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">EndNote is a "personal
bibliographic software" package which allows you to create and
manage a database of bibliographic references. Your database can be
used to automatically generate in-text citations and bibliographies in
your manuscripts. It can also help you organize and manage your PDF
files. This session will be a hands-on practicum. Attendees will
create a personal database of cited literature by importing references
from resources such as Barton, Web of Science, PubMed and other
sources of published literature. You will learn how to search and
manipulate databases, and to generate a manuscript and
bibliography</font>.</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Fri., 4/13 @ 12-1: Patent
Searching Fundamentals</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">While you won't come out of this
session qualified to be a patent attorney, you will be able to
successfully find patent references from all over the world and know
how to obtain patent text and diagrams. The session will be a hands-on
practicum which will help de-mystify the patent literature and expose
attendees to key resources for finding patent literature. Using patent
literature is important for understanding competitive technologies and
keeping abreast of current product innovations.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Wed., 4/18 @ 5-6: Flavors of
Citation Searching</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Have you ever used Web of Science to
do find citations? Have you used Google Scholar? Ever used
citation links in journal articles? This session will explore
the different ways you can use the citation searching method for
identifying literature on a subject to benefit of your research.
The concept of citation searching has been around for over 50 years,
but it has evolved with technology. Several examples will be
given, and we would enjoy hearing about your own techniques.
Food and drink will be provided.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Fri., 4/20 @ 12-1: Copyright and
Scholarly Publication: Retaining Rights & Increasing the Impact of
Research</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Can you use and re-use your own work
for future writing and teaching? Or is it locked tight behind a
vault of copyright restrictions? This session will help you find
the keys to fully realize the potential of your own work for yourself
and the world. It will provide a very brief summary of copyright law
and how it affects your work, and an overview of actions you can take
to improve the impact and reach of your research - including why
retaining rights to your work matters, and how you can take advantage
such rights to increase citation and readership. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Wed., 4/25 @ 5-6:30: Library
toolbars, extensions and web apps: little tools with big
impact</b><br>
Tired of hopping between Google Scholar, Amazon, and library catalogs
and databases? Can't find that great article you meant to read later?
Need better ways of sharing scholarly resources within your group?<br>
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Come hear about some new web tools that may help you work more
efficiently. Learn to organize and share your references, catalog your
personal book collections online, and search seamlessly between
library resources and other web sites.<br>
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We will demo: LibraryThing, del.icio.us, CiteULike, library-relevant
Firefox extensions, and more.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Fri., 4/27 @ 12-1: Company
Research for Engineers and Scientists: Know your Prospective Employer
or Partner</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">You may be a skilled investigator in
the area of Science or Engineering, but what do you know about company
research? This session will introduce you to library-supported
databases about companies and industries. We will also use examples
and hands-on exercises to demonstrate strategies for learning about
industry trends and prospective employers or partners.</font></div>
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