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<div>This Week:</div>
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<div><b>JulyAP 2007 Information Workshops</b>, Sponsored by the
Engineering and Science Libraries (on-going series)</div>
<div>Learn how to find and use information more effectively in these
hands-on workshops.</div>
<div>Fridays from 12 pm, (noon) - 1 pm in 14N-132 (Digital Instruction
Resource Center )</div>
<div>Feel free to bring your lunch; drinks and dessert will be
provided. No advance registration required.</div>
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<div><font color="#0000FF"><b>This Week - July 13</b></font><b>:
Copyright and Scholarly Publication: Retaining Rights & Increasing
the Impact of Research</b></div>
<div>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.</div>
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<div><b>Other:</b></div>
<div>Kendall Square Concert Series take place on Thursdays -
free concerts and a Farmers' Market</div>
<div>Berklee College of Music and Jazz Revelation Records feature live
music in the North Plaza of Kendall Square
(http://www.kendallsquare.org/music.html), noon to 2:00 pm at 300
Athenaeum Street </div>
<div> -<font color="#0000FF"><b> This Week - July 12</b></font>
features Mateo Lugo</div>
<div>and a Farmers Market
(http://www.kendallsquare.org/farm.html),11:00am - 2:30pm at 500
Kendall Street</div>
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<div><b>FUTURE EVENTS:</b></div>
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<div><b>Academic Career Series, Panel #3: Surviving the First Year as
an Assistant Professor </b></div>
<div><b>Wednesday, July 18, 2007</b> 4:00 pm-5:15 pm,
Room 10-250</div>
<div>Panel discussion, followed by Q&A</div>
<div>Panelists for this session include Profs. Joshua Fischman (Tufts
Economics), Penny Beuning (Northeastern Chemistry), Christopher
Capozzola (MIT History) and Tomas Palacios (MIT EECS).</div>
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<div><b>Future JulyAP 2007 Information Workshops</b>:</div>
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<div>12 pm, (noon) - 1 pm in 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource
Center )<br>
<b>7/20 Patent Searching Fundamentals</b><br>
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.</div>
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<b>7/27 Flavors of Citation Searching</b><br>
Have you ever used Web of Science to 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. </div>
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<b>8/3 Bioinformatics for Beginners</b></div>
<div>NCBI's Entrez family of databases is the foundation of
knowledge for molecular level bioscience research. Class attendees
will learn about the organization of key NCBI databases, understand
the database record structure, and work with the BLAST search tool.
The session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent starting point
for people who are new to, or curious about bioinformatics research
tools.</div>
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<b>8/10 Introduction to Company and Industry Research for Engineers
and Scientists</b></div>
<div>You may be a skilled investigator on the topic of science or
engineering, but what do you know about business research? This
session will introduce you to library-supported databases that cover
company and industry information. We will use hands-on exercises to
demonstrate strategies for researching two key components of a
business plan: competitors and industry trends.</div>
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