MIT Libraries IAP: Various Offerings
Janet Fischer
jfischer at MIT.EDU
Wed Jan 7 09:19:15 EST 2004
MIT Libraries: IAP offerings
Preparing for publication, Copyright, and Patent Seminars
(Tips and tools to help you present your research effectively)
Document Scanning 101: Creating E-Versions from Paper
Keith Glavash, Christine Quirion
Thu Jan 15, 10:30-11:30am, 2-105
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up. Single session event.
Are you running out of space in your paper filing cabinets? No more
room for technical reports, working papers, preprints, lab notebooks,
whatever? Why not convert your paper files to a digital format, such
as PDF? This workshop will include information on document
preparation, scanning options, file formats, full-text searching and
cost estimates. We'll also discuss ways to organize and preserve your
collections for long term. If you like, bring along a sample of what
you've got.
Contact: Keith Glavash, x3-5667,
<mailto:kglavash at mit.edu%C2%A0>kglavash at mit.edu
Intellectual Property at MIT: The Patent Process
Carol Robinson, Tracy Gabridge
Thu Jan 15, 3-4:30pm, 56-114
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up. Single session event.
Come and hear patent attorney Sam Pasternak of Choate, Hall and
Stewart, and Jack Turner from the MIT Technology Licensing Office
discuss the ins and outs of obtaining patents. This popular session
covers a bit of patent history and a lot about the current practice,
processes, and issues surrounding obtaining a patent. A portion of
the session is devoted to your questions and answers. If you think
you will ever invent something, you need to be here.
Contact: Carol Robinson, x3-7749,
<mailto:csrobins at mit.edu%C2%A0>csrobins at mit.edu
Endnote: Getting Started
Howard Silver
Thu Jan 15, 3-4:30pm, 14N-132
Tue Jan 20, 2-3:30pm, 14N-132
Wed Jan 21, 5-6:30pm, 14N-132
Enrollment limited to 20 participants: advance sign up required.
Signup by: 21-Jan-2004 (see contact below).
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session.
Reduce the time you spend generating manuscripts, and increase the
accuracy and quality of your citations and bibliographies. Improve
you productivity by becoming better at gathering and managing your
research literature. Endnote is software that helps you to create and
manage databases of bibliographic references. You can use these
databases to cite references and generate bibliographies in your
manuscripts. This session will be a hands-on practicum in which
participants will create their own database, import references, and
generate a manuscript.
Contact: Howard Silver, x3-9319, <mailto:hsilver at mit.edu%C2%A0>hsilver at mit.edu
Intellectual Property at MIT: Patent Searching Fundamentals
Carol Robinson, Tracy Gabridge
Thu Jan 22, 03-04:30pm, 56-114
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up. Single session event.
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. Using patent literature is important for understanding
competitive technologies, keeping abreast of current product
innovations and more!
Contact: Carol Robinson, x3-7749,
<mailto:csrobins at mit.edu%C2%A0>csrobins at mit.edu
DSpace Digital Repository
Margret G. Branschofsky
Tue Jan 27, 02-03:30pm, 14N-132
Wed Jan 28, 10-11:30am, 14N-132
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up. Repeating event.
Participants welcome at any session.
Faculty, Departments, Labs, Centers - find out how we can help you
manage your digital files. The MIT Libraries' DSpace system is a
dynamic repository for the digital intellectual output of MIT. It
collects, preserves, indexes and distributes digital files in a
variety of formats. See a demonstration of the system.
Web: <http://dspace.mit.edu/about>http://dspace.mit.edu/about
Contact: Margret Branschofsky, x3-1293,
<mailto:margretb at mit.edu%C2%A0>margretb at mit.edu
PowerPoint Finishing School
Craig Thomas
Wed Jan 28, 2-3:30 pm, 14N-132
Enrollment limited to 10 participants: advance sign up required
Signup by: 27-Jan-2004 (see contact below).
Sure, most of us can hammer out a few slides in PowerPoint. But some
presentations look crisp and professional, while others look like
amateur hour. What makes some look -- and work -- better than
others? This session offers simple tips and guidelines for adding
professional polish to your presentations. The first half will
consist of demos in the areas of text management, slide layout,
motion and the use of consistent design criteria. In last second
half, we'll workshop participants' presentations. So bring along a
short presentation of your own that needs fine-tuning, and we'll
polish it up. We'll be using PowerPoint 2000. (Note: This session
is not for PowerPoint beginners.)
Contact: Craig Thomas, x8-9776, <mailto:clthomas at mit.edu>clthomas at mit.edu
Intellectual Property at MIT: Copyright Issues and MIT Policy
Carol Robinson, Tracy Gabridge
Thu Jan 29, 3-4:30pm, 56-114
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up. Single session event.
How does copyright law impact MIT policies and you? Ann Hammersla
from MIT's Intellectual Property Office and Ellen Duranceau from the
MIT Libraries will discuss topics germane to the MIT community. Get
answers to questions such as: Who owns the copyright at a university?
Does MIT own copyright of student work? What are the important issues
for licensing electronic materials and content? Who owns the
copyright to course materials? What about software copyright? What
copyright issues should web authors think about for electronic
materials?
Contact: Carol Robinson, x3-7749,
<mailto:csrobins at mit.edu%C2%A0>csrobins at mit.edu
MIT Libraries: IAP Offerings
Chemical Information and Materials Properties Seminars
SciFinder Scholar: Advanced Reaction and Substructure Searching
Erja Kajosalo
Fri Jan 16, 10:30am-12:00pm, 14N-132
Enrollment limited to 20 participants: first come, first served.
Single session event.
Prereq: Basic knowledge of SciFinder Scholar searching.
Are you a synthetic chemist? Do you need very specific type of
chemical property data? Would you just like to improve your chemical
information searching skills using SciFinder Scholar or learn what's
new in SFS 2004? Then this hands-on workshop is for you!
Amy Christuk from Chemical Abstracts Services will teach advanced
reaction and structure searching. She will show how to use functional
group tools, analyze ring skeletons, refine reaction searching, and
do retro-synthetic reaction searching using this comprehensive
database of chemical and related sciences. She will use real life
complex examples she's worked on with her clients teach these
techniques.
Web:
<http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/cheatsheets/sci-finder/index.html>http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/cheatsheets/sci-finder/index.html
Contact: Erja Kajosalo, x3-9795,
<mailto:kajosalo at mit.edu>kajosalo at mit.edu
Open Lab: Finding Chemical Information
Erja Kajosalo, Angie Locknar
Tue Jan 20, 4-6:00pm, 14N-132
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up. Single session event.
Need to find articles on a chemical topic? Want to search for a
certain chemical structure and don't know where to begin? Visit the
MIT Libraries Digital Instruction Resource Center (DIRC) and find the
answers, with the help of librarians trained in finding chemical
information. Drop by any time during Open Lab hours for one-on-one
instruction in SciFinder Scholar, Beilstein, Gmelin, and more.
Contact: Erja Kajosalo, x3-9795, <mailto:kajosalo at mit.edu>kajosalo at mit.edu
What's the Melting Point of H2O?: Finding Materials Properties Information
Angie Locknar, Darcy Duke
Thu Jan 22, 3-4:00pm, 14N-132
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up. Single session event.
You probably know the melting point of H2O is 0 °C (or 32 °F or
273.15 °K). But what would you do if you didn't know? Come learn
about the wide variety of resources you can use to locate property
information.
Contact: Angie Locknar, x3-9320, <mailto:locknar at mit.edu>locknar at mit.edu
Introduction to Science of Synthesis
Erja Kajosalo, Alex Williams
Fri Jan 23, 10:30am-12:00pm, 14N-132
Enrollment limited to 20 participants: first come, first served.
Single session event.
Organic chemists! Learn to use "Science of Synthesis" which is an
entirely new electronic edition of the classic Houben-Weyl. Alex
Williams from Thieme Publishers will show you how to find evaluated
synthetic methods from this database using (sub)structure and/or text
searching. This session will allow participants time for hands-on use
of the resource!
Contact: Erja Kajosalo, x3-9795, <mailto:kajosalo at mit.edu>kajosalo at mit.edu
Mixed Bag of Chemical Information Related Resources
Erja Kajosalo
Fri Jan 30, 10:30am-12:00pm, 14N-132
Enrollment limited to 20 participants: first come, first served.
Single session event.
Have you ever used Combined Chemical Dictionary or the CRC Handbook
of Chemistry and Physics online? Do you know about electronic
versions of Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology or Mark
Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology? This hands-on session
will introduce you to several reference tools and useful companions
to the more extensive chemical information tools, like SciFinder
Scholar and Beilstein/Gmelin.
Contact: Erja Kajosalo, x3-9795, <mailto:kajosalo at mit.edu>kajosalo at mit.edu
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