LIBRARY - IAPril instructional sessions

[Janet Fischer]

To Biology, BCS, and Postdoctoral Fellows Council,

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. We also have a page 
for the series: 
<http://libraries.mit.edu/science/iapril2007.html>http://libraries.mit.edu/science/iapril2007.html

We do not take reservations for these sessions.  There is space for 
20 people in each session, so please arrive early!

Thank you,
Louisa Rogers
_________________________
Louisa Worthington Rogers
Biology, Medicine & Neurosciences Librarian
M.I.T. Science Library 14S-134
Cambridge, MA 02139
elworthi at mit.edu

IAPril Information Workshops

Learn how to find and use information more effectively in these 
hands-on workshops.
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center - DIRC)
WHEN: In April, every Wednesday in April at 5, and every Friday in 
April, 12pm (noon)
Wed., 4/4 @ 5-6:00:  RefWorks Basics
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.

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.

Fri., 4/6 @ 12-2:  Bioinformatics for Beginners
This class is a basic introduction to NCBI bioinformatics resources 
(<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/).  It 
covers the available databases, details of sequence records, and 
basic BLAST searching. 

Wed., 4/11 @ 5-6:  EndNote Basics
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.

Fri., 4/13 @ 12-1: Patent Searching Fundamentals
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.

Wed., 4/18 @ 5-6: Flavors of Citation Searching
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.

Fri., 4/20 @ 12-1: Copyright and Scholarly Publication: Retaining 
Rights & Increasing the Impact of Research
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.  

Wed., 4/25 @ 5-6:30: Library toolbars, extensions and web apps: 
little tools with big impact
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?

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.

We will demo: LibraryThing, del.icio.us, CiteULike, library-relevant 
Firefox extensions, and more.

Fri., 4/27 @ 12-1: Company Research for Engineers and Scientists: 
Know your Prospective Employer or Partner
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.
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