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Create your Poster in PowerPoint	Getting Published: How to Publish Your Science Research Article
Google for Researchers	Grant Funding - Search Tools and Resources
Grant Funding for Graduate Students	Keeping Up: Web-Based Tools That Help You Work Smarter
RefWorks Basics	Research Made Easy: Discover the Web of Science
SciFinder on the Web	Writing in the Health Sciences: The Publication Process

If you have questions about the workshop or need to cancel your registration, please contact the instructor. Additional workshops may be available through the "Workshops" site at the Bio-Medical Library or the "Reference Services" site at the Law Library. More information about library orientation and instruction is also available.

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Create your Poster in PowerPoint
Getting ready to do a poster at an upcoming conference? Learn pointers about using PowerPoint to create the poster as one giant slide, and send it to a large-scale printer.
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******** Section: 27 ********
Instructor:Jody Kempf Time: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:00 PM -- 2:45 PM Location: Walter 310 Available Seats: 15
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Getting Published: How to Publish Your Science Research Article
This workshop, intended for graduate students and newer faculty in the sciences, will help you identify appropriate journals to which to submit your article and discuss how to manage your rights when signing a contract with a publisher. Join your colleagues to share your ideas and discuss the issues you face as an emerging academic author.
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Instructor:Kris Fowler Time: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:00 PM -- 3:00 PM Location: Walter 310 Available Seats: 15
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Google for Researchers
Explore the "more" tab on Google. Learn about the range of free tools that Google offers that can enhance collaboration and research. We'll look at Google Docs, Reader, Google Scholar and more.
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Instructor:Lisa Johnston Time: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 1:00 PM -- 2:00 PM Location: Walter 310 Available Seats: 15
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Grant Funding - Search Tools and Resources
Learn how to use IRIS, SPIN, and Community of Science and the Foundation Directory to search for grant opportunities. Setting up e-mail updates on specific subjects will also be covered, as well as how to find internal U of M funding sources. Resources for the course are listed on the Web site of the Office of the VP for Research, http://www.research.umn.edu/opportunities/
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******** Section: 31 ********
Instructor:Julie Kelly Time: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:00 PM -- 4:15 PM Location: Walter 310 Available Seats: 14
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Grant Funding for Graduate Students
Find out more about funding opportunities available to graduate students. Learn how to use IRIS, SPIN, and Community of Science and the Foundation Directory to search for grant opportunities. Setting up e-mail updates on specific subjects will also be covered, as well as how to find internal U of M funding sources. Resources for the course are listed on the Web site of the Office of the VP for Research, http://www.research.umn.edu/opportunities/
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Instructor:Leslie Delserone Time: Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:00 PM -- 3:30 PM Location: Walter 310 Available Seats: 10
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Instructor:Leslie Delserone Time: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:30 PM -- 1:45 PM Location: Walter 310 Available Seats: 15
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Instructor:Jody Kempf Time: Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:00 AM -- 10:15 AM Location: Walter 310 Available Seats: 15
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Keeping Up: Web-Based Tools That Help You Work Smarter
This workshop will introduce you to web-based tools like tagging, RSS feeds and library databases that can help you more efficiently keep up with your fields of interest.
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******** Section: 11 ********
Instructor:Jody Kempf Time: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 1:00 PM -- 2:00 PM Location: Walter 310 Available Seats: 15
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RefWorks Basics
Learn the basics of using RefWorks, the Web-based citation manager that is available to all U of M Faculty, students and staff. Adding references to RefWorks will be covered, as well as exporting them to Word, and selecting a style (MLA, APA, etc) for your bibliography. See http://www.lib.umn.edu/refworks/ for more details about RefWorks.
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******** Section: 71 ********
Instructor:Jody Kempf Time: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:00 PM -- 4:00 PM Location: Walter 310 Available Seats: 15
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Research Made Easy: Discover the Web of Science
Unlock doors to countless research articles in the sciences and beyond in one of the most powerful cross-disciplinary citation indexes available: the Web of Science. This introductory workshop is ideal for undergraduates or graduates beginning their research process who are looking for a better way of searching, one that goes beyond simply skimming the surface! Plus, with the unveiling of a new interface, even experienced Web of Science users will learn new tricks that will make their literature research a seamless and continuous process. We will cover search strategies, article retrieval, journal ranking, and exporting citations to Endnote. Subject examples will focus on the sciences, but arts, humanities and social sciences are also covered by this index.
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******** Section: 5 ********
Instructor:Lisa Johnston Time: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 2:00 PM -- 3:00 PM Location: Walter 310 Available Seats: 15
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SciFinder on the Web
Learn about new features and changes as SciFinder Scholar, the research database for chemistry and its related disciplines, moves to the web.
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******** Section: 1 ********
Instructor:Meghan Lafferty Time: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:00 PM -- 3:30 PM Location: Walter 310 Available Seats: 15
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Writing in the Health Sciences: The Publication Process
You've formulated the Question to be researched, completed the literature review, and determined authorship, the format and completed the research- now what? This session covers choosing a journal for submission, preparing the manuscript, the editorial review process and authors' rights.
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Instructor:Katherine Chew Time: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:00 PM -- 2:30 PM Location: AHC Learning Commons, 535/545 Diehl Hall Available Seats: 7
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If you have comments, general questions, or suggestions for new workshops please email jveldof@tc.umn.edu

 

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