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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 Journal Impact Factors, Who is Citing Whom, and How Often
Keeping Up: Web-Based Tools That Help You Work Smarter RefWorks Basics
Research Made Easy: Discover the Web of Science SciFinder on the Web
Search workshop: Habits of Effective Searchers (St. Paul) Unique Indexes Every Researcher Should Know
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.
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: 28 ********
    
Instructor:Julie Kelly
Time: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:30 AM -- 10:15 AM
Location: Magrath Library Instruction Room - St. Paul
Available Seats: 15 		     
******** Section: 27 ********
    
Instructor:Jody Kempf
Time: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:00 PM -- 2:45 PM
Location: Walter 310
Available Seats: 15 		     
******** Section: 29 ********
    
Instructor:Julie Kelly
Time: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:30 AM -- 10:15 AM
Location: Magrath Library Instruction Room - St. Paul
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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******** Section: 3 ********
    
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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******** Section: 1 ********
    
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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******** Section: 11 ********
    
Instructor:Leslie Delserone
Time: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:30 PM -- 1:45 PM
Location: Walter 310
Available Seats: 15 		     
******** Section: 12 ********
    
Instructor:Jody Kempf
Time: Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:00 AM -- 10:15 AM
Location: Walter 310
Available Seats: 15 		     
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Journal Impact Factors, Who is Citing Whom, and How Often
      
Learn more about 1)impact factors, which is a scheme for rating journals and 2) sources for finding out who has cited an individual journal article, and how many times a given article has been cited. We will explore Journal Citation Reports, Web of Science, Essential Science Indicators, and Google Scholar.
      
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******** Section: 6 ********
    
Instructor:Julie Kelly
Time: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 9:00 AM -- 10:00 AM
Location: Magrath Library Instruction Room - St. Paul
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 		     
******** Section: 72 ********
    
Instructor:Julie Kelly
Time: Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:00 AM -- 10:15 AM
Location: Magrath Library Instruction Room - St. Paul
Available Seats: 15 		     
******** Section: 73 ********
    
Instructor:Julie Kelly
Time: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:00 AM -- 10:15 AM
Location: Magrath Library Instruction Room - St. Paul
Available Seats: 15 		     
******** Section: 74 ********
    
Instructor:Julie Kelly
Time: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:00 AM -- 10:15 AM
Location: Magrath Library Instruction Room - St. Paul
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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Search workshop: Habits of Effective Searchers (St. Paul)
      
Learn tips to help you focus your searches in the journal indexes and on the Web. Spend less time and retrieve better results!

The handout for the class is at http://courses.lib.umn.edu/page.phtml?page_id=462
      
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******** Section: 8 ********
    
Instructor:Julie Kelly
Time: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:00 AM -- 10:00 AM
Location: Magrath Library Instruction Room - St. Paul
Available Seats: 15 		     
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Unique Indexes Every Researcher Should Know
     
Looking for a dissertation, the number of times an article has been cited, or how to search several indexes at once? Learn about indexes such as Digital Dissertation, the citation indexes, and Libraries OneSearch.
     
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******** Section: 4 ********
    
Instructor:Julie Kelly
Time: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:15 AM -- 11:15 AM
Location: Magrath Library Instruction Room - St. Paul
Available Seats: 15 		     
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If you have comments, general questions, or suggestions for new workshops please email jveldof@tc.umn.edu