Life Sciences Library
Fall 2008 Seminar Series
Life Sciences Library - Main Floor Instructional Area
All sessions 12 – 1 p. m.
The Library is constantly changing – have you noticed? We have re-vamped our website for better searching, added new databases and more full text e-journals for greater access, added e-books for more anytime/anywhere access, and continue to improve services such as interlibrary loan. Come find out about all the things you never knew we had that could make your research and teaching easier and more efficient.
September 17 Pubmed
Are you searching Pubmed as effectively and efficiently as you can? Learn how to use Pubmed to its full potential by selecting the best terms, saving searches, having searches automatically run with results emailed to you weekly, downloading citations into a file for use with EndNote and other citation managers, and much more.
September 24 Web of Science
Web of Science is one of the core databases for science researchers. Come learn how to take advantage of all the features of Web of Science, such as citation searching, using the free EndNote web, accessing journal rankings and impact factors, and much more to improve the effectiveness of your searching.
October 1 Archiving and Sharing Research Data
Are we living in the Digital Dark Ages? The lack of best practices and a framework for organizing, preserving, and publishing research data is resulting in valuable datasets becoming lost or discarded. Some funding agencies are beginning to require that researchers include a data management plan in their grant proposals. At many institutions, including Purdue, librarians are exploring their role in data curation. Why should you consider publishing your research data in a repository, and what are some issues and challenges to consider? Along with the topic of data curation, we will discuss Open Access using materials from SPARC and The Right to Research.
October 8 Bioinformatics Research
Overview of resources available through Purdue Libraries, NCBI, and other institutions.
October 22 Why Access to Your Research Publications Matters and
How Purdue Can Help
In the modern information environment, scholars often have the capability to distribute their findings much more broadly than they realize, enhancing visibility of their research and increasing citations to their publications. Mark Newton, the Digital Collections Librarian at Purdue University Libraries, will introduce a new library service, Purdue e-Pubs, which has significant implications for the distribution of and long-term access to research findings. Topics:
○ What is e-Pubs , and why did the Libraries create it?
○ What is open access?
○ What are the implications of open access to research in e-Pubs?
○ What are the direct benefits to researchers of using e-Pubs to disseminate findings, and how else might the use of e-Pubs affect one's scholarly career?
○ Who's already using e-Pubs?
○ How does e-Pubs work, and how easy is it to participate?
Last update: August 18, 2008