The Research Rescue workshops are designed to help UT students succeed!
Using SciFinder Web and PubMed Basics
Wednesday June 24th
3:00pm-4:00pm
WEL 2.122 (Welch Convocation Center)
Learn about the new Web version of SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts). This part of the session will cover registering for your personal SciFinder login, features of the Web interface, and using your search results.
Learn PubMed Basics in this overview of the database. The 25-minute session will cover setting up a MyNCBI account, PubMed features, effective search techniques and using your search results.
Finding Funding and Patent Searching
Wednesday July 1st
2:00pm-3:00pm
ACE 2.402
The Finding Funding portion of the session is designed to help explain sources of funding and how to learn about funding opportunities. Special emphasis will be on using the Community of Science for funding updates.
Did you ever want to know what has been previously patented? The patent searching section of this presentation will show you how to begin a patent search by discussing the rules for what can and cannot be patented and why this impacts on searching, basic and advanced techniques for searching patents and ways to avoid “patent searching overload.”
Introduction to EndNote and Zotero and Tips on Counting Citations
Tuesday July 7th
2:00pm-3:00pm
ACE 2.402
Introduction to EndNote and Zotero will provide information about these two popular reference management tools.
Tips on Counting Citations will provide an overview of the Cited Reference Search in Web of Science.
No registration is needed.
Open to all UT staff, faculty and students.
Tags: Counting Citations, EndNote, Funding, Graduate Students, Patents, PubMed, Research Rescue, SciFinder Web, Zotero
June 19th, 2009
The stacks and seating areas of the Mallet Library are currently closed to the public during the Welch Plaza renovation project.
Summer Session Hours
June 4 – August 17 |
| Monday-Friday |
8am-7pm |
| Saturday-Sunday |
Closed |
See Library Hours for current information.
August intersession hours (Aug. 18-25) to be determined. |
- Library materials will be paged from the stacks by library staff upon request. However, some materials may be temporarily inaccessible to staff due to obstructions or safety concerns. Patrons may request paging in advance by calling the Library at 512-495-4600 or via email. Please provide full bibliographic details including the call numbers of items you wish to have retrieved.
- Most public workstations and the pay printer will be available.
- Seating will be very limited.
- Noise and dust may be an ongoing annoyance.
- Departmental and public photocopiers (1 each) will be moved and available. The public copy card vending machine will not be available. Purchase and re-value your cards in other campus libraries.
- Reserves materials will be available at the desk as usual. Loan periods will be unchanged.
- Some reference materials will be available, as will current issues of journals.
- Access to electronic information resources will not be affected.
We do not know the exact date of completion and re-opening. Construction in the libary may not be finished by the start of fall classes.
We will do our best to maintain basic services during the disruption. We regret the inconvenience this project will cause. However, we look forward hopefully to a leak-free future in the Mallet Library!
If you have any questions, please contact the library at 512-495-4600.
Tags: chemistry library, library construction
June 18th, 2009
“Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.”
www.wolframalpha.com
Tags: Wolfram|Alpha
May 22nd, 2009
Spring Intersession 2009 – Engineering Library
Wednesday May 20 – Friday May 22
8am-5pm
Saturday May 23 – Monday May 25 (Memorial Day)
Closed
Tuesday May 26 – Friday May 29
8am-5pm
Saturday May 30 - Sunday May 31
Closed
Monday June 1 – Wednesday June 3
8am-5pm
For additional information on library hours go to http://www.lib.utexas.edu/about/hours/
May 20th, 2009
LibX is a Firefox browser add-on that provides direct access to University of Texas Libraries resources.
Features include:
- search toolbar > search a variety of resources including the University of Texas Library catalog, our CrossSearch service, Google Scholar, and more using the LibX toolbar.
- right-click search menus > conduct a search at the University of Texas Libraries by highlighting and right-clicking on search terms.
- embedded cues > LibX places cues in web pages you visit if the University of Texas Libraries have resources related to that page. Cues are displayed at Google, Amazon, Yahoo! Search, the NY Times Book Review, Wikipedia, and other Web sites.
- off-campus access to University of Texas database subscriptions
For more information and instructions on how to install LibX go to http://www.lib.utexas.edu/tools/libx.html
May 8th, 2009
Research Week showcases the exciting work of undergraduates across campus and highlights opportunities for students interested in getting involved.
For more information go to http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/researchweek/
University of Texas Libraries Fair
Time: April 15th: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location: Plaza at the Perry-Castaneda Library (PCL)
The University of Texas Libraries will host their first library fair representing all UT Austin libraries. The eleven campus branches of the libraries will be on hand to highlight services, provide information on resources, and offer activities to attendees. There will be games and contests for prizes along with food and drinks.
April 8th, 2009
IPscore, the EPO’s patent portfolio management tool, has just been released and can now be downloaded free of charge.
You can use IPscore to:
- examine your company’s patent portfolio
- analyse the value of individual patents
- align your company’s patent strategy with your overall business strategy
- make the best use of patents as a business tool
- identify opportunities and risks.
The tool uses 40 factors to assess each patent and visualises the input in spider and portfolio diagrams. The results of the evaluation are stored in a database.
IPscore was originally developed by the Danish Patent and Trademark Office, but was later bought by the EPO.
Training
Accompanying the release of IPscore, we have also posted a short introductory video called “Patent portfolio management with IPscore”.
Other training opportunities include an online “virtual classroom” session and a two-day training course at the EPO, which provides a thorough introduction to patent valuation and how to use IPscore. The course includes hands-on exercises to help you get to know how to use the many features.
Further information
March 4th, 2009
Description: The Theta Tau Rube Goldberg Machine Contest is a competition in which teams of engineering students compete to design and build complicated, multi-stage machines to accomplish a simple task in 20 or more steps. The 2009 task is to replace an incandescent light bulb with a more energy-efficient, light-emitting design.
Time: 6-8 p.m.
Location: ETC Taylor Room
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: http://www.engr.utexas.edu/thetatau/rube/
February 17th, 2009
What?
Make a short video or animation promoting library resources and services.
What’s in it for me?
You could win $100 and get your video on the Libraries web site!
When?
Turn it in with a submission form by April 6th at the PCL Information & Research Help Desk.
More information: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/students/find/videocontest.html
February 16th, 2009
Birthday Celebrations on or around Campus
Darwin Day at the Texas Memorial Museum
“Sunday, February 8th from 12 pm until 5 pm for Darwin Day–a free, family-friendly special event celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.”
Life Science Library
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Noon-1:30PM – Lunchtime demo and discussion of evolution-related videogames. Free pizza and soft drinks for the first 100 attendees!
3:00-5:00PM – Tea, Scones and Birthday Cake – Discuss Darwin’s work and Texas’ science curriculum standards. Please bring your own mug if possible. Thank you!
Online Journal Articles
Darwin’s Gifts - The Lancet
“To commemorate in 2009 the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth and 150 years since publication of On the Origin of Species, the 2008 Special Issue of The Lancet is dedicated to Darwin’s life and work and the enduring legacy of his theory of evolution. Darwin’s Gifts features a collection of 17 essays covering a range of subjects from 21st century eugenics to the representation of evolution in art. Listen to audio of Jane Godsland summarising the Special Issue.” Also available as a FlipBook
Evolution: Education and Outreach – Free Access to All Articles in 2009
“Darwin’s Theory of Evolution revolutionized scientific thinking. Since the publication of The Origin of Species, this theory has been extensively and rigorously tested. Overwhelming scientific evidence from many disciplines support this theory. This journal addresses the question of why we should care about evolution by exploring the practical applications of evolutionary principles in daily life.”
Online Books and Archival Material
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
” . . . contains Darwin’s complete publications, 20,000 private papers, the largest Darwin bibliography, manuscript catalogue and hundreds of supplementary works: specimens, biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and much more.”
Online books by Charles Darwin from Literature.org
The Voyage of the Beagle
The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species – 6th Edition
The Descent of Man
Darwin Correspondence Project
“The Darwin Correspondence Project was founded in 1974 by an American scholar, Frederick Burkhardt, with the aid of Sydney Smith, a zoologist in the University of Cambridge (UK). They originally set out to locate, research, and publish summaries of, all letters written by Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. (1809-82). Following a pilot project, it was decided to include letters written to Darwin also – an unusual step for a collection of correspondence at the time, and one now widely followed – and to publish complete transcripts in chronological order.”
International Resources
Darwin Day Celebration
“On this website you can find all sorts of information about Charles Darwin and the Darwin Day Celebration.”
Blog for Darwin
“February 12th-15th, 2009 participating bloggers around the world will be celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth (February 12th, 1809) with a BLOG SWARM, in which posts will be aggregated on BLOG FOR DARWIN to be kept as a resource for educators, students, and others.”
Miscellaneous
Darwin 200th Birthday/Darwin Day 2009 – Depauw Libraries
“This guide celebrates the life and accomplishments of Charles Darwin, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birthday, February 12, 1809.”
Darwin: Darwin’s Dangerous Idea - PBS
“Why does Charles Darwin’s “dangerous idea” matter more today than ever, and how does it explain the past and predict the future of life on Earth? The first show interweaves the drama of Darwin’s life with current documentary sequences, introducing key concepts of evolution.”
Evolving Darwin Play Set - Archie McPhee
Tags: Darwin
February 5th, 2009
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