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Manage your PDFs & citations: Zotero & Mendeley
Using citation management software to create and maintain a collection of references or PDFs is common and important in today’s academic world. These tools...
EndNote basics
EndNote is a “personal bibliographic software” package which allows you to create and manage a database of bibliographic references. Learn how to find and...
Intro to GIS
We will introduce open source and proprietary Geographic Information System (GIS) software options and let attendees choose to work through exercises using ESRI ArcGIS...
Confidential research information management
Researchers in the social, behavioral and health sciences perform research involving non-classified but confidential information. This course provides core concepts in data privacy and...
Patent searching fundamentals
This session will enable you to successfully find patent references from all over the world, and obtain patent text and diagrams. This hands-on session...
Taking on link rot: Harvard Library Innovation Lab’s Perma.cc
Location: E25-401 Perma.cc is a web archiving platform and service developed by the Harvard Library Innovation Lab (LIL) to help combat link rot. Link rot occurs...
Tim hits the books… and the road
You heard that right. The MIT Libraries have a new ride, featuring Tim the Beaver! After a long, rough winter and many years of...
Coming soon: Duke to join Borrow Direct!
Borrow Direct, the speedy book delivery service between university libraries, will welcome Duke in early May. Duke University Libraries are one of the nation’s...
Nancy McGovern voted VP/President-elect of SAA
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) has elected Nancy McGovern, MIT Libraries’ Head of Curation and Preservation Services, as SAA Vice President/President-Elect. She begins a one-year term this August and will become...