Interested in researching or working in the field of energy? Want to find out how your energy project fits into the landscape of various industries? This session will give you the skills to research the business and statistical information on energy to find industry overviews, market research, news and data.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 13, 1 – 2pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Katherine McNeill with any questions.
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EndNote is a “personal bibliographic software” package which allows you to create and manage a database of bibliographic references.
Attendees will create a personal database of cited literature by importing references from resources such as Barton, Web of Science, PubMed, & other sources of published literature. Your database can be used to automatically generate in-text citations and bibliographies in your manuscripts. It can also help you organize and manage your PDF files.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 13, 12 – 1pm, Tuesday, January 19, 5 – 6pm, or Monday, January 25, 5 – 6pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Peter Cohn with any questions.
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Participants will join the Preservation Services team to create a side-sewn soft-cover book using the techniques of traditional Japanese bookbinding.
The workshop will include an overview of the history, materials, and techniques of the Japanese bookmaking tradition, which is markedly different from that used to create Western books. Each participant will complete one blank book covered in beautiful Japanese decorative paper.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 20, 10am – 12pm
WHERE: 14-0513
NOTE: This session is currently FULL. Contact Nick Szydlowski with any questions or to add your name to the wait list.
A couple hours in the Library can save you a couple of weeks in the lab. Don’t waste your time reinventing the gelatin sponge-choriallantoic membrane assay. Improve your efficiency by learning strategies for finding published research protocols and methods. This session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent introduction to resources that support bioscience bench research.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 12, 5 – 6pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Howard Silver with any questions.
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Come and hear Jack Turner, Associate Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office and patent attorney Sam Pasternak, recently of Choate, Hall and Stewart and now at the TLO, discuss the ins and outs of obtaining patents.
This popular session covers a bit of patent history and a lot about current practices, processes, and issues surrounding obtaining a patent; the focus is on the process used at MIT for ideas/inventions developed by the MIT community. A portion of the session is devoted to questions and answers. If you think you will ever invent something, you need to be here.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 12, 2 – 3:30pm
WHERE: 3-133
Contact Carol Robinson with any questions.
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Intended for graduated students or other interested MIT authors, addresses what copyright means to you as an author, how you can assess a publisher’s copyright policies, and how you can use web-based tools that assess journal quality. Open access publishing models, the new MIT Faculty Open Access Policy, and the use of the MIT amendment to alter standard publisher agreements will also be discussed.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 12, 1 – 2pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact copyright-lib@mit.edu for more information.
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For researchers struggling to manage their data, basic strategies will be provided for
• best practices for retention and archiving
• effective directory structures and naming conventions
• good file formats for long-term access
• data security and backup options
• metadata, tagging, and citation
• other relevant issues
WHEN: Tuesday, January 12, 11am – 12pm or Tuesday, January 26, 10 – 11am (duplicate session)
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and limited to 20 participants.
Contact Amy Stout with any questions.
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This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.
Using citation management software to create and maintain a collection of references is becoming more common and important in today’s academic world. These software packages allow users to search databases, retrieve relevant citations, and build a bibliography to be added to a paper or thesis or stored for future reference. But which software package should you use, and how do you get started?
This session will focus on EndNote, RefWorks, and Zotero, the three major options for bibliographic software at MIT. We will include a discussion comparing and contrasting the three softwares, and we will introduce some of the basic concepts and functionality of each program.
WHEN: Monday, January 11, 5 – 6pm & Thursday, January 28, 12 – 1pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis. 20 computers are available; you are welcome to bring a laptop.
Contact Mathew Willmott with any questions.
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This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.
Learn how to use the BIOBASE Knowledge Library (BKL) and Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) bioinformatics tools licensed by MIT Libraries. Interested in systems biology, biomarkers, drug target discovery, and high-throughput data analysis? Learn to use HGMD, a comprehensive database on human germ-line mutations associated with disease, to determine whether a newly identified gene lesion is novel, search for an overview of known mutations within a given gene, or search for a particular type of gene mutation within a specific chromosomal location.
WHEN: Monday, January 11, 2 – 5pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Contact Courtney Crummett with any questions.
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This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.
