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February 29, 2008
NCBI Field Course Will NOT be Held
In January, it was announced that the University of Illinois would be hosting the Field Guide to NCBI Resources Course . I've had several inquiries about it (originally scheduled for April 17-18).
Unfortunately, that tremendous training opportunity will NOT occur. Yesterday the NCBI Field Guide coordinator, Peter Cooper, sent the following email:
Because of budgetary constraints, NCBI has made reductions in some of its programs, and the education programs are affected. In fact, all outreach education programs (Field Guide, Mini-courses, Structures, PubChem) are terminated effective immediately. At this point we cannot reschedule this course or accept requests for future courses of any kind. This was as much a surprise to me as it is to you. Feel free to contact me if you have questions.
The Field Course, as well as the Mini-Courses and the Structure course , has been tremendously popular and useful (see list of sites where the Field Course has been offered recently ), but the NCBI budget situation will not allow NCBI to continue to travel and offer these courses for the foreseeable future.
If we would have been able to host the Field Course, registratants would have been asked to print out the PowerPoint slides for the 3-hour lecture presentation, and the Workshop exercises ahead of time. Here they are...
- Field Guide - Part one (ppt)
- Field Guide - Part two - Entrez (ppt)
- Field Guide - Part three - Blast (ppt)
- Field Guide - Exercises (pdf)
Additionally, you may find the following materials of interest, from the Mini-courses and the Structure Course:
- Mini-courses - Powerpoint presentations and Workshop exercises
- Structure Course -- Lecture Slides, Course handout, Workshop Exercises
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Katie
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Prof. Katie Newman
Biotechnology Librarian, Biotechnology Information Center (BIC),
and UIUC Scholarly Communication Officer
Office: 123A Burrill Hall, MC-112
Email: florador@uiuc.edu
Phone: (217) 265-5386
Fax: (217) 333-3662
Posted by mmalliso at 10:17 AM
February 25, 2008
Web of Knowledge Training sessions
Forward from the Illinois Natural History Survey Library:
On Tuesday, March 11th, a Web of Knowledge training instructor from Thomson Scientific will offer hands on training for Web of Knowledge special features, and the Science Citation Index and Zoological Record databases.
Web of Knowledge The Web of Knowledge has recently released a newly designed interface with powerful new search features. A Web of Knowledge training instructor will review specific aspects and services offered to searchers such as creating alerts and RSS feeds, and researcher ID’s. This session is geared for Librarians and GSLIS students and will start at 1:00 PM.
The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences, indexing over 6650 major journals. A cited reference searching enables you to find articles that cite a previously published work. This session will be at 2:00 PM.
Zoological Record is the world’s leading taxonomic reference database indexing over 5000 journals plus monographs and conference proceedings. It is the unofficial registry of animal names and it covers the years 1864 to the present. There will be a general review of the database with an emphasis on locating records of new species. This session will be at 3:00 PM.These will be held in the ACES Library (1101 S. Goodwin) in the 5th floor computer training lab, room 509. The search interface for these two article databases has recently been redesigned so you can learn about some new and exciting features. Also, fyi, Zoological Record is now available online from 1864 (volume one) to the present.
If you are interested in attending please sign up soon. Each session can accommodate up to 40 participants and seats may fill up quickly.
To sign up click on the following link to access the University Library calendar.
http://130.126.32.16/evanced/lib0/eventcalendar.asp
Go to the month of March and click on the event(s) you would like to attend. The popup window will direct you to an online registration form.
Contact Beth Wohlgemuth, Head Librarian, Illinois Natural History Survey Library, 244-4907 with any questions.
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Melody Allison
Assistant Biology Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Administration
Biology Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
101 Burrill Hall, 407 South Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 333-7461; 3654
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
-- James Madison
Posted by mmalliso at 1:38 PM
February 22, 2008
Sixth Annual Symposium on Graduate Education
Sixth Annual Symposium on Graduate Education
Co-sponsored by the Graduate College and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
Research Integrity: Whose Rights? Whose Responsibilities?
A symposium for graduate faculty, students, and alumni
THIS Monday, February 25, 2008, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Illini Union Rooms B & C
Review the program:
http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/events/symposium/2008/program.htm
Register: (requested)
http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/events/symposium/registration.asp
Please note: At 1:10 Dr. Drummond Rennie , Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco and Deputy Editor of JAMA will give a talk:
Who Wrote My Paper? R&R in Academia [Research & Responsibility}
Katie
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Prof. Katie Newman
Biotechnology Librarian, Biotechnology Information Center (BIC),
and UIUC Scholarly Communication Officer
Office: 123A Burrill Hall, MC-112
Email: florador@uiuc.edu
Phone: (217) 265-5386
Fax: (217) 333-3662