Have you heard about the NIH Public Access Mandate? Learn more about how this affects you and your Illinois research on the University Library's Scholarly Communication blog. Or you can check out our Guide to the NIH Public Access Mandate.
How To Be A Better RA/TA
Geared towards Research and Teaching Assistants, this library workshop will introduce several time-saving tips. Topics include the basics of working for others (e.g., proxy authorizations and departmental charge accounts), current awareness services, PapersInvited, how to locate dissertations, and how to use RefWorks, a personal citation database.
Tuesday, September 16th 10-11am
Citation Chasing: The Grad Student's Guide to the Lit Review
Are you sure you found everything for your lit review? This workshop will cover how to find the tough stuff e.g. conference proceedings, dissertations and statistics. Bring your problem citations, we'll sleuth them out!
Thursday, September 18th 3-4pm
Tools to Stay Current in Your Research
Save valuable research time! Online research resources are pervasive today, making it much harder to stay current in your field. This workshop will introduce several current awareness features including how to set up an RSS feed reader account, creating search alerts from library databases as well as Table of Contents alerts in your discipline.