March 2009 Archives

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The University Libraries have put together an excellent resource to inform campus authors of ways they can retain some of the rights to the scholarly articles that they publish so they can maximize the impact of their scholarly work. I encourage present and future academic authors to take a look at http://www.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/.

Especially key is the copyright addendum that can help you to retain parts of your copyright. You often don't have to sign away all of your rights. Many publishers are receptive to sharing copyright, if you ask.

Using this copyright addendum makes doing things like placing your work in our Digital Conservancy much easier. The Conservancy provides a stable url to link others to your work and has been found to raise a work's search engine ranking, making the work more visible!

If you have questions about using the copyright addenda or you're interested in using the Digital Conservancy, send me an email.

Chemistry Librarian, Meghan Lafferty, will provide a guided tour of SciFinder Scholar...a chemistry database that provides useful information on substances and materials. The tour will introduce users to the database and provide hands-on opportunities to familiarize yourself with this information source.

Here are the details:

Introduction to SciFinder Scholar
Monday, March 30
4:00-5:15
Walter 310
Register Here

Welcome back from Spring Break! Here's a list of recent arrivals to Walter Library that may be of interest to Biomedical Engineers. If you have any book purchase recommendations, feel free to send them my way!

Microbial Production of Biopolymers and Polymer Precursors: Applications and Perspectives
Edited by Bernd H. A. Rehm
Walter Library: TP248.27.M53 M538 2009

Colloidal Nanoparticles in Biotechnology
By Abdelhamid Elaissari
Walter Library: R857.N34 C65 2008

Basic Laboratory Methods for Biotechnology
By Lisa A. Seidman and Cynthia J. Moore
Walter Library: TP248.24 .S45 2009

We'll be hosting a variety of workshops next week that you may interested in as you gear up for the end of the semester. Here's a listing of the workshops that still have seats open:

Autoalerts (Automatic Updates and News) For Research
Tuesday, March 24
1:30-2:30
Walter 310

Description: Autoalerts are brief information updates automatically generated by a database, search engine, journal publisher's website or blog. The alerts are sent to you as either an e-mail or an RSS feed. This is an easy-to-use technique for staying up to date with news and research literature for a specific discipline or topic. This workshop will demonstrate some introductory methods for setting up autoalerts for your work. The class will be taught utilizing science and health science information resources for demonstration purposes. Class level: Introductory, no previous experience with autoalerts is necessary. Some experience with basic literature database searches is helpful. Audience: The class is open to U of M faculty, staff and students.
Register Here

Unravel 2: The Research Process--Finding Articles
Wednesday, March 25
12:30-1:45
Walter 310

Description: The U of M has the 15th largest research library system in the United States. How do you find appropriate books and articles in this huge place? This free workshop will help! Save time and energy by learning to do it right. The workshop will focus on effectively accessing articles through the University Libraries and identifying which of these materials are consider scholarly. This workshop is geared towards undergraduates, but all researchers are welcome to attend.
Register Here.

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Enjoy the week off next week! The library will be open...but at reduced hours. Here are the Spring Break Hours:

Saturday, March 14 - Sunday, March 15: Noon - 6:00 pm
Monday, March 16 - Thursday, March 19: 8:00 am - 9:00 pm
Friday, March 20: CLOSED
Saturday, March 21: Noon - 6:00 pm

We'll resume regular hours on Sunday March, 22. The Science and Engineering Library Hours can always be found on our website.

The Science Quiz Bowl is coming up as part of IT Week. It's the annual friendly knowledge contest sponsored by the Mathematics and Science & Engineering Libraries. Registration is open and limited to IT students.

Teams consist of four members. If you don't have a team but still want to participate there are possibilities to be on a randomly generated team. Registration closes on March 25 and only the first 32 teams to register will be able to participate.

Learn more and REGISTER here!

Our Science and Engineering Library homepage has updated its new book list. Here are some new books that may be of interest to Biomedical Engineering.

Ultrashort Laser Pulses in Biology and Medicine
By Markus Braun
Full Text: https://www.lib.umn.edu/slog.phtml?url=http://www.myilibrary.com?id=124159

Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems
2nd Edition
By George A. Truskey
QH509 .T78 2009

Encyclopedia of Diagnostic Imaging
Full Text: https://www.lib.umn.edu/slog.phtml?url=http://www.myilibrary.com?id=135225

Imaging in Transplantation
By A.L Baert, M. Knauth, K. Sartor.
Full Text: https://www.lib.umn.edu/slog.phtml?url=http://www.myilibrary.com?id=114032

If you have books you'd like us to order, just send me an email

Are you curious to know more about the free Mozilla Firefox plug-in that will allow you to save and organize online websites, citations, and full text articles?

The plug-in is called Zotero and we'll be teaching a workshop here at Walter Library that will show you how to

• Save websites, citations, and full-text articles
• Organize your research for maximum efficiency
• Format in-text citations in Microsoft Word or Google Docs
• Create a quick bibliography

Here's the information on the workshop...if you have any questions about the workshop or Zotero in general, please feel free to drop me an email.

Zotero: An Introduction
Monday, March 9
1:25-2:25
Walter Library 310
Register Here

Here's a list of some new titles that have recently come into Walter Library or are available from our e-book subscriptions. If you have purchase requests feel free to email me.

Career Development in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Edited by Guruprasad Madhavan, Barbara Oakley, and Luis Kun
E-book available through Springer E-Books

Intelligent Systems Modeling and Decision Support in Bioengineering
By Mahdi Mahfouf
E-book

Introduction to Signal and System Analysis
by K. Gopalan
QA402 .G6735 2009