The library is offering two workshops for students today:
Finding Literary Criticism
Tuesday, December 1, 1-1:45pm
Avoiding Plagiarism in Your Coursework
Tuesday, December 1, 5:15-6pm
Workshops are open to all City Tech students. All workshops are held in our electronic classroom, Rm A540, on the 5th Fl. of the City Tech Library (Atrium).
For more information, visit the library website.
Today’s student workshops in t…
Today’s student workshops in the library: Finding Literary Criticism @ 1pm and Avoiding Plagiarism @ 5:15pm, Rm A540. http://bit.ly/RfZ2o
PubMed Faculty Workshop This Wednesday
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to attend a workshop on the PubMed database, the National Library of Medicine’s premier search system for biomedical and health information. Topics covered include the scope and content of PubMed (e.g., how it differs from MEDLINE); building a search using keywords, MeSH terms, and other PubMed search tools; and linking to full-text articles in PubMed Central and City Tech Library databases.
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, December 2, 1-2 pm in Rm. A540, on the 5th fl of the library. RSVP to Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.
Students: Come to a Workshop on Finding Articles
All students are welcome to attend a library workshop this week. Learn how to use the EBSCO databases–Academic Search Complete and others–to get full-text articles from scholarly journals and magazines on your research topic.
Details:
Tuesday, November 24
1-1:45pm
City Tech Library, Rm A540 (5th floor classroom)
For more information, contact Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
Student workshops continue next week! To view our full schedule of student workshops, visit the library website.
Join us today for our LexisNex…
Join us today for our LexisNexis Workshop at 5:15 in the eClassroom in the library.
Faculty workshop Wed. Oct. 28: Finding Scholarly Information with Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a useful tool for finding scholarly information on the web, including articles and books. In this workshop, we’ll explore Google Scholar and investigate the types of search results (conference papers, preprints, anthology chapters, journal articles, and more). We’ll also customize Scholar preferences to facilitate full-text access from home or office computers. Time permitting, we’ll explore Google Books.
Workshops are open to all City Tech faculty members.
DATE: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
VENUE: Rm. A441, 4th Floor, City Tech Library (Atrium Bldg.)
TIME: 1.00 – 2.00 p.m.
http://library.citytech.cuny.edu
RSVP is encouraged to Prof. Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
Today: Open Access Publishing for Faculty
It’s Open Access Week, so join faculty from the library and across the college to discuss the reality and potential of Open Access Publishing, as it ties into the economics of and access to scholarship, and offers opportunities for peer-reviewed publication.
Publication Opportunities: What’s New with Open Access
A Discussion with and for City Tech Faculty
Date: Tuesday, October 20
Time: 3:30-5:00pm
Venue: Faculty Lounge A632
Coffee & Cookies will be served.
Save the Date: Open Access Publishing
Join faculty from the library and across the college to discuss the reality and potential of Open Access Publishing, as it ties into the economics of and access to scholarship, and offers opportunities for peer-reviewed publication.
Publication Opportunities: What’s New with Open Access
A Discussion with and for City Tech Faculty
Date: Tuesday, October 20
Time: 3:30-5:00pm
Venue: Faculty Lounge A632
RSVP is encouraged to Prof. Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
Coffee & Cookies will be served.
RefWorks Faculty Workshop Wed 10/7
Faculty, join us in the library for a workshop this week:
Introduction to RefWorks for Citation Management.
Streamline your research with RefWorks, a bibliographic citation management tool available to all City Tech faculty. With RefWorks it’s easy to import references from online databases, organize your references into folders by topic or project, and generate a bibliography formatted in a variety of citation styles. In this workshop we’ll cover the basics of using RefWorks from both on- and off-campus.
When: Wednesday, October 7, 1-2 pm
Where: Rm. A441 (small library classroom), on the 4th fl of the library
RSVP: Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748
This week's faculty workshop: EBSCO databases
Calling all faculty! Please join us at the library this Wednesday, September 16, from 1-2pm for a workshop:
Getting the Most from EBSCO Article Databases
The City Tech Library subscribes to more than 20 EBSCO article databases covering a wide range of scholarly and professional subjects. During this workshop you’ll learn strategies to help you search these databases more effectively. We’ll also review EBSCO’s research productivity tools, from keeping lists of search results to emailing articles to creating search and journal publication alerts.
The workshop will be held in the library classroom, Rm A540. RSVP to Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718.260.5748. Hope to see you there!
