Copyright and Your Publications

Confused by all the copyright forms you have to fill out for the publishers?
Do you wish you could retain control over your own work?  Anyone who is planning to write and/or publish articles, books or theses will find something useful in this workshop.

Thursday, November 4

2:00-3:00pm

Sherman Fairchild Library, Multimedia Conference Room 328

Register:  http://library.caltech.edu/forms/cls-classes.php

EndNote For Beginners

Are you writing a research paper or ready to start your thesis? Want an easy way to store, manage and search for bibliographic references? EndNote for Beginners may be just the quick start session you need. Learn what EndNote is and the basics of how it can work for you to organize the articles you’re reading and create bibliographies within a word processing document.  We’ll cover how to get your references into EndNote and what to do with them once they’re there.

Thursday, October 28

2:00-3:00pm

Sherman Fairchild Library, Multimedia Conference Room

Register:  http://library.caltech.edu/forms/cls-classes.php

CODA: If you publish, you need CaltechAUTHORS

CaltechAUTHORS, http://authors.library.caltech.edu,  is an institutional repository providing free access to articles written by, with, or in close association with Caltech professorial faculty. Come and see how quickly and easily author postprints (author-formatted, post-peer review and copy-edited) can be uploaded and made easily retrievable by a global audience.

Tuesday October 19

2:00-3:00pm

Sherman Fairchild Library, Multimedia Conference Room 328

Register:  http://library.caltech.edu/forms/cls-classes.php

Reaxys/DiscoveryGate/SciFinder Web presented by Dana Roth

Thursday, October 14

2:00-3:00pm

Sherman Fairchild Library, Multimedia Conference Room 328

Reaxys:

The new web interface to Beilstein, Gmelin and Elsevier’s Patent Chemistry database.

It runs on both MACs and PCs and will replace both the Crossfire client software and DiscoveryGate access at the end of 2010.

Caltech will continue to have access to Beilstein and Gmelin thru all three interfaces until then.

DiscoveryGate:

A search/display interface to a multi-database collection that includes both Beilstein and Gmelin thru 2010.

It also includes numerous specialty databases (such as MDDR, Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry, NCI database) that can be searched individually or as a group.

SciFinder Web:

The new web interface to SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts Service).

In addition to chemistry and chemical engineering, SciFinder’s coverage extends to the chemical aspects of biology, environmental engineering, geology, materials science, medicine, and physics.

It runs on both MACs and PCs and will replace the SciFinder Scholar client in June 2011.

Register:  http://library.caltech.edu/forms/cls-classes.php

You and Your Thesis

Are you working on your thesis? Did you know that electronic copies of theses must be submitted? Are you aware of the formatting requirements for theses? You are encouraged to attend a brief overview of techniques useful in the production and publication of Caltech electronic theses. The session will include tips on formatting and submitting, and will touch on intellectual property considerations and access.

Tuesday, October 5

2:00-3:00pm

Sherman Fairchild Library, Multimedia Conference Room 328

Register:  http://library.caltech.edu/forms/cls-classes.php