Archive for October, 2011

Library Workshop: Copyright and Your Publications: Wednesday, November 2, 2:00pm

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.

Wednesday, November 2

2:00-3:00pm

Sherman Fairchild Library, Multimedia Conference Room 328

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

Hillary Jordan presents “When She Woke”: Wednesday, November 2, 7:00pm

Hillary Jordan presents When She Woke, Part 2 of the Friends of the Caltech Libraries Series:

Worlds Gone Wrong:  Exploring the Dystopian Novel.

Introduction by Cindy A. Weinstein, Professor of English; Executive Office for the Humanities.

Vroman’s sponsored book signing to follow.

Lecture:  Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 7 p.m. Admission is free.

Location:  Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall, Guggenheim Building #101, Caltech.

 

Ms. Jordan, author of the Pasadena Library’s 2011 “One City, One Story” selection, Mudbound, returns to Caltech to introduce her new novel, When She Woke.

Library Workshop: Web of Science: Wednesday, October 26, 2:00pm

Web of Science

This session will provide a wide variety of strategies for searching Web of Science including topic, & author searching, retrieving citing articles, linking to full-text, exporting records directly into EndNote or the new Web EndNote, and creating search and citation alerts.

Wednesday, October 26

2:00-3:00pm

Sherman Fairchild Library, Multimedia Conference Room 328

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

Library Workshop: CODA: If You Publish, You Need CaltechAUTHORS: Monday, October 17

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.

Monday, October 17

2:00-3:00pm

Sherman Fairchild Library, Multimedia Conference Room 328

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

September 2011 New Books and Journals lists

The lists of new books and journals added to the libraries’ collections during the month of September 2011 are now available.   The book list includes cover images for many items, and links to Amazon to allow you to browse the books electronically.  Please note that we provide no guarantee that Amazon has contracted with the publisher to allow viewers to browse specific books.

Library Workshop: EndNote For Beginners: Wednesday, October 12

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.

Wednesday, October 12

2:00-3:00pm

Sherman Fairchild Library, Multimedia Conference Room 328

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

Web of Science down Sunday October 9th

Thomson Reuters will be performing maintenance to Web of Knowledge, EndNote Web and ResearcherID this Sunday, October 9th, 2011 beginning at 1:00 PM GMT. They expect this maintenance to last approximately 12 hours. During this time, there may be disruption of service and product access including Web of Knowledge Personalization. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.