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SEMINARS MEET IN THE COLLABORATIVE LEARNING CENTER
1st FLOOR LIED LIBRARY OR OTHERWISE NOTED

RefWorks for Education Researchers : Learn to use RefWorks to capture citations to journal articles, books, web sites and more into your personal online database. You'll be able to quickly link to online articles, organize and share youre references and automatically create formatted bibliographies in all the major citation formats, including APA, MLA and Chicago styles.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 2:30-3:30 pm Curriculum Materials Library Computer Classroom, CEB-101, Carlson Education Building

Crisis in Scholarly Communication : Focuses on the major issues involved in the scholarly resesarch process including journal pricing, library budgets, alternative publishing and copyright.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 1:00-2:00 pm, Rhyolite Room, Lied Library

RefWorks for Health Sciences: Learn how to use this online resesarch management, writing and collaboration tool that is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

Thursday, October 2, 2008, 12:30-1:30 pm, Rhyolite Room

RefWorks for Social Sciences: Learn how to use this online resesarch management, writing and collaboration tool that is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 12:30-1:30 pm Rhyolite Room

Fair Use Access to Library Resources: Learn ways of incorporating library resources into your courses while avoiding the pitfalls of copyright law. Discover what the principle of fair use allows and how fair use is determined.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:30-1:30 pm Rhyolite Room

Copyright for Authors: This workshop discusses issues involved with copyright for scholarly publishing from the faculty perspective.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:00-3:00 pm Rhyolite Room

Alternatives to the Term Paper: Fresh Ideas for Research Assignments: Tired of slogging through another research paper? Wonder if there is another way to assess students' learning? Come learn fresh ideas for research assignments that are creative, engaging, and challenging.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 12:30-1:30 pm, Rhyolite Room

Health Statistics: Thsi workshop will introduce resources for finding and using local and national statistics for the health sciences

Thursday, October 30, 2008, 12:30–1:30 pm, Rhyolite Room

Talkin' 'bout My Generation: Discover information-rich resources for researching demographic groups! Who really are the Generation X'ers? What are the Baby Boomers buying? What's the Millennial Generation's learning style? The presenters will focus on selected electronic journal databases that are linked from the UNLV Libraries' web pages, as well as government-based resources, and print publications.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 12:30-1:30 pm, Rhyolite Room

Citation Analysis-Find Out Who's Citing You!: Citation analysis is the examination of the frequency and pattern of citations in articles and books. It is the most common method of bibliometrics. Learn how to use Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar to see who's citing you and other experts in the field.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 12:30-1:30 pm, Rhyolite Room

Open Access Resources for Health Sciences Literature: Learn about scholarly articles are freely available for education and research purposes on the public internet, as well as a brief overview of the NIH-open-access policy

Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 12:30-1:30 pm, Rhyolite Room

Literature Review Workshop for the Social Sciences: Learn how to conduct a thesis/dissertation literature review: keep track of all your sources, searches, and all the new research in your field; and use those valuable library resources more effectively and effciently.

Thursday, November 20, 2008, 9:30-11:00 am, Eureka Room

Designing Effective Research Assignments: Have you had it with student research papers that only cite web pages? In this workshop we'll learn how to intentionally design research assignments that require students to access, evaluate and use information more critically. We'll look at the anatomy of good (and not so good) research assignments and start you on the path to research assignments to re-design one of your own.

Thursday, December 4, 2008, 12:00-1:30 pm, Rhyolite Room