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Elsevier TrainingDesk offers live and recorded training sessions conducted by professional instructors, tutorials, presentations and other support info.

 

Requesting Journal Articles

ArticleReach was retired in April, 2012. If you need an article not owned by WU Libraries, simply submit your request via ILLiad (http://illiad.wustl.edu/illiad/logon.html). We’ll still get it for you fast (often within 24-48 hours) and deliver it electronically as a PDF.

For more info go to: Ask Us! Interlibrary loan

UT Summer Statistics Institute - May 21 – May 24, 2012

The Division of Statistics + Scientific Computation at The University of Texas at Austin will be hosting the University’s fifth annual UT Summer Statistics Institute on the UT Austin campus from May 21 – May 24, 2012.  Short courses are offered at all levels including introductory statistics, software, and statistical methods and applications. We are offering a Bayesian Statistics for Social Sciences course, as well as many other courses that would be of interest to the members of your political methodology list.

The three main purposes of the SSI are:

•   To provide participants with access to new statistical knowledge and skills

•   To give participants hands-on experience with data analysis

•   To prepare participants to interpret studies employing statistical methods.

Registration is now open. Students receive a 60% discount and groups can receive a 20% discount off the regular $500 course fee. Visit our website at http://www.ssc.utexas.edu to download the UT Summer Statistics Institute brochure and learn more.

Libraries offer new "Twitter 201" series

At first glance, Twitter might appear to be just one of many online attention drains. But tweeting often proves surprisingly practical. A number of WU Libraries staff are among those who think so, and an upcoming series of free workshops will help interested members of the WUSTL community explore why.

Titled Twitter 201, the free miniseries is open to all students, faculty, and staff, with three 40-minute sessions on different topics to be held the last Thursday of the month in February, March, and April (Olin Library, Arc Presentation Room, Level A). Register to attend one, two, or all three of the sessions:

• During the first session (4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23), librarians Erin Leach and Brian Vetruba will discuss Twitter as a way to develop professionally and foster meaningful professional connections. Twitter has become a valuable networking tool for professionals in a variety of disciplines. It can be used to start conversations with “the experts,” to get help with a tricky professional problem, and to follow conference activities.

• The second workshop (4 p.m. Thursday, March 29) will focus on how writers and readers can tackle Twitter. Staff members Evie Hemphill and Tim Lepczyk use Twitter to share ideas, find inspiration, engage with authors and editors, and keep their writing sharp. The new salon is a hashtag away and open to everyone.

• The third session (4 p.m. Thursday, April 26) aims to help participants understand the power of the 140-character tweet. Librarians Jaleh Fazelian and Makiba Foster will lead a discussion of Twitter’s instrumental role as an unlikely galvanizing tool in various national and global movements. The revolution will not be televised, but it will be tweeted. From Iran to Wall Street, from Tunisia to Egypt, Twitter was and is a part of these recent revolutions.

In addition to the Twitter 201 series, an introductory Twitter 101 session is scheduled for 3 p.m. Thursday, February 9. Geared for the Twitter novice, this hour-and-a-half session will cover account creation, search features, what it means to follow someone, how to construct a tweet, what hashtags and retweets are, and other Twitter basics.

For more information visit http://wulibraries.doattend.com. And be sure to follow the Libraries on Twitter at http://twitter.com/@WUSTLlibraries.

Need an Article? Reach Out to ILLiad!

Interlibrary Loan will retire the ArticleReach interface soon, but speedy delivery remains! If you need an article not owned by WU Libraries, simply submit your request via ILLiad (http://illiad.wustl.edu/illiad/logon.html). We’ll get it fast (often within 24-48 hours) and email you when the article can be downloaded. Same quick delivery of PDFs, email notifications, all your ILL activities in one place – ILLiad. Contact ILL staff (ill@wumail.wustl.edu) for more information.

RefWorks Updated to 2.0

The next time you log in to RefWorks, you'll see a new login screen.  The publisher of RefWorks has created a new interface for it, with new features:

• Subfolders—for creating folders within folders that keep information organized and easy to share.
• Folder de-duplication—for de-duping within a single folder to remove multiple occurrences of a reference.
• Limiting fields in shared items—for sharing only the desired references and information with colleagues. Account owners will be able to choose which fields to show for each share.
• Combined Folders and Sharing page—for improved display on one screen. Easier than ever to manage folders and decide which ones to share.
• Keyboard navigation of interface items—for compatibility with Assistive Technologies in accordance with the American Disability Act.

If you wish to use the Classic interface instead of the 2.0 interface, you can choose to do that - until the end of 2011; at that time only the 2.0 interface will remain available.  To choose it, log in to your RefWorks account and choose the RefWorks Classic link at the top right of the screen.  Your account will remain on the Classic interface (except for the login screen), until you choose to use the 2.0 interface by clicking that link at top of the screen when logged in to your account.  Note that the features above are not available in the Classic interface.

The RefWorks login page has links to a 2.0 quick start guide, Flash tutorial, and a workbook, so you can familiarize yourself with the new interface.  If you have any questions, please contact me.

Google Scholar Citations (currently in beta)

"Launched in 2004 as a search engine for academic publications, Google Scholar last month added Google Scholar Citations (GSC), which lets a researcher create a personal profile showing all their articles in the Google Scholar database. The profile also shows plots of the number of citations these papers have received over time, and other citation metrics including the popular h-index, which attempts to measure both the productivity of a scientist and the overall impact of their publications. The service is currently in invitation-only beta testing, but Google intends eventually to roll it out to all researchers."  Read more at Computing giants launch free science metrics.

ProfHacker article about Mendeley citation manager

Are you looking for a way to organize your research library?  Check out this article in the Chronicle yesterday about Mendeley's 1.0 version of their cross-platform software .  Questions?  Let me know.

New Mobile Website!

Washington University Libraries is pleased to announce the release of our mobile website at http://library.wustl.edu/m. You can now use any smart phone to access information about the library. From the mobile website users can access the library’s hours, the catalog, check for computer availability, get reference assistance, and much more. Here's a preview:

We hope the mobile site makes using the library easier for you and becomes an essential tool in your on-the-go needs. Please contact me with any questions or comments you have. Thanks!

Text us!

Have a question?  Now you can send questions to Library staff through text messages, rather than using a web browser for the regular chat service: just text your message to 314-884-8010!

Get prompt replies from the Olin Library Help Desk (when it's open!).  More info.