PUBLISHING ISSUES AND INFORMATION USE FOR PHD-CANDIDATES

AT THE FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCES

In May 2011 the University Library offers Ph.D. candidates at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences a series of courses addressing publishing issues, advanced literature searching techniques and information management. The Faculty highly recommends Ph.D. candidates participate!

The course will be taught in English, and consist of the following modules:

	Lessons	time	Content
Plenary sessions	Part 1: Scholarly literature	Wednesday 4. May 13:15 – 15:00	Structural characteristics of scholarly literature Searching and retrieving scholarly literature Choosing ’high quality’ scholarly literature Using scholarly literature in own works Follow the development in a subject field
	Part 2: Citation statistics	Monday 9. May 14:00 – 15:00	The journals’ impact factor The author’s mean citation count and h-index Examples from ISI WoS and Google Scholar Publication points according to the Norwegian system
	Part 3: Publishing	Monday 9. May 15:00 – 16:00	Copyright issues and publishing Open Access publishing Self-archiving and institutional repositories
Workshops	CSA	Thursday 5.May 10:15 – 12:00	Database features and hands-on searching (ASFA, Georef, Entomology Abstracts, MGA)
	PubMed	Monday 9. May 12:45 – 13:45	Database features and hands-on searching
	ISI WoS and Google Scholar	Tuesday 10. May 10:15 – 12:00 or Wednesday 11. May 12:15 – 14:00	Database features and hands-on searching (JCR, ISI WoS, Inspec, Zoological Records, Biosis Previews and Google Scholar)
	Scifinder	Thursday 12. May 10:15 – 12:00	Database features and hands-on searching
	CABI	Friday 13. May 12:15 – 13:00	Database features and hands-on searching (Review of Plant Pathology, Helminthological Abstracts)
Workshops	EndNote, basic	Friday 13. May 09:15 – 11:00 Wednesday 18. May 12:15 – 14:00	Managing references (beginners) - Entering references - Choosing styles - Creating bibliographies - Using references while writing (MS Word)
Workshops	EndNote, experienced users	Thursday 19. May 09:15 – 11:00 Friday 20. May 12:15 – 14:00	Managing references (experienced users) - Short repetition of main features - Adding fulltext to a reference - Creating a bibliography from multiple documents - Collaborating on an EN library - Creating own styles

You can sign up for individual plenary sessions and workshops. Please sign up on e-mail to diem.tran@mnfa.uib.no before Thursday 28^th of April, and note which sessions and workshops you would like to attend.

Please note that if very few candidates sign up for a module, it might be cancelled.

Plenary session 1 (Scholarly Literature) and all workshops will be held in Carl Godske’s Hus, Johannes Brunsgt 12 (Building 7 on the map below). The plenary session will be given in Auditorium Pi, next door to the entrance of the Science Library. All workshop modules will be given in the AV-room at the Science Library, one floor up from the main entrance.

Plenary sessions 2 (Citation statistics) and 3 (Publishing) are a cooperation between the Science Library and the Psychology, Education and Health Library, and will be held in Auditorium 130 Christie’s gt 12 (Building 22 on the map).

Map: http://www.uib.no/info/english/visitors/bigcampus.html Marked no. 7 and 22.

Library web pages: http://www.uib.no/ub/realfag/en

Sist endret: 4.4.2011

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