Graduate Literature Review Workshops

For those of you CEAS graduate students who may have missed my previous two literature review workshops this semester, I will be offering two more.  The next one takes place this coming Thursday afternoon November 20, in room C-224 at Parkview from 3-4 pm.  (Note: I originally advertised this as running from 3-4:30pm but I have a scheduling conflict, so this workshop is 1 hour only.)

You can register for this workshop here: https://herodotus.walwood.wmich.edu/litreview112008/

I am also offering one more evening workshop on Tuesday December 2 from 7-8:30 pm in computer room C-228 at Parkview.  You can register for this workshop here: https://herodotus.walwood.wmich.edu/litreview120208/

I will be covering how to approach the library research for your literature review and highlight very important library resources and services that are designed to make your research easier and more effective.

I hope to see you there.

CSA Illustrata: Technology Free Trial

Waldo Library is currently running a free trial of a technology database called CSA Illustrata: Technology Abstracts that retrieves thumbnails of tables, figures, and charts from journal articles. This enables you to zero in on articles that have data that you are looking for. (Note: not all the charts are immediately accessible in full text online – in many cases, you still need to track the actual article down.)

If you are interested in checking this revolutionary new search tool out, please go to the following Library proxied link (where you will be prompted for your BroncoNet ID and password):

CSA Illustrata: Technology Abstracts

Searchable database of tables, figures, charts, and other illustrations within scholarly articles. Retrieves illustrations with caption and label text. Includes more than a million illustrations, charts, graphs, maps, and other figures from more than 2000 journals in architecture, computer science, engineering, materials science and more. Coverage from 2003 to date.

Trial ends: November 30, 2008

These has been added to the Trials web page at http://www.wmich.edu/library/sg/358/6808/

Users can also connect to this trial resource through the New and Trial resources blog located at:
http://libsocial.library.wmich.edu/drupal-5.2/?q=blog/26

43rd Senior Engineering Design Conference

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences will hold its Fall 2008 Conference on Senior Engineering Design at the Parkview Campus from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday December 2, 2008.  This Fall’s conference will feature 36 presentations by senior design students in all CEAS departments.

You can download of a copy of the brochure from the CEAS Senior Design Conference website.