http://info.pop.psu.edu Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:38:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The PRI Library (707 Oswald) will be closed Nov. 26 and 27 for the Thanksgiving holiday. We will be open normal hours Nov. 23-25. If you have after-hours access to the library, you will be able to access the library as usual over the holiday. Please make sure you ... http://info.pop.psu.edu/2009/11/23/pri-library-thanksgiving-hours/ Due to high demand, a second Literature Searching workshop has been added to our fall schedule. See the complete schedule at help.pop.psu.edu/workshops. http://info.pop.psu.edu/2009/09/30/second-literature-searching-workshop-added-to-schedule/ Penn State University Libraries has trial access to Elsevier's Scopus database, a competitor to ISI's Web of Science, through the middle of August. You are invited to try out the database and let your librarian know what you think. For more information, see the Penn State Life Sciences Library blog post. http://info.pop.psu.edu/2009/07/29/scopus-trial/ Due to high demand, I've added a second poster design workshop to the PRI Workshop Series. This will be a hands-on workshop walking you through the basic steps of creating a poster. We'll focus on using Illustrator, but I will be prepared to demonstrate in PowerPoint as well. The workshop will ... http://info.pop.psu.edu/2009/02/04/poster-design-workshop-added/ According to a blog post from Penn State's Life Sciences Library, most Taylor & Francis journals are no longer available online to the Penn State community because Penn State could not reach a satisfactory licensing agreement with the publisher. Population Studies: A Journal of Demography is still available online and in ... http://info.pop.psu.edu/2009/01/29/most-taylor-francis-journals-no-longer-available-online/ The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it will check applications, proposals, and progress reports to ensure compliance with the Public Access Policy that went into effect in April. From the NIH Extramural Nexus: Starting this month, NIH will be stepping up its efforts to ensure compliance for ... http://info.pop.psu.edu/2008/11/04/nih-to-step-up-public-access-policy-compliance-efforts/ The Social Sciences Library is offering a workshop on OECD.Stat on Nov. 14. Kathleen DeBoer, from the OECD Washington Office, will present a 2 hour, hands-on training session on using the statistical resource OECD.Stat. OECD.Stat enables users to search for and extract data from across OECD’s many databases included in SourceOECD ... http://info.pop.psu.edu/2008/10/30/oecd-stat-training/ The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a reminder about the Public Access Policy, how investigators should demonstrate compliance, and how the NIH will monitor compliance. Penn State University Libraries is offering training on the Public Access mandate this Thurs., Oct. 9. The Population Research Institute also offers a guide to ... http://info.pop.psu.edu/2008/10/06/nih-public-access-policy-reminders/ On Thursday, October 9, a training session will examine copyright issues leading to the Open Access movement and the NIH Public Access Mandate as well as provide an explanation of the manuscript submission process and an overview of the copyright addendum, approved by University counsel, to be used with a ... http://info.pop.psu.edu/2008/09/16/university-libraries-to-offer-nih-public-access-training/ The PRI Information Core is offering 2 workshops as part of the PRI Workshop Series this semester: Locating Demographic Literature will introduce you to the bibliographic databases commonly used in demography and how to locate full text of papers. Finding Demographic Data will show you how to locate and access secondary data ... http://info.pop.psu.edu/2008/09/08/information-core-workshops/