S&E Library Workshops
Patents and Patent SearchingLearn how patents protect your intellectual property and what rights they confer. Find out about the basics of the patent application process, how to read and interpret patent documents, and why international patents matter. Learn what UCSD Technology Transfer Office can do for inventors. Finally, learn how to search for patents using free web databases offered by the US Patent & Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, Google Patents and more. Even if you don't have an invention on the drawing board, learn how to search patents for the valuable, cutting edge scientific and technical information they contain.
Staff & faculty register through UC Learning Center. Search on "patents" in the search box.
Students register by contacting Susan Shepherd
Location: Geisel Library East Wing, 2nd Floor, Instruction Room
Time:
Oct. 30, 2012, 10:00 am - noon
Jan. 24, 2013, 1:00-3:00 pm
April 17, 2013, 10:00 am - noon
July 9, 2013, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Faculty CV Clinic
Learn ways to find out when and where your faculty is publishing, and who is citing their papers. By setting up author alerts in article databases available through the UCSD Libraries, you can be notified every time a new paper by your faculty is published. You can even find out how many times their papers have been cited by other authors.
Topics covered include:
- The Web of Science Database - what is it?
- Discover other article databases appropriate to your discipline
- How to set up author alerts (be notified by email every time your faculty publishes a new paper)
- How to do a cited reference search (find out what other scholars are citing your faculty's papers)
- How to find out a journal's "Impact Factor", or the measure of its importance relative to other journals in the same field
Staff & faculty register through UC Learning Center. Search on "faculty cv clinic" in the search box.
Location: Geisel Library East Wing, 2nd Floor, Instruction Room
Time:
July 17, 2013, 10:00 - 11:30 am
August 13, 2013, 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Consultation
We're here to help you identify, locate and get the most out of information resources...anytime. Please contact one of the librarians in your subject areas to schedule an individual consultation, or to arrange a training session for your class or research group.
For all other questions and requests: contact Susan Shepherd, 534-2480.
