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Copyright and Your Research and Publishing
Location: Video Theater, 2712, 2nd Floor, South Tower
Time: 9:55 – 10:40am
Presenter: Liz Hamilton, Intellectual Property Specialist
What do you need to know about managing your own copyrights and navigating use of copyrighted material in your research? Throughout your career at Northwestern, you will be creating material to which you own the copyright: presentations, papers, digital media, reviews, articles, and your dissertation. You may also want to use others’ copyrighted material in your work. This session will help you understand the basics of copyright, what and how it protects, when to ask for permission, and how to prepare to publish your book or article. The basics of a publishing agreement and a brief introduction to open access and other emerging publishing models will be included.
Hidden in Plain Sight: An Introduction to the Center for Research Libraries and the HathiTrust Digital Library
Location: Lower Level, B238
Time: 9:55 – 10:40am
Presenters: Harriet Lightman, Liaison for History & American Studies; Geoff Morse, Research Services Manager and Liaison for Religious Studies and Linguistics
In this session, instructors will uncover some of the wealth of resources available in two repositories of primary source materials: the HathiTrust Digital Library, and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). Topics include the search functions and contents of HathiTrust, including tips on setting up a Hathi “collection,” distinguishing between full text and partial view, and the importance of logging in. The rich resources available via CRL will be reviewed, including tips on searching the CRL catalog, finding topic guides, searching for foreign dissertations, and more.
Navigating the Secret World of Archives
Location: Forum Room, 2799, 2nd Floor, South Tower
Time: 9:55 – 10:40am
Presenter: Janet Olson, Assistant University Archivist
Personal papers, institutional records, documents, historic photos, and other primary sources are crucial to research in most humanities and social sciences fields. However, these unique materials can be difficult to track down—whether in digital or in physical format–because they are organized, indexed, and accessed very differently from books and periodicals. This session will serve as your personal GPS, helping you find your way to elusive archival and manuscript collections through NUL databases and other resources, and steering you through the next steps of successful primary source research.
Take a Demographics High Dive
Location: Lower Level, B234
Time: 9:55 – 10:40am
Presenter: John Hernandez, Web & Mobile Services Librarian and Liaison for Economics, Counseling, Latino/a Studies
Does your research explore questions about how people live, work, play, worship, etc.? Need to find numbers on population, racial or ethnic groups, employment, education, healthcare, religious affiliation, consumer behavior or voting (just to name a few)? Join us for a fast-paced overview of sources for demographic information that covers a wide variety of topics. Get advice on where to start looking, including major statistical resource indexes and government agencies. Gain understanding about when you need top level numbers as opposed to response-level survey data. Find out what numbers are tabulated at the national, state, or local levels. Learn a little about what numbers are publicly available and what may require special permission or need to be purchased. While most of the sources we touch on will cover the United States, some tips on foreign and international sources will also be offered. No experience with statistics or data analysis needed.