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Introduction to Open Educational Resources

This short introductory session will provide a brief introduction to Open Educational Resources (OERs): what they are, how they can help meet your teaching and learning goals, and how they can benefit students. The session will also outline supports and resources at the University of Calgary for instructors who are seeking OERs that are appropriate for their classes. After this brief introduction, we'll open the floor to participants, so please come with any questions you have about integrating open resources into your classroom.

Wednesday June 16, 2021, 12:00-12:30 pm. Register via https://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/3605465

Workshop - Reading List Tool: How It Can Help You as an Instructor

The library has licensed a course reading list tool (brand name “Leganto”). It was “soft-launched” over the summer and is now available in D2L to help you create and reuse reading lists and clear your course reserve readings with the Copyright Office. Some benefits of the tool are:

• Copyright clearance from within the tool
• Analytics (what are students reading?)
• Students can comment on the readings individually
• Ability to add to course readings during term (and see if there is auto copyright clearance)

The library is holding a workshop on the Reading List Tool.

Reading List Tool: How It Can Help You as an Instructor

By the end of the workshop, participants will:
•    Create a course reading list using the Reading List Tool.
•    Add references from the library, and from the web.
•    Review analytics to understand how your readings are being used
Session facilitated by: Susan Beatty and Marc Stoeckle

January 28, 2-3pm
https://conted.ucalgary.ca/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=59317582&expandSectionId=59317807&parentSite=TI
Registration Required

“Connection is Not Private” error messages

Several technical issues are giving this error, and library staff are working to troubleshoot. In the meantime, some things to get past this error include: 

1. Use private/incognito mode, or open the link in a private/incognito window or tab
2. Clear browser saved data (cache, cookies, history, logins) 
3. Try opening the link in a different browser
4. Update the browser to the most recent version
   
5. Clear HSTS settings from browsers

If none of the above work, AND the issue is with a UCalgary domain webpage, contact UCIT

If none of the above work, AND the issue is with a library resource, email the library the following information:

• The specific error message (copy and paste the page, including any error messages in the "Advanced" section)
• The URL you are trying to access
• The browser and version used to access the URL
• Type of internet (home, UCalgary)
  

Reading list tool workshop - Friday, November 13, 11AM

 

For those who haven’t been able to attend our previous Reading List workshops, there is one more this Friday at 11!

Register: https://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/3586770

Reading List Tool Session and Drop-in Q&A

The library has licensed a course reading list tool (brand name “Leganto”). It was “soft-launched” over the summer and is now available in D2L to help you create and reuse reading lists and clear your course reserve readings with the Copyright Office. Some benefits of the tool are:
-          Copyright clearance from within the tool
-          Analytics (what are students reading?)
-          Students can comment on the readings individually
-          Ability to add to course readings during term (and see if there is auto copyright clearance) 

The library is holding a workshop and two drop-in sessions on the Reading List Tool.

Reading List Tool: How It Can Help You

Oct 22, 11am-12pm
https://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/3573555
Registration Required

Reading List Tool: Q&A for Faculty/Instructors

Oct 29, 9-10:30am
https://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/3585680

Oct 29, 4-5:30pm
https://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/3585681

No registration required – Zoom link provided on the workshop page.

American Chemical Society partners with leading Societies to support ChemRxiv™

"The American Chemical Society (ACS) today announced its partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry and the German Chemical Society (GDCh) to support the financial and strategic development of ChemRxiv, the premier preprint server for the global chemistry community.
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Authors working across all fields of chemistry are able to post their findings to the server ahead of formal peer review and publication. The service is free of charge, features a streamlined portal for direct and easy submission, and supports a wide variety of file formats.
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More:

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2018/march/acs-partners-with-leading-societies-to-support-chemrxiv.html

BenchSci an "antibody search platform"

BenchSci, a relatively new site (launched July 2017), indexes antibody use in scientific journals, including things like the techniques and tissues involved. It is free, though an institutional email is necessary to sign up for an account; they would like for it to remain free to all academic members. BenchSci is based out of Toronto.

BenchSci is still working with publishers, including Cell Press, to index more content. However, it currently includes SpringerNature, and Wiley, among others, and include many Open Access publications. 

The following blurb is from BenchSci:

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BenchSci is a free online platform designed to help scientists find antibodies from publications. Their proprietary machine-learning algorithm was trained by PhD-level scientists to identify and understand the usage of commercial antibodies in the research literature.

When searching for a specific protein target, BenchSci curates published data in the form of figures to simplify the literature search process. The figures can then be filtered by specific experimental contexts cited in the paper such as techniques, tissue, cell lines, and more, to help users pinpoint antibodies that have been published under experimental conditions matching their study interest.

For more information about BenchSci, please refer to this article: https://blog.benchsci.com/7-features-to-find-antibodies

To learn how to navigate BenchSci, please watch this short video: https://youtu.be/EFaDwTtqlv4

For further inquiries or feedback, contact Maurice Shen, PhD, the Head of Academic Relations at BenchSci, at maurice@benchsci.com

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