Comments on: ProQuest Creates A Q&A Community For Grad Students http://acrlog.org/2009/01/30/proquest-creates-a-qa-community-for-grad-students/ Blogging by and for academic and research librarians Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:32:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt http://acrlog.org/2009/01/30/proquest-creates-a-qa-community-for-grad-students/comment-page-1/#comment-113959 Matt Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:18:38 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=1316#comment-113959 I've been very excited about the potentials of GradShare as a grad student. So excited that when GradShare didn't open I contacted them. It was supposed to open to the general graduate student public on Feb 6th. However, it has been postponed until next Monday, the 16th. Here's a post about it: http://interrobangblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/update-gradshare-opening-postponed.html I’ve been very excited about the potentials of GradShare as a grad student. So excited that when GradShare didn’t open I contacted them. It was supposed to open to the general graduate student public on Feb 6th. However, it has been postponed until next Monday, the 16th.

Here’s a post about it:

http://interrobangblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/update-gradshare-opening-postponed.html

]]> By: ditch EBSCO and ProQuest | Tim's Thoughts http://acrlog.org/2009/01/30/proquest-creates-a-qa-community-for-grad-students/comment-page-1/#comment-113941 ditch EBSCO and ProQuest | Tim's Thoughts Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:02:13 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=1316#comment-113941 [...] and ProQuest are easy to use to find PDFs of research journal articles, however, their PDFs are very large, and [...] [...] and ProQuest are easy to use to find PDFs of research journal articles, however, their PDFs are very large, and [...]

]]> By: Deborah http://acrlog.org/2009/01/30/proquest-creates-a-qa-community-for-grad-students/comment-page-1/#comment-113418 Deborah Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:48:35 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=1316#comment-113418 At MSU, we've long placed an emphasis on graduate student information literacy and defined that in the broadest terms. Our most popular workshop series is the Survival Skills for Graduate Students workshops. Open to all graduate students (or anyone else for that matter!) some departments will request their own sessions or require their students to attend the series prior to sitting for comps. Over the years, the topics have expanded---often at the request of graduate students. For example, we added a publishing workshop at graduate students request because many of them are being strongly encouraged (or even required) to publish prior to graduation. I've recently migrated the content to a libguides format. Eventually, there will be a separate tab for each workshop but for now, we have the basic information available as well as past workshop materials and podcasts. http://guides.library.msstate.edu/ssfgs Deborah Lee Mississippi State University Libraries At MSU, we’ve long placed an emphasis on graduate student information literacy and defined that in the broadest terms. Our most popular workshop series is the Survival Skills for Graduate Students workshops. Open to all graduate students (or anyone else for that matter!) some departments will request their own sessions or require their students to attend the series prior to sitting for comps. Over the years, the topics have expanded—often at the request of graduate students. For example, we added a publishing workshop at graduate students request because many of them are being strongly encouraged (or even required) to publish prior to graduation.

I’ve recently migrated the content to a libguides format. Eventually, there will be a separate tab for each workshop but for now, we have the basic information available as well as past workshop materials and podcasts.

http://guides.library.msstate.edu/ssfgs

Deborah Lee
Mississippi State University Libraries

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