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PREPARING TO PRESENT OR PUBLISH

The Veterinary Medicine Library Staff is happy to help you prepare to present or publish. We support you in reviewing the literature, tracking down materials, managing references, identifying meetings or journals through which to disseminate your work, and providing resources for creating effective presentations and publications.

Preparing to Publish

• Reflections on Writing Scientific Articles (Power Point Presentation) - Thierry Olivry, DrVet, PhD, NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine, June 4, 2008.
• Bibliographic Management Software: The Library provides the web-based RefWorks program. We can also help with EndNote and EndNoteWeb
• Finding Impact Factors: Journal Citation Reports
• Retaining Rights to Use Your Works - NCSU Scholarly Communication Center.

Poster Design, Production, and Presentation

• Creating Effective Poster Presentations - NCSU. A site "intended to help poster presenters avoid common problems that will obscure their messages."
• Advice on Designing Scientific Posters - An informative and entertaining guide from Swarthmore College. Includes advice on poster design and content, as well as tips for presenters.
• Poster Layout (Word document). Tutorial by Herman Berkhoff of the NCSU Libraries' Digital Media Lab. Uses full color examples to teach the viewer how to analyze the effectiveness of a poster's design and layout. Also includes some basic poster production tips.
• Poster Toolkit - NCSU Libraries
• Presentation Toolkit - NCSU Libraries
• Digital Media Lab. NCSU D.H. Hill Library. [large format plotter printing available]
• Logos and official colors - Download print-quality NC State general logos. Review official colors and other general NCSU images. For College of Veterinary Medicine logos, contact Biomedical Communications - NCSU CVM

Writing and Speaking

• Paper Writing Toolkit - NCSU Libraries
• Writing and Speaking Tutorial Services - NCSU

Visit the VML's CVM Instruction Support page for other educational materials.

Contact Veterinary Medicine Library Staff for support with exploring any of the resources mentioned above, or other questions you might have.