Resources at UTEP

Thank you for the many ideas on resources available on campus that have helped you. These suggestions will help others as well, I'm sure.

1) Electronic databases such as ISI Web of Science and Pub Med are wonderful. Learn how to search effectively using these database tools and they can be very helpful. The librarians will teach you how.
2) Career Services will work with you on your resume.
3) Check the “Job Mine” website
4) Learn how to use RefWorks or EndNote to create literature databases for each of your research projects. Check the UTEP library website or Endnote’s site, http://www.endnote.com/ because if you are not using these tools in your writing, you are wasting a lot of time.
5) Going to the library to make copies of articles is inconvenient; not all articles have full-text online copies. The UT-TeleCampus digital library is a much better resource for online copies.
6) You have to pay for the interlibrary loan service, but it’s not too expensive. Just make sure you really need the article.
7) If you want to survey your class use Survey Monkey. The free version allows 10 questions and 100 responses and it’s easy to set up, http://www.surveymonkey.com/Home_Pricing.aspx
8) Mspace is a useful place to store documents you may need when you are away from home or campus.
9) Check into Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) and attend their conferences on preparing future faculty.
10) http://www.pubmed.gov/ is a helpful tool as are other niche sites within your discipline such as http://www.diabetes.org/ and others.
11) Don’t forget Google Scholar, Bing, and other discipline specific sites such as http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ to get started with your searches.
12) The UTEP Writing Center is a place you should definitely visit.
13) The Disabled Student Services Offices can be of great help, and can set you up with helpful software such as Dragon speech recognition software http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/
14) A few more databases: WorldCat (World Catalog), IIMP (International Index to Music Periodicals), Academic Search Complete, ProQuest, and JSTOR (Journal Storage). ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), PsychInfo and Proquest for dissertations and theses.
15) The CETaL and ORSP workshops have been helpful, especially on how to use rubrics to grade more efficiently and effectively.
16) YouTube has a wealth of science-related instructional videos on topics such as micropipetting, cell cultures techniques, and others. Great tools to help students in lab sections.
17) Build and tap into your networks through attending seminars, workshops, meetings, visiting with colleagues and faculty in your area and outside.
18) Instructional Support Services can help with instructional technologies and supports “i-Peer” which allows students on teams to evaluate each other’s team work behavior anonymously
19) The UTEP-VPN login allows you to access your UTEP computer and resources from off-campus sites.
20) Goldmine has been a great resources to make registering and paying for classes online easy.
21) The UTEP license for Turnitin (turnitin.com) is helpful in allowing students to submit their papers to check for plagiarism before they turn it in for a grade.
22) You may also want to check into the support program Human Resources offers. You will be surprised. http://admin.utep.edu/Default.aspx?alias=admin.utep.edu/hr