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The Open Scholar Award is open to UBC Vancouver graduate students. Submissions close March 31.

In the this issue of LibFOCUS we celebrate the Lunar New Year and explore UBC Library's Chung Collection.
If you need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work, citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and retrieve your citations in an effective manner, and can also help you in formatting in-text citations and bibliographies in your work. <p> This hands-on workshop introduces briefly the main concepts of citation management and gives detailed instruction for using <a href="http://guides.library.ubc.ca/refworks">RefWorks</a href>, a popular citation management tool licensed by UBC Library.
Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Research Commons staff will help you with your questions about the nuts and bolts of formatting: page layout, numbering, headings, front matter, and more! As well, find out more about the resources that are available to help you in writing your thesis/dissertation. Graduate students at any stage of the writing process are welcome; some prior knowledge of Microsoft Word will be helpful.
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