• Effective Presentations from the Kansas University Medical Center, includes short online tutorials on creating an effective poster. It also has links to other poster-preparation sites.
  
  
• Creating Posters for Humanities and Social Sciences gives a good explanation of why posters are often the best way to communicate results of research or experiential learning in social sciences and humanities. It includes a diagram of typical poster layout.
  
  
• The University of Maryland's own Gemstone Program has put together a web page with instructions for their teams on how to prepare posters.
  
  
• The University of Buffalo's Library has put together a site on Designing Effective Poster Presentations that concentrates on scientific posters but has good hints.
  
  
• Kinko's Copy Center's website Kinkos.com has a page of good ideas on creating posters that will help you whether or not you are using a commercial copy service to create your poster.
  
  
• If you are feeling really ambitious and want to produce a professional-quality poster, take a look at the services offered by the campus Visualization Presentation Lab . You can use Adobe Illustrator to create files and have them printed at the VPL.

• American Psychological Association (APA) poster presentation guidelines are summarized by Psi Chi, the national honor society in psychology.
  
  
• International Studies Association
  
  
• American Political Science Association .
  
  
• American Anthropological Association .

• Scientist's Guide to Poster Presentations MCK STACKS Q179.94 .G47 1999. Useful even if your poster isn't on a scientific subject, because the science community has done a lot of thinking about what makes a good poster.
  
  
• How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper . Available as an e-book through the Libraries' subscription to Netlibrary . Also available in hardcopy at ENGIN REF T11.D33 1998.

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