Creating Poster Presentations for the Sciences
Category: Working with sources
Purpose: General Interest
Audience(s): Undergraduate student
Websites
Research Posters: Creation, Design, & Best Practices
A libguide from the University of Toronto.
Creating an Effective Scientific Poster [PDF]
This document was adapted from work by the University of Guelph Teaching Support Services and the Environmental Biology Graphic Studio, and prepared by Jennifer L. Spall. This is an excellent, linear guide to preparing a scientific poster and is appropriate for undergraduate students.
Research Posters: Concisely tell the story of your research with visual language
This guide from The University of Notre Dame presents a straight-forward approach to designing a poster through a minimalist interface and the option of using it as a digital "to do" list when working on the creation of a research poster.
Academic Posters Module by The Learning Portal: College Libraries Ontario
A step-by-step guide to creating academic posters including design tips and free resources.
This webpage by former evolutionary biologist and current photographer Colin Purrington, reads like a long, humourous, but exceedingly useful essay on poster design, both good and bad. He offers novel ideas for attracting attention to your poster, as well as a number of PowerPoint and OpenOffice poster templates.
This webpage by Michael Alley, an Associate Professor of Engineering Communication at Penn State, is short on text but long on examples and PowerPoint templates
University of Michigan Poster Presentations
The above guide includes How-To and Poster Samples
Article: Ten Simple Rules for a Poster Presentation
Poster Blog - Better Posters
University of Alabama Poster Presentation for Undergraduate Students
Videos
How to Present an Academic Research Poster
This video teaches you how to present your poster during a session.
Image Sources
Make sure to give credit for images by citing them using the same citation style as the rest of your poster.
Google Advanced Image Search allows you to limit results by usage rights. Choose "free to use or share" to make sure you may use the retrieved images on your poster.
All of the images on Wikimedia Commons are freely usable. For more information, please visit this page on reusing content outside Wikimedia.
Many photographs on Flickr are available for use under a Creative Commons license.
Free Icons by The Noun Project
Make your own infographic using Piktochart or Canva
Fonts
Templates
- BetterPoster Templates
- Free Research Poster PowerPoint Templates
- DesignCap for designing a research poster