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. Creating Effective Poster Presentations This website created by three American science professors provides a comprehensive, yet concise, overview of how to create effective posters from defining your message, to planning your poster, to your poster's aesthetics, to how to effectively present your poster during the session. If you are only going to visit one resource on creating your poster, make it this one. Designing Conference Posters 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. Design of Scientific Posters 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. Impactful Scientific Posters - The Basics This short video from the American Chemical Society is a good introduction to creating effective posters. Image Sources Make sure to give credit for images by citing them using the same citation style as the rest of your poster. Pics4Learning Google Advanced Image Search 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. Wikimedia Commons All of the images on Wikimedia Commons are freely usable. For more information, please visit this page on reusing content outside Wikimedia. Flickr Creative Commons 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 Google Fonts How to embed Google Fonts into PowerPoint How to add google fonts to Google Slides Templates BetterPoster Templates Free Research Poster PowerPoint Templates Free PowerPoint Scientific Research Poster Templates DesignCap for designing a research poster Places to Publish Posters f1000 Science Open