Category: Working with sources Purpose: General Interest Audience(s): Undergraduate student WebsitesResearch Posters: Creation, Design, & Best PracticesA 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 languageThis 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 OntarioA step-by-step guide to creating academic posters including design tips and free resources.Designing Conference PostersThis 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 PostersThis webpage by Michael Alley, an Associate Professor of Engineering Communication at Penn State, is short on text but long on examples and PowerPoint templatesUniversity of Michigan Poster PresentationsThe above guide includes How-To and Poster SamplesArticle: Ten Simple Rules for a Poster PresentationPoster Blog - Better PostersUniversity of Alabama Poster Presentation for Undergraduate StudentsVideosHow to Present an Academic Research PosterThis video teaches you how to present your poster during a session.Impactful Scientific Posters - The BasicsThis short video from the American Chemical Society is a good introduction to creating effective posters.Image SourcesMake sure to give credit for images by citing them using the same citation style as the rest of your poster.Pics4LearningGoogle Advanced Image SearchGoogle 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 CommonsAll of the images on Wikimedia Commons are freely usable. For more information, please visit this page on reusing content outside Wikimedia.Flickr Creative CommonsMany photographs on Flickr are available for use under a Creative Commons license.Free Icons by The Noun ProjectMake your own infographic using Piktochart or CanvaFontsGoogle FontsHow to add google fonts to Google SlidesTemplatesBetterPoster TemplatesFree Research Poster PowerPoint TemplatesDesignCap for designing a research posterPlaces to Publish Postersf1000Science Open