PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to the medical literature and includes over 26 million bibliographic citations in life sciences. This one-hour session will show you how to improve your search results by using subject headings (MeSH) and advanced keyword searching techniques. Our Spring workshops: Thursday, February 8th, 10:00-11:00am, East Commons Tuesday, MarchContinue reading “PubMed Workshops | Beginning Thursday, Feb. 8, 10-11am”
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Hardin Open Workshops : Learn Systematic Reviews, PubMed, EndNote, Open Refine and More
Hardin Open Workshops are free and anyone may register online at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/workshop/ Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program please call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.
Tour & Get Health Sciences Mobile Resources | Tues., January 30, 10-11am
Take a tour of some new (and some well-established) apps for your mobile device or smart phone! At this informal brown bag technology meeting, you’ll not only be shown a variety of tools for both academic and clinical use but also invited to share your own examples and experiences. Tuesday, January 30, 10-11am, Information CommonsContinue reading “Tour & Get Health Sciences Mobile Resources | Tues., January 30, 10-11am”
Learn APA Style | Workshop Wed., January 31, 12pm-1pm
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) provides guidelines for formatting papers/manuscripts followed by nursing and most allied health sciences disciplines. In this hands-on session, attendees will have the opportunity to learn basic rules of APA formatting as well as gain experience applying APA formatting to journal, book, and web references. ResourcesContinue reading “Learn APA Style | Workshop Wed., January 31, 12pm-1pm”
Meet the Expert: Mirko von Elstermann, Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences Librarian
Mirko von Elstermann, Biomedical Sciences Librarian Ph.D., Physiology M.Sc., Biology M.A., Philosophy (all from the University of Cologne, Germany) M.A.S., Library & Information Sciences (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Three years biomedical publishing experience Areas of expertise: Project consultation, teaching and training Literature and information searching in biomedicine Impact of research and researchers Biomedical publishing trends;Continue reading “Meet the Expert: Mirko von Elstermann, Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences Librarian”
Ancient Surgery in Early Modern Italy | History of Medicine Lecture | January 25, 5:30pm
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to a lecture by Marquis Berrey, Associate Professor in Classics, University of Iowa Ancient Surgery in Early Modern Italy: Celsus, Benivieni, Morgagni Thursday, January 25, 2018, 5:30-6:30 MERF Room 2117 (Medical Education and Research Facility) European medical professionals from the 15th through the early 19thContinue reading “Ancient Surgery in Early Modern Italy | History of Medicine Lecture | January 25, 5:30pm”
Faculty Calculate Your Scholarly Impact, Impact Factors | Workshop Tuesday, Jan. 23
This hands-on workshop will give attendees an overview of traditional and recent ways to measure scholarly impact of journals, individual researchers, and articles. Afterward, it will be clearer how different ‘impact factors’ now offered both by the Web of Science and Scopus are determined. We will discuss the features of these factors as wellContinue reading “Faculty Calculate Your Scholarly Impact, Impact Factors | Workshop Tuesday, Jan. 23”
Graduate Students & Faculty | Manage Your Citations Efficiently with EndNote | Free workshops this Spring
EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather together your references in one place, organize them, and then insert them into papers and format them in a style of your choosing. This session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format your citations. The class willContinue reading “Graduate Students & Faculty | Manage Your Citations Efficiently with EndNote | Free workshops this Spring”
Sam Watson, MLIS | Outreach Specialist | National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region
Meet Sam Watson, Outreach Specialist for the National Library of Medicine-Greater Midwest Region. As a late comer to the library field, I’m still grooming my information professional pedigree. I bring with me an academic librarian instruction and science liaison experience from my time at Knox College and an MLIS degree from my fledgling librarian yearsContinue reading “Sam Watson, MLIS | Outreach Specialist | National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region”
Library closed Monday, January 15 for MLK Holiday | Regular hours resume January 16
The Hardin Library will be closed on Monday, January 15 for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Regular hours resume Tuesday, January 16.