EndNote is a reference management tool that allows you to easily gather, organize, and insert your references in the style of your choice. This free, hands-on session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format citations. Our next session is: Tuesday, July 8, 11 am-12 pm Location: Hardin Library EAST InformationContinue reading “Get Free Help Using EndNote to Manage Citations”
Category Archives: Hardin Library Staff
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, July 2014: Nathaniel Highmore
Nathaniel Highmore (1613-1685) Corporis Humani Disquisitio Anatomica The Hague: Ex oficina Samuelis Brown, 1651. [Image via Fisher Library Digital Collections, University of Toronto]. Nathaniel Highmore of Dorset, England was a British surgeon known for his 1651 treatise on anatomy, the first of its kind to give an accurate account of the circulatory system. Highmore studiedContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, July 2014: Nathaniel Highmore”
How to Determine Your Scholarly Impact: Learn HOW
Hardin Open Workshops is offering a hands-on class to teach participants how to use tools such as Ulrich’s, Journal Citation Reports, Web of Science, and Scopus to determine the impact that journals, articles, and authors have had on a particular field. Topics such as impact factors, Eigenfactors, and H-indices will also be discussed. HOW workshopsContinue reading “How to Determine Your Scholarly Impact: Learn HOW”
Collect and Format Bibliographic Citations with our free EndNote Workshop
EndNote is a reference management tool that allows you to easily gather, organize, and insert your references in the style of your choice. This free, hands-on session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format citations. Our next session is: Friday, June 20, 1-2 pm Location: Hardin Library EAST Information CommonsContinue reading “Collect and Format Bibliographic Citations with our free EndNote Workshop”
Hardin Deputy Director Lawrence wins MLA Beatty Volunteer Service Award
Janna Lawrence, Deputy Director of Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, was awarded the 2014 Virginia L. and William K. Beatty Medical Library Association (MLA) Volunteer Service award on May 20 at the MLA Annual Conference in Chicago. The award was established in 2007 to recognizes a medical librarian who has demonstrated outstanding, sustained serviceContinue reading “Hardin Deputy Director Lawrence wins MLA Beatty Volunteer Service Award”
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, May 2014: Jean Étienne Dominique Esquirol
Jean Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772-1840) Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médicolégal. 2 vols. Brussels : J.B. Tircher, 1838. Esquirol’s drawing of an inmate of Bethlem Hospital. As Pinel’s most outstanding pupil, Esquirol so closely followed his teacher’s works that the contributions of the two men are sometimes confused. Like Pinel, EsquirolContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, May 2014: Jean Étienne Dominique Esquirol”
Workshop : How to Determine Your Scholarly Impact, Thursday May 15 @Hardin
This class will teach participants how to use tools such as Ulrich’s, Journal Citation Reports, Web of Science, and Scopus to determine the impact that journals, articles, and authors have had on a particular field. Topics such as impact factors, Eigenfactors, and H-indices will also be discussed. HOW workshops are hands-on and free for UIContinue reading “Workshop : How to Determine Your Scholarly Impact, Thursday May 15 @Hardin”
Find Relevant Articles Fast with PubMed Express
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to the medical literature and includes over 22 million bibliographic citations in life sciences. This 30-minute session will show you how to find relevant articles fast using some of the basic features in PubMed. This session is hands-on and free for UI students and affiliates. Our nextContinue reading “Find Relevant Articles Fast with PubMed Express”
Introduction to NCBI Databases
This session provides an overview of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) databases that contain protein related information. Learn how to search for protein sequences, conserved protein domains, sequence similarity-based protein clusters and experimentally-determined bimolecular structures. Our next session is: Tuesday, April 29, 9-10 am Location: Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, Information CommonsContinue reading “Introduction to NCBI Databases”
Learn to Navigate NCBI Gene and Protein Databases with Our New Open Workshop
Overwhelmed by the number of databases that the National Center for Biotechnology Information has to offer on nucleotide sequences, genes and proteins? Wondering which database you should always start with? Would you like to learn how to set up an NCBI account to link articles in PubMed to records in other databases? Do you knowContinue reading “Learn to Navigate NCBI Gene and Protein Databases with Our New Open Workshop”