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Twitter for the Health Sciences

Twitter is more than just a social media tool. It has developed into a vibrant real-time information network used by health care providers, scholars, and scientists. Come to this hands-on session to learn the basics of twitter, advanced techniques such as searching, and examples of its use in the Health Sciences. Our next session: Monday,Continue reading “Twitter for the Health Sciences”

Open Access Week : October 21-27

Open Access makes scholarship more accessible.  Celebrate Open Access Week with our activities including a lecture and panel discussion:  http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/openaccess/  What is Open Access? Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author orContinue reading “Open Access Week : October 21-27”

Rebalancing Health Care in the Heartland Conference in Des Moines on October 15

The Hardin Library is a sponsor of the forum: Rebalancing Health Care in the Heartland 6 : Public-Private Sector Strategies The forum will be held in Des Moines, from 8am-3pm, Tuesday, October 15.  The forum is non-artisan and focuses on significant health-related changes, challenges and opportunities within the State of Iowa.  For more information orContinue reading “Rebalancing Health Care in the Heartland Conference in Des Moines on October 15”

Don’t Procrastinate– Get Organized with Our Workshop Tomorrow!

Are PDFs scattered all over your computer with names that you cannot pronounce? Want to create an organized, clearly named, and Internet-accessible personal library? This hands-on session will show you how using free tools such as Mendeley and Dropbox as well as commercial tools such as EndNote and RefWorks.  Attendees are encouraged to bring aContinue reading “Don’t Procrastinate– Get Organized with Our Workshop Tomorrow!”

Literature Searching for a Systematic Review Free class Friday 10-11am

This class will focus on tips and techniques for carrying out a successful literature search in support of a systematic review. Topics will include techniques for developing search strategies, deciding which databases to search and how to seek out grey literature for a given topic. There will also be discussion on selecting journals for handContinue reading “Literature Searching for a Systematic Review Free class Friday 10-11am”

Find High Quality Health Literature with CINAHL – Free class Thursday Noon-1pm

This hands-on session will demonstrate how to use CINAHL effectively to find high quality nursing and allied health literature. An explanation and demonstration of how to select the most appropriate search terms will be provided. Search practice will be conducted at the end of the session to reinforce what was demonstrated. Anyone who has anContinue reading “Find High Quality Health Literature with CINAHL – Free class Thursday Noon-1pm”

Save Time Writing Your Next Paper with RefWorks Wednesday Sept. 24 3-4pm

Want some help writing your next paper?  Come to Hardin Library’s class on RefWorks and learn about this web-based bibliographic management tool.  You’ll learn: how to import citations from PubMed how to enter references how to create a quick bibliography how to add end and foot notes using Write-n-Cite Our next session is: Wednesday, September 25th, 3-4Continue reading “Save Time Writing Your Next Paper with RefWorks Wednesday Sept. 24 3-4pm”

PubMed: Going Beyond the Basics

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to medical literature and includes over 17 million bibliographic citations in life sciences. This 1-hour session will show you how to improve your search results by using subject headings (MeSH) and advanced keyword searching techniques. Our next session is Tuesday, September 24th, 1-2 pm (Location: East Information Commons) RegisterContinue reading “PubMed: Going Beyond the Basics”

Learn more about Scopus & Web of Science at our workshop on Monday, September 16th

Scopus & Web of Science are databases that can help you measure scholarly impact, track an article’s cited and citing references, and find articles easily for research or systematic review. This session is hands-on. Our next session is Monday, September 16th, 10-11 am (Location: East Information Commons) Register online here or by calling 319-335-9151. NeedContinue reading “Learn more about Scopus & Web of Science at our workshop on Monday, September 16th”

Tips for Searching for Gene, Genome & Protein Information

The National Center for Biotechnology Information has a number of data bases to offer on nucleotide sequences, genes and proteins. Learn how to start researching them in this 1-hour session. Our next session is Tuesday, September 17th from 10-11 am (Location: East Information Commons) Register online here or by calling 319-335-9151. No time for class? Continue reading “Tips for Searching for Gene, Genome & Protein Information”