PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to 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. Our next session: Tuesday, October 1 12-12:30 pm (Location: East Information Commons, Hardin Library)Continue reading “Find Relevant Articles Fast with PubMed Express 1/2 hour class Tuesday, October 1”
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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”
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”
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. Tuesday, September 17th from 1-1:30 pm (Location: East Information Commons) Register online hereContinue reading “PubMed Express”
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”
EXAM MASTER® Upgrades Scheduled on June 23 &24
An upgrade for EXAM MASTER® has been scheduled over this weekend. You will not be able to login to your account from about 11:00 PM Saturday, June 22 (CDT) to 6:00 AM Monday June 24 (CDT). Your registered email address and password will remain the same, but remember to update your URL bookmark to uiowa.myexammaster.comContinue reading “EXAM MASTER® Upgrades Scheduled on June 23 &24”
Learn to speed up your research with Scopus! Free workshop at Hardin Library, Tuesday, February 19
Scopus is a multidisciplinary database with substantial international coverage. All citations that are in EMBASE are also in Scopus. Scopus also allows you to measure an author’s scholarly impact and to track an article’s cited and citing references. Come to this hands-on session and learn more! Our next session is Tuesday, Feb 19th from 1:00-2:00pmContinue reading “Learn to speed up your research with Scopus! Free workshop at Hardin Library, Tuesday, February 19”
Learn how to find impact factors using Web of Science at our class October 23
Web of Science is a citation database which covers over 10,000 journals. Web of Science specializes in citation tracking so this hands-on session will concentrate on how to do cited reference searches to find articles that cite your work. The session also demonstrates how to use the Journal Citation Index and find Impact Factors forContinue reading “Learn how to find impact factors using Web of Science at our class October 23”
Behavioral Health clinical scenarios and cases video resource on trial until October 31
Symptom Media’s expanding behavioral health training library is guided by the DSM-IV-TR, incorporating the symptoms into a concise clinical vignette that promotes critical thinking and allows for discussion and analysis of symptoms. The purpose of this tool is for “symptom recognition” and includes military centric scenarios. Interested in trying it out? Go toContinue reading “Behavioral Health clinical scenarios and cases video resource on trial until October 31”