Introduction to standards and specifications. Learn how to access a wide variety of standards including ASTM, ISO, ADA, NFPA (Fluid), and the US Code of Federal Regulations. Featuring a new database, TechStreet, to gain electronic access to these standards and more. Our next session is Tuesday, September 29th, 3:00-4:00pm, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences,Continue reading “Learn to find ASTM, ISO, ADA, NFPA standards |@Hardin Library| Tuesday, Sept. 29, 3-4pm”
Category Archives: Workshops
Get an introduction to American Psychological Association Style |@Hardin Library| Sept. 30, Noon-1pm
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) provides guidelines for formatting papers or manuscripts used by nursing, social sciences, and most allied health sciences disciplines. In this hands on session, you will learn basic rules of APA formatting as well as gain experience applying APA formatting to journal, book, and web references. Resources for future referralContinue reading “Get an introduction to American Psychological Association Style |@Hardin Library| Sept. 30, Noon-1pm”
Learn how to find U.S. Patents & Trademarks | Sept. 22, 3-4pm |@Hardin Library
The purpose of this hands-on class is to introduce several resources found on the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office website that may be used to locate information on patents, trademarks and patent applications. Google’s patent searching feature will be also be covered. Our session: Tuesday, September 22nd, 3:00-4:00pm (Location: East Information Commons, 2nd floor, HardinContinue reading “Learn how to find U.S. Patents & Trademarks | Sept. 22, 3-4pm |@Hardin Library”
Tour some new and well-established apps for your mobile device! | Sept. 22, 2-3pm
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. If you don’t have a mobileContinue reading “Tour some new and well-established apps for your mobile device! | Sept. 22, 2-3pm”
Find out how to measure your scholarly impact with our workshop Wednesday, Sept. 16
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. Wednesday, September 16th, 10:00 – 11:00am (Location: EastContinue reading “Find out how to measure your scholarly impact with our workshop Wednesday, Sept. 16”
Learn to manage your citations faster with our EndNote Basic workshop @Hardin Library
EndNote Basic is a web-based citation management software that is freely available to all UI affiliates. It allows you to import, organize and format citations for papers, articles, etc. EndNote Basic is not the same as the desktop software, Endnote. This free, hands-on workshop will be held on Tuesday, September 15th, 9:00 – 10:00am, HardinContinue reading “Learn to manage your citations faster with our EndNote Basic workshop @Hardin Library”
Mark Your Calendar: Journal Article Publishing Workshop, Oct 15
Journal Article Publishing Workshop, Oct 15 October 15, 2015; 9 – 11 a.m., EMRB, Seebold Room This workshop is a collaboration with Elsevier to offer faculty, graduate students, post-docs, and library staff an academic publishing workshop designed to examine the processes for developing manuscripts and submitting articles to academic journals. Preparing manuscripts, the editorial process,Continue reading “Mark Your Calendar: Journal Article Publishing Workshop, Oct 15”
Find more on PubMed after our workshops this Fall
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to the medical literature and includes over 22 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 sessions this Fall: Thursday, September 10th, 2:00 – 3:00pm (Location:Continue reading “Find more on PubMed after our workshops this Fall”
Learn how to search for genetic information on NCBI at our free workshops this Fall
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 how to search for genetic information on NCBI at our free workshops this Fall”
Learn to search PubMed faster with our free workshop Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2-3pm
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to the medical literature and includes over 22 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 next session is Tuesday, August 18, 2-3pm, Information Commons East,Continue reading “Learn to search PubMed faster with our free workshop Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2-3pm”