Hardin Library for the Health Sciences will host the Medical Library Association’s webinar, Don’t Flip Out! Exploring Team-Based Learning on Wednesday, November 9th, 1:00-2:30 pm in Room 401 Hardin Library. Explore common (and not so common) learning theories, how they’ve influenced us and how we can use them to design our teaching. After attending thisContinue reading “Free webinar on Team-Based Learning | Wed. November 9, 1-2:30pm”
Category Archives: Workshops
NCBI: Searching for Gene, Nucleotide Sequences & Protein Information | Workshop Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2-3pm
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 “NCBI: Searching for Gene, Nucleotide Sequences & Protein Information | Workshop Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2-3pm”
Manage References, Save Full-Text Articles with EndNote Desktop | Workshop Oct. 13
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. EndNote can alsoContinue reading “Manage References, Save Full-Text Articles with EndNote Desktop | Workshop Oct. 13”
Workshop on Open Access Publishing & Identifying Predatory Publishers | Thurs., Oct. 13, 1-2pm
This session will provide information about open access publishing, detail the reasons for the open access publishing movement, and describe key elements of predatory publishers. A process often used by UI Librarians to critically evaluate the quality of open access journals will be shared, to allow participants to improve their skills/efficiency with appraisal. Information aboutContinue reading “Workshop on Open Access Publishing & Identifying Predatory Publishers | Thurs., Oct. 13, 1-2pm”
Use EndNote Basic to manage references and help you write papers | Free workshop Wed., October 12, 1-2pm
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. Our next session: Wednesday, October 12th, 1:00 – 2:00pm (Information Commons East, 2nd Floor, HardinContinue reading “Use EndNote Basic to manage references and help you write papers | Free workshop Wed., October 12, 1-2pm”
Measure your scholarly impact | H-Index, Impact Factor, Eigenfactor | workshop Wed., Oct. 5, 11am-12pm
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, October 5th 11:00am – 12:00pm Hardin LibraryContinue reading “Measure your scholarly impact | H-Index, Impact Factor, Eigenfactor | workshop Wed., Oct. 5, 11am-12pm”
Become proficient with PubMed | workshop Tuesday, Oct. 4, @1pm-2pm
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. Tuesday, October 4 1-2pm, Hardin Library – Information Commons East RegisterContinue reading “Become proficient with PubMed | workshop Tuesday, Oct. 4, @1pm-2pm”
Learn more about NCBI Molecular Data, NCBI Blast and EDirect | Workshops
The University of Michigan’s Taubman Health Sciences Library is hosting a series of National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) workshops in October 2016. Dr. Peter Cooper and Dr. Wayne Matten, of NCBI will conduct the workshops that will be streamed and available in Room 401, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. No registration required. FreeContinue reading “Learn more about NCBI Molecular Data, NCBI Blast and EDirect | Workshops”
Find results faster with PubMed! | Free workshop Wed. September 21, 2-3pm
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 sessions this Fall: Wednesday, September 21, 2-3pm Tuesday, October 4,Continue reading “Find results faster with PubMed! | Free workshop Wed. September 21, 2-3pm”
Learn to find records not in PubMed with EMBASE | workshop Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 10am
EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmaceutical database containing bibliographic records with abstracts. Although there is overlap with records from PubMed, there are also many unique records. This hands-on session will show you how to conduct basic searches using EMBASE’s quick search box, how to conduct searches using EMTREE subject headings, and how to use subheadingsContinue reading “Learn to find records not in PubMed with EMBASE | workshop Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 10am”