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: Wednesday, April 13th, 2-3p – East Commons, 2ndContinue reading “Faster literature searching | PubMed workshop Wed. April 13, 2pm”
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EMBASE : discover information not in PubMed | Workshop Wed. April 13, 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 “EMBASE : discover information not in PubMed | Workshop Wed. April 13, 10am”
Organize your references | EndNote Desktop workshop @Hardin Library | Tuesday, April 12, 2pm
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. The class willContinue reading “Organize your references | EndNote Desktop workshop @Hardin Library | Tuesday, April 12, 2pm”
Discover U.S. Patents, Trademarks, and Patent Applications |Workshop Tuesday, April 5, 1pm @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 highlighted as a source for finding information on patents. Taught by Kari Kozak (Head,Continue reading “Discover U.S. Patents, Trademarks, and Patent Applications |Workshop Tuesday, April 5, 1pm @Hardin Library”
Find nutrition information in PubMed & Embase faster with our workshop | Tuesday, April 5, 10am@Hardin Library
Literature searching for nutrition-related subjects in PubMed and Embase can be challenging. This hands-on session will: examine those challenges and suggest techniques for doing better searches on topics related to nutrition, and improve your search results by using subject headings (MeSH) and advanced keyword searching techniques. Our next session: Tuesday, April 5th, 10-11a – East Commons,Continue reading “Find nutrition information in PubMed & Embase faster with our workshop | Tuesday, April 5, 10am@Hardin Library”
Learn to use NCBI to search for genetic information | workshop @Hardin Library | Tuesday, March 22, 1-2pm
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 use NCBI to search for genetic information | workshop @Hardin Library | Tuesday, March 22, 1-2pm”
Learn to find nursing and allied health literature | CINAHL | Workshop March 1, 11am-12pm
This hands-on session will demonstrate how to use CINAHL effectively to find high quality nursing and allied health literature. Learn to select the most appropriate search terms and practice searching. Open to all skill levels! Our session is: Tuesday, March 1, 11am-12pmNo time for the workshop? Request a personal session or sign up for our otherContinue reading “Learn to find nursing and allied health literature | CINAHL | Workshop March 1, 11am-12pm”
Authors workshop on scholarly publishing, rights, NIH public access | Thursday, Feb. 25, 11am-12pm
The NIH Public Access Policy, which assures that all articles arising from NIH-sponsored research are freely available within a year after publication, is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to changes in the scholarly publishing. Participants will learn more about these trends and to discuss experiences with publishing. Workshop is Thursday, February 25th,Continue reading “Authors workshop on scholarly publishing, rights, NIH public access | Thursday, Feb. 25, 11am-12pm”
Scopus & Web of Science | Workshop Tuesday, Feb. 16 10am
Scopus and Web of Science databases are multidisciplinary and allow you to measure scholarly impact. Most citations that are in EMBASE are also in Scopus. This hands-on session will demonstrate: 1) how to quickly find the articles you need for you research or systematic review in each database 2) how to track an article’s cited andContinue reading “Scopus & Web of Science | Workshop Tuesday, Feb. 16 10am”
Find relevant articles faster | PubMed workshops
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 semester: Thursday, February 11th, 1-2p – West Commons,Continue reading “Find relevant articles faster | PubMed workshops”