Library Classes for Your Information Needs
Library classes are available to UCHC affiliates
only. To arrange for an individual or group session or to
ask us to develop specific instruction for your affiliated
students, colleagues or work group, call (860) 679-4051 or
email a message to our work office at ref@nso.uchc.edu
or use our electronic registration form at http://library.uchc.edu/eduoff/regis2.html
or send a fax to (860)
679-1068.
List of Library Classes
EneNote
- Bibliographies made easy.
Learn how to use this tool to search online bibliographic
databases, organize the references and build lists of cited
works automatically.
ENDNOTE
WEB - Discover EndNote Web, a free web-based version of
EndNote available through the Web of Science database.
This hands-on class will cover how to create an account,
import data directly, import data from saved files and manually
entering data, no downloading of software necessary.
Tips for editing and organizing your database, retrieving
records from your database and creating your paper and bibliography
will be covered also. This covers the easier-to-use web version of
EndNote suitable for many student and faculty projects. For a quick comparison between EndNote Web and
EndNote, go to http://www.endnoteweb.com/encompare.asp
EVIDENCE-BASED
MEDICINE (The Cochrane Library) - Learn how to search the Cochrane Library
to locate the best available evidence-based information on
the effectiveness of healthcare interventions.
PSYCHIATRY
SOURCES ONLINE - A new class, offered for the first time
in February 2008. UCHC users have access to two world-class psychiatry
and psychology databases:
PsycInfo and Psychiatry Online.
This class is an introduction to the literature for
psychiatrists, counselors, mental health and nursing professionals.
PubMed
- Learn how to search MEDLINE directly for up-to-date citations
from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed System.
RefWorks
- A Web-based bibliography and database manager.
Like EndNote and EndNote Web, it allows users to create
their own personal database by importing references from text
files or online databases. This class will also cover how
to utilize these references in writing a paper, automatically
formatting the paper and generating the bibliography. For
a general comparison of all 3 bibliographic management tools
go to http://www.library.yale.edu/cite/whichone.html
SCOPUS
- Scopus is a database for UCHC library users, providing
online searching of 27 million records covering articles from
14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international
publishers.
Web
of Science - Learn to how to search this important resource
which covers life and physical sciences, social sciences,
arts and humanities.
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