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.