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 us at ref@nso.uchc.edu . You may also use our electronic registration form at http://library.uchc.edu/eduoff/regis2.html.

List of Library Classes

CINAHL/PsycInfo - Learn how to access psychology, nursing, and allied health literature.

EndNote - Bibliographies made easy. Learn how to use this tool to search online bibliographic databases, organize the references and build lists of cited works automatically.

Evidence-based Medicine - Learn how to search the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Best Evidence database and MEDLINE to locate the best available evidence to make clinical decisions.

MICROMEDEX - Learn how to search for drug information using the powerful Micromedex system.

PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) - Learn about medical applications you can add to your PDA. Software for both Palm and Windows operating systems will be discussed.

PubMed Basics - Learn how to search MEDLINE directly for up-to-date citations from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed System.

Advanced Pubmed - This class covers advanced features of searching PubMed including Mesh Database, Clinical Queries and Systematic Reviews, Preview/Index features and others.

Scopus - Learn how to search the World's largest journal indexing and abstracting database with 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.