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 

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.

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.