Using Scopus & Internet Search Engines Effectively
Instructor: Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 12/9/2009
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
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Tired of getting millions of results when you search Google? Novice users enter their search topic into the default search engine of choice (usually Google). But, did you know that you can significantly increase the chances you'll find what you're looking for by knowing some of tricks of the searching trade? Your librarians will show you how to change your simple searches to successful power searches. This workshop will also discuss Google Scholar and citation analysis.
Bibliographic Management: Introduction to RefWorks
Instructor: Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 1/13/2010
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
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Stop typing your bibliographies. More than 3,000 Jeffersonians use RefWorks, a web-based database and bibliography creation program, available via JEFFLINE. Learn to create, organize, and access personal databases of bibliographic citations. Save time and let RefWorks format your bibliography for you. We'll show you how to use Refworks to import, export, search, and format citations, and use RefShare to collaborate and share databases with your colleagues.
Professional PubMed Searching
Instructor: Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 2/10/2010
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
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Learn to search MEDLINE through PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's Entrez search engine. This class focuses on using Linkout (links to over 5,300 full-text SML electronic journals), My NCBI (store and retrieve search strategies and establish search filters), Clipboard, Limit, and History features of PubMed. In addition, learn to set-up collection lists to permanently save lists of citations.
This workshop will cover:
- Limits
- Journal browser
- MeSH browser
- Single citation matcher
- Truncation
- Search field tags
- Journals Databases
- PreMEDLINE
- Natural language searching
- Clinical Queries using research methodology filters
- Creating search filters
Blogs and RSS--The Latest Tools for Keeping Up-To-Date
Instructors: Gary Kaplan, MSLIS; Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 2/24/2010
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
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Are you overwhelmed with keeping up-to-date reading web sites of interest? Do you wish you could access all your favorite web sites and table of contents alerts of your favorite journals in one easy to access web-based interface? If you answered yes, you should attend this workshop. Jeffersonians will learn about blogs and create their own Bloglines account. Work smarter and be more productive keeping up-to-date with Web content.
Take Advantage of the Jefferson Digital Commons for Shameless Self-Promotion
Instructors: Ann Koopman; Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 3/10/2010
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
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It's a win-win academic opportunity--promote your Jefferson research and publishing efforts to the world by participating in the Jefferson Digital Commons (JDC). The JDC increases your visibility. With over 2,000 different archived full-text resources including academic articles, posters, preprints, videos, images, teaching materials and newsletters you get permanent public space for all types of files AND your work is indexed by search engines like Google. Receive monthly alerts notifying you how many times your works have been downloaded. Create a faculty researcher page. Use the JDC as a university press and publish your department newsletters or create a new journal. Learn how the JDC complements Xythos and the Faculty Interests Database. The JDC is free to all Jeffersonians.
Using Scopus & Internet Search Engines Effectively
Instructor: Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 4/7/2010
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)
Tired of getting millions of results when you search Google? Novice users enter their search topic into the default search engine of choice (usually Google). But, did you know that you can significantly increase the chances you'll find what you're looking for by knowing some of tricks of the searching trade? Your librarians will show you how to change your simple searches to successful power searches. This workshop will also discuss Google Scholar and citation analysis.
Twitter for Beginners
Instructors: Gary Kaplan, MSLIS; Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 4/21/2010
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
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Politicians, celebrities, educators and organizations are twittering. Join us to learn about Twitter. You will create an account, learn to send messages, twitter etiquette, and how twittering can help promote your department, organization or course.
