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  • PubMed (Medicine) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?tool=cdl&otool=cdlotool)
  • CAB Abstracts (Veterinary) (http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=N&PAGE=main&D=cabz)
  • CINAHL Plus Full Text (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=rzh)
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Classes and Instruction

Contact a Librarian listed below to arrange a library instruction session for your class or group. Classes can be customized to cover scientific research or assignments, address group research needs, or cover more general topics. Some classes are mentioned below; others can be created.

See the Class Schedule Calendar for all classes being offered by the UC Davis Libraries in the near future.

Davis Campus

Librarians

Deanna Johnson
Acting Department Head, Carlson Health Sciences Library
deejohnson@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑3271
Bernadette Swanson
Reference & Instruction Librarian
bmswanson@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑7637
Mary Wood
Animal Alternatives Librarian
mwwood@ucdavis.edu — (530) 754‑9122

Classes

Accessing the Veterinary Medicine, Public Health & Medical Literature
Want help accessing the online and print published literature in the fields of Veterinary Medicine, Public Health & Medicine? We can help! Learn the ins & outs of using online textbooks, PubMed, CAB Abstracts, and Web of Science, Google Scholar; accessing or ordering articles and books; remotely accessing online materials; and setting up alerting services in the databases to help keep up with your interests.
Who should attend? DVM, MPVM & MPH students or anyone interested in accessing the online and print published literature in the Health Sciences fields.
When? Every Tuesday afternoon, 4:00-5:00pm
Where? CHSL Conference Room
EndNote: licensed free download for UC Davis students, staff & faculty
Want to use EndNote to manage the heaps of literature you gather? We can help! Learn to collect, store, organize, and retrieve articles, and how to cite them in your posters or publications. Discover how to export citations from your favorite sources into EndNote, to attach and access the fulltext of those articles, and to create and format references for your own publications. Bring your laptop.
Who should attend? Anyone interested in using the bibliographic management software, Endnote or EndNote Web.
When? Every Friday afternoon, 2:00-3:00pm
Where? CHSL Conference Room
EndNote Advanced
Assumes attendees already understand how to export citations from research databases and manage citations in an EndNote library, and send citations to a manuscript to create in-text citations and a bibliography. This class will build upon this foundation by introducing more advanced EndNote functions such as: customizing and creating new output styles; using journal term lists; managing images, tables, and figures; and constructing a paper with built-in templates. Bring your laptop.
Who should attend? EndNote users.
When? Every Thursday afternoon, 3:00-4:00pm
Where? CHSL Conference Room
Using EndNote Web or Mendeley to annotate & share online articles with your team or group
If you are working in a group or project and looking for online options to facilitate sharing and annotating and sharing online journal articles, join us with your laptop and create a group & online library for your team using the web versions of the very popular UC Davis supported EndNote or the open source Mendeley. Bring your laptop.
Who should attend? Anyone interested in using web based bibliographic management sites with groups.
When? Upon Request
Where? CHSL Conference Room

Sacramento Campus

Librarians

Bruce Abbott
Reference & Instruction Librarian
btabbott@ucdavis.edu — (916) 734‑3529
Raquel Abad
Reference & Instruction Librarian
rjabad@lib.ucdavis.edu — (916) 734‑3870
Rebecca Davis
Acting Department Head, Blaisdell Medical Library
radavis@ucdavis.edu — (916) 734‑3529

See Class Schedule Calendar