Accessing the Veterinary Medicine, Public Health and Medical Literature

Want help accessing the online and print published literature in the fields of Veterinary Medicine, Public Health and Medicine? We can help! Learn the ins and outs of using online textbooks, PubMed, CAB Abstracts, Web of Science and 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 and MPH students or anyone interested in accessing the online and print published literature in the Health Sciences fields.

Questions? Please contact Mary Wood, mwwood@ucdavis.edu, 754-9122.

Effective Use of the Library (at Blaisdell Library in Sacramento)

An overview of library resources and services. Covers PubMed and Web of Science; online exam questions; online textbooks; ordering articles and books; and remote access.

Questions? Please contact Raquel Abad, rjabad@ucdavis.edu or (916) 734-3870.

EndNote

Use EndNote to store, manage, and format references in your writing. Class will cover: creating EndNote libraries, adding citations to your libraries, direct export of citations from article databases, output styles, and Cite While You Write (using EndNote with Microsoft Word).

Questions? Please contact Matt Conner, mconner@lib.ucdavis.edu or 754-7348.

EndNote Advanced for the Health Sciences

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.

Questions? Contact Deanna Johnson, djohnson@lib.ucdavis.edu

EndNote for the Health Sciences: licensed free download for UC Davis students, staff and 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 full text 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.

Questions? Please contact Deanna Johnson, djohnson@lib.ucdavis.edu.

EndNote Introduction (at Blaisdell Library in Sacramento)

Assumes attendees have loaded EndNote, but haven't used it. Class will cover the basics - how to create and manage an EndNote library; how to export references from PubMed and searching PubMed from within EndNote; how to use EndNote to add and format references in a WORD document; how to delete EndNote references from a WORD document.

Questions? Please contact Raquel Abad at rjabad@ucdavis.edu or (916) 734-3870.

EndNote Introduction for Biological / Agricultural Researchers

EndNote is a bibliographic management program which simplifies the process of generating bibliographies and reference lists. EndNote allows one to easily store, manage, and format references to any biological/agricultural science core style guide such as CSE, NLM, ACS, or APA or to any specific biological/agricultural journal style such as FASEB J, J Exp Biol, Plant Cell, or J Agr Food Chem.

This introductory class will cover: creating EndNote libraries; adding citations to your libraries; direct export of citations from biological/agricultural article databases; output styles; and Cite While You Write (using EndNote with Microsoft Word).

Questions? Contact Ruth Gustafson, ragustafson@lib.ucdavis.edu.

EndNote Web (at Blaisdell Library in Sacramento)

This class assumes attendees already know how to use the client-based version of EndNote. Participants will learn how to use EndNote Web, including how to create an account, add citations from research databases into their EndNote Web library, add citations to a manuscript from EndNote Web, and special features such as sharing citation groups with others and transferring citations to/from EndNote and EndNote Web.

Questions? Please contact Raquel Abad at rjabad@ucdavis.edu, or (916) 734-3870.

SciVal and Other Collaboration Tools

This session will cover SciVal (formerly Collexis), a licensed database that provides researchers with a number of tools, perhaps most importantly the capability of finding research collaborators based on their research interests.

Questions? Please contact Raquel Abad at rjabad@ucdavis.edu or (916) 734-3870.

Searching Grey Literature (at Blaisdell Library in Sacramento)

Grey literature is material that is not published as books or journal articles. These reports and issue briefs, often published by private research organizations, are not usually found in PubMed. Participants will learn about the value of grey literature, particularly in public health aspects of medicine.

Questions? Please contact Raquel Abad at rjabad@ucdavis.edu or (916) 734-3870.

Web of Science (at Blaisdell Library in Sacramento)

This class introduces the Web of Science research database. This includes an overview of navigating the database's interface, running a basic search, refining results, linking to papers citing a particular manuscript, using the Cited Reference Search, and using the Journal Citation Reports.

Questions? Please contact Raquel Abad at rjabad@ucdavis.edu or (916) 734-3870.