Cool Library Tools For BioAg Lab Staff
Learn about the following key resources/search tactics for lab staff: Major life science methods/protocols resources; quick tips on how to search PubMed, BIOSIS Previews, or CAB Abstracts; automatic updates of your specialized research topics with results sent via weekly/monthly e-mails; locating journal impact factors or rankings to help determine which journals your lab should publish in; tools to apply co-citation analysis to cited references and to create author citation reports; how to collaborate in your lab in the use of Endnote Web; preview just-licensed e-books from CAB International (primary publisher of agricultural books); locate core computer tech e-books to help with your running the lab website, making computer fixes, or writing code for your research group; UC-eLinks tool for linking & Copyright rules which apply to downloading PDFs of published articles and posting to UC Davis internal/external websites. Co-instructors: Ruth Gustafson & Meredith Saba.
| Mon | Dec 7 | 11:30am-1:00pm | Library Instruction Lab | register |
EndNote for the Biological & Agricultural Sciences
Learn to format bibliographies easily and automatically using EndNote, a bibliographic management tool. Discover how to download and export citations from catalogs and selected biological and agricultural databases. You will also learn how to access EndNote through the web.
| Thu | Dec 3 | 3:10pm-4:30pm | Library Instruction Lab | register |
Giving Credit Where Credit is Due (Avoid Plagiarism)
Learn how to cite quotations and others' ideas, using the MLA (Modern Language Association) or APA (American Psychological Association) style manuals. Learn basic principles to avoid plagiarism while properly creating footnotes, endnotes and bibliographies.
| Thu | Jan 21 | 3:10pm-4:30pm | Library Instruction Lab |
| Mon | Jan 25 | 9:00am-10:20am | Library Instruction Lab |
Learn to Use EndNote
Learn to use EndNote to store, manage, and format references. 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).
| Wed | Dec 2 | 11:00am-12:30pm | Library Instruction Lab | [full] |
Searching the Animal Sciences/Wildlife Biology Literature
Dependent on the subject interests of attendees, bibliographic databases and library resources from the appropriate animal-related Subject Guides will be presented. Potential Subject Guides to be covered are: Animal Sciences, Entomology, Fisheries and Aquaculture, and Marine Biology. If pertinent, the new EBSCO interface to the databases FISH & FISHERIES WORLDWIDE and WILDLIFE & ECOLOGY STUDIES WORLDWIDE will be reviewed. Relevant e-book collections will also be discussed. Database searching strategies covered include: topic/keyword, title and author searching; using the wildcard and limits; and using the thesaurus, index, and search history features. Current awareness (update/alert) services, citation searching, and how to use UC-eLinks will also be discussed. Learn about the NEWLY licensed Journal Citation Reports which indicates the top journals in each discipline. Instructor: Ruth Gustafson.
| Wed | Dec 2 | 3:30pm-5:00pm | Library Instruction Lab | register |
Searching the Biological Literature: BIOSIS Previews & PubMed Databases
BIOSIS Previews and PubMed are general databases for nearly all biological topics and are especially important for the molecular and cellular sciences. NOTE: A new PubMed interface was released on Oct 27, 2009. A special comparison section between the NEW and OLD interface for PubMed will be included. Database searching strategies covered include: topic/keyword, title and author searching; using the wildcard and limits; and using the thesaurus/MeSH terms, and search history features. Current awareness (update/alert) services, citation searching, and how to use UC-eLinks will also be discussed. Learn about the NEWLY licensed Journal Citation Reports which indicates the top journals in each discipline. Instructor: Ruth Gustafson
| Fri | Dec 4 | 11:00am-12:30pm | Library Instruction Lab | register |
Searching the Ecological/Environmental Sciences Literature & GIS Data
Dependent on the subject interests of attendees, bibliographic databases and library resources from the appropriate ecological/environmental sciences related Subject Guides will be presented. Potential Subject Guides to be covered are: Ecology and Conservation Biology; Environmental Sciences; Maps and GIS; Marine Biology; and Toxicology. Database searching strategies covered include: topic/keyword, title and author searching; using the wildcard and limits; and using the thesaurus, index, and search history features. GIS data sources will be explored including the California Spatial Information Library. Current awareness (update/alert) services, citation searching, and how to use UC-eLinks will also be discussed. Learn about the NEWLY licensed Journal Citation Reports which indicates the top journals in each discipline. Co-instructors: Ruth Gustafson and Kathy Stroud.
| Thu | Dec 3 | 11:00am-12:30pm | Library Instruction Lab | register |