this issueThe Importance of the Library to the University Research Effort p. 4

SciFinder Database p. 6

UT Library Directors Receive ScienceDirect Proposal p. 7

How Can RSS Help You? p. 8

The UTHSC Library is on Twitter p.10

Research Paper Wins Award p. 11

Journals Added to Collection p. 12

Library Workshop Schedule p. 16

For the first time in 3 years, the library’s Website has a completely new look. We’ve overhauled the entire site from top to bottom with your, our users’, needs foremost in mind. The Website has been redesigned to make way for a cleaner, more intuitive homepage; to provide faster access to our most popular resources; and to help you find information and resources faster.

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Library Hours

M-Th. 8 a.m. - 12 a.m.Fri. 8 a.m. - 11 p.m.Sat. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.Sun. 2 p.m. - 12 a.m.

Phone Numbers

Library 901-448-5634InterlibraryLoan 901-448-5168Reference 901-448-5404Toll-Free 877-747-0004

Book/Journal Locations

2nd FloorCurrent Print JournalsBooks, 1980-present

4th FloorJournals, 1975-previous year

5th FloorJournals, pre-1975Books, pre-1980

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The homepage has been cleaned up and given a more modern, spacious design—allowing the information you need most to take center stage. Access to our most popular resources, for example, has been moved out of a hard-to-find drop-down list and into the most prominent position of the page—giving you one-click access to things like UpToDate and Scopus.

Many other improvements like these were made across the site to ensure that you have fast and easy access to the information and resources you need. We invite you to try out the redesigned site today at http://library.utmem.edu/.

Library Instructional Services has developed a podcast to walk you through the more important Website changes and to help you find resources you use regularly.

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We’ve also tried to ensure that new and important resources get some extra special attention on the homepage. To that end, we’ve added a space right in the center of the homepage that will allow us to highlight resources and services we believe will be of special interest to you.

The homepage isn’t the only area of the site to be given a thorough makeover. The e-resources area, for instance, has been rebuilt from the ground up to make browsing easier than ever. E-resources can be browsed one category at a time or by combining categories in any number of ways to help you find online resources for your research or studies.

Matt GraysonBrenda GreenGwen JacksonThomas SingarellaRobert St. ClairDeborah TaylorWanda Wade Jennifer WatsonMary WilliamsLin Wu

Contributors to this edition:

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Library resource costs have been increasing (around 10% annually) for decades be-cause of publisher inflation, as well as the number of online databases that have be-come available in the last decade. Although collection costs continue to significantly increase, it is important to stress that the library should be considered a campus asset, not merely a cost center or overhead cost.

An important study (Kaufman, 2008) formulated the relationship between the library and the grant income generated through its use (e.g., journals, databases). At the University of Illinois at Urbana (UIUC), Paula Kaufman, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, sought to quantify the library’s contribution by the statement “for each dollar invested in the library, the university received x dollars in return.” Kaufman developed measures that quantified the academic library’s value in supporting university strategic goals. Grant income generated by faculty using library materials was used to determine a return on investment (ROI) for each dollar provided for the library collection. This study demonstrated that the research collections of the library can quantify a return on the uni-versity investment in the library, and it also demonstrated a correlation between library and grant activities.

A study on academic publishing in Europe (Rowlands, 2009) sought to determine how researchers responded to the unprecedented levels and convenience of access to online scholarly journals and whether enhanced access to the literature led to greater productivity, research quality, and other outcomes. The findings suggested that a 4-fold increase in library resource usage is linked to 11 times higher funding. Moreover, Row-land reported that the number of research papers, awards, and research grants and contracts increased with increased article downloads from the institutions’ libraries.

It is estimated that 96.1% of current journal titles in science, technology, and medicine (and 86.5% of current titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences) are now avail-able online.

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For your convenience, book drops are located around campus at the following locations:

Alexander BuildingColeman BuildingDunn Dental BuildingGeneral Education BuildingHyman BuildingMolecular Sciences Building

Book drops must not be used for 1-day items, items due within 3 days, or audiovisual material.

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A survey by Judy Luther (Luther, 2008) found that 82% of UIUC faculty said that their library’s e-resources helped with interdisciplinary research and increased overall efficiency and productivity. The faculty who participated in the survey confirmed fac-tors related to successful grant proposals: 95% of respondents stated that citations are important in securing grant awards funding, 94% use citations in grant proposals, and 94% obtained citations online via the library gateway. Using the ROI model with UIUC data produced “a return of $4.38 in grant income to the university for every dollar invested in the library.” Luther concluded that grant income secured by faculty using library resources represented only a portion of the value the university receives from the library, and she also noted the importance of the library in supporting institutional goals. Paula Kaufman was a project participant, and Carol Tenopir, a professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Director of the Center for Information and Communications Studies, served as project advisor.

Kaufman, Paula T. The library as strategic investment: Results of the Illinois return on investment study. Liber Quarterly (18:3/4), 2008, pp. 424-436.http://liber.library.uu.nl/

Luther, Judy. University investment in the library: What’s the return? A case study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2008. Commissioned by Elsevier Library Con-nect Office, San Diego, CA.http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/whitepapers/lcwp0101.pdf

Rowlands, Ian. Electronic Journals: modeling journal spend, use and research outcomes.Ciber Group, University College, London Academic Publishing in Europe (APE 2009), Ber-lin, January 20, 2009. http://www.ape2009.eu/09ape_literature.htm

Library Tip

Ethical Scientific Communication

Avoiding plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other questionable writing practices: A guide to ethical writing, a must-have booklet (about 60 pages) for faculty and students, contains many real-life examples and some exercises. While the author, Prof. Miguel Roig of St. John’s University, focuses on plagiarism, other scientific communication ethical issues are also covered: authorship, duplicate (redundant) publication, copyright, conflict of interest, responsible citation, and salami publishing. This resource is particularly valuable because of its emphasis on the sciences.

A printed copy is on reserve in the library.

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Book Drop Locations

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The Health Sciences Library subscribes to SciFinder, a research discovery tool that allows students and faculty to access Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) records from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, and agricultural science.

The SciFinder Web Interface

SciFinder has a new interface available on the Web. While SciFinder Web contains many of the same features as the desktop version, the SciFinder Web interface provides several new capabilities! You can

• Save answer sets on the server.• Export answer sets in .pdf format.• Export commercial source information in Microsoft Excel (.xls) format.• Generate and view Keep Me Posted (KMP) results about updated searches.• Analyze answer sets automatically.• Retain session history.• Access enhanced navigation functions.

Visit SciFinder Web to check out its new attributes.

Thanks to SGAECFor yet another year, the Student Government Association Executive Committee has voted to provide the Health Sciences Library with resources that ultimately benefit students. The SGAEC provided funds to enable the library to purchase several licenses for Adobe Acrobat Pro for both the PC and Mac, three laptops that will be available to students working in the library, and replacement batteries for the laptops currently in use.

Many thanks to the Health Science Center SGAEC for supporting the library!

SciFinder Database

Library Tip

EndNote Web is a Web-based service allowing students and researchers to import and organize up to 10,000 references from PubMed, Web of Science, and other databases. References can then be inserted and formatted in a research paper using Microsoft Word or shared with colleagues.

As UTHSC faculty, students, and staff, you can create an account with EndNote Web.

Need assistance using EndNote Web? Contact the library at 901-448-5404 or send an email to utlibrary@utmem.edu.

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On June 11, 2009, the UT library directors and e-resource librarians met in Knoxville with representatives from Elsevier to discuss a possible UT system-wide contract for access to the ScienceDirect collection of online journals and books. The objective was to determine whether a cost-effective contract could be developed for access to this resource across all UT campuses.

We hoped to leverage the size of our university to provide access to ScienceDirect online content at reasonable cost. ScienceDirect provides access to over 2000 journals and more than 7 million articles and includes online access to 25% of the world’s most referenced scientific, technical, and medical content.

The proposal presented by Elsevier was more expensive than expected; therefore, negotiations continue. However, the directors remain hopeful that a cost-effective contract with Elsevier for ScienceDirect allowing system-wide access might yet be developed.

MedEdPORTAL: A Free Instructional Resource from AAMC and ADEA

MedEdPORTAL is a free, online, peer-reviewed publication service provided by the Association of American Medical Colleges in partnership with the American Dental Education Association. MedEdPORTAL was designed to promote educational collaboration by facilitating the open exchange of peer-reviewed teaching resources such as tutorials, virtual patients, simulation cases, lab guides, videos, podcasts, and assessment tools.

While MedEdPORTAL’s primary audiences include health educators and learners around the globe, it is open and available for free to the general public. Users can access quality, peer-reviewed teaching material and assessment tools in both the basic and clinical sciences in medicine and in oral health.

With MedEdPORTAL, users can download or access the majority of the published resources directly from the Website. Published authors retain their original copyrights and indicate on the MedEdPORTAL Website how others may use the materials. In addition, all third-party copyrighted materials and patient privacy issues are addressed during the submission process so users can download and use any and all of the published resources for educational purposes without legal infringements.

Note: the information in this article was excerpted from the MedEdPORTAL Website.

UT Library DirectorsReceive ScienceDirect Proposal

More and more scholarly journals are offering their latest issue’s table of contents or early-view articles via RSS, featuring article titles, authors, and links to the abstract. And sites and databases like PubMed/Medline, CINAHL, and OVID offer topic alerts via RSS (Really Simple Syndication).

What is RSS? RSS is a format for sharing and distributing Web content. You can sub-scribe to as many RSS feeds as you want by using an RSS feed reader. All your sub-scriptions come to one place so that you don’t have to go to different places or search several databases again and again to find out what’s new or get updated search results. Your RSS reader checks your subscriptions regularly and displays the updated content automatically. The RSS feed reader enables you to browse the headlines, abstracts, and short descriptions of each item you subscribed to. You can also click to see each item in its regular Web page context.

To start using RSS, here is what you need to do.

1. Choose a feed reader to aggregate your feeds. The most frequently used Web-based readers are Google Reader, Blogline, and My Yahoo. Another simple feed reader is your Web browser. Both Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox enable you to bookmark feeds by clicking on the RSS icon in the toolbar and saving the feed.

2. Select and subscribe to multiple feeds. Sites that offer an RSS feed usually display a radio wave icon in the browser address bar (Fig. 1) or a small orange XML or Atom but-ton somewhere on the page itself (Fig. 2). You can subscribe to the feed by clicking on the address bar icon and following your browser’s directions or by right clicking on the orange button, selecting “copy shortcut” (for Internet Explorer) or “copy link location” (for Firefox), and pasting that shortcut into the new subscription or add a subscription option in your RSS reader. Many Websites also give you options to help you subscribe. (Fig. 3)

3. Start using RSS reader to browse your subscriptions in one central location.

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Some benefits of using RSS:

• Save time.• Receive automatic notification of new information related to your topics of interest.• Scan large amounts of information in a short time because information is delivered

to one central location.• Eliminate exposing your email address to others, because subscribing to a feed is

done anonymously. • Control your RSS subscriptions as you want. Deleting and adding a feed takes only

one click.• Save your email inbox space, because subscriptions via RSS feeds don’t go to

your email.

Need to know more about RSS and how to make it work for you? Register to attend the library workshop Staying Current or call the Information Desk at 901-448-5404 for as-sistance.

UT Libraries Expand Borrowing PrivilegesUTHSC students, faculty, and staff can now borrow books from other University of Ten-nessee campuses across the state. No special borrower’s card required! Now, your UTHSC ID card is sufficient to borrow books at any of the following UT System cam-puses:

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville • University of Tennessee at Chattanooga• University of Tennessee at Martin• University of Tennessee Space Institute (Tullahoma)

To check out books, present your UTHSC ID card at any UT library circulation desk. Library staff will verify your affiliation and create a local patron record. Visiting users will enjoy the same borrowing privileges and loan periods as local users, with a few minor exceptions. The Health Sciences Library will be providing this same service to patrons from our sister UT campuses. This service does not extend to Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) libraries. If you need to use a TBR library, such as the University of Memphis or Southwest Tennessee Community College, please stop by the Health Sciences Library to obtain a courtesy borrower’s card.

Note that this new service affects just print books. To use the online resources, such as e-books or e-journals, of another UT library, you will need to use a computer located inside that library because of licensing restrictions.

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Twitter is a free, social networking and microblogging service where people answer the question “What are you doing?” via 140-character messages from their cellphone, laptop, or desktop. The service enables people to see/exchange each others’ updates, which are also called tweets.

What does this have to do with the Health Sciences Library? Using Twitter, the library sends out brief updates and alerts about the library as another communication chan-nel between the library and the campus community. Twitter updates include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• A link to the latest table of contents from selected medical journals• Information about library resources, services, news, and events• Tips for using library resources • Announcements regarding database/system maintenance

Tweets usually contain headlines, titles, and a brief description about each item and links to more detailed information or resources. You can receive updates about the library from either your mobile devices or your computer.

If you are a Twitter user, keep tabs on the library on Twitter. You can also send direct messages from your Twitter account to the library if you have questions about a particu-lar tweet. Your questions will be answered in a timely manner. If you don’t want to sign up for a Twitter account, you can subscribe to the library’s Twitter feed via RSS.

Check out who is now using Twitter at UT:

UTHSChttp://www.twitter.com/uthsc

UTGSM UT Residency http://www.twitter.com/UTGSM

UT Medical Center http://twitter.com/utmedicalcenter

University of Tennessee Campus Newshttp://twitter.com/UTennCampusNews

UT Knoxvillehttp://twitter.com/UTKnoxville

UT Teaching Hospitals

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospitalhttp://twitter.com/StJude

Methodist University Hospitalhttp://twitter.com/MethodistHlth

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A research-based paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association in May was awarded 1st place for research papers.

The co-authors of the paper were Tom Singarella, Professor and Director, UT Health Sciences Library and Biocommunications Center, and Paul Schoening, Associate Dean and Director, The Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.

“Trends in Institutional Repositories in Health Sciences Libraries” was awarded 1st place by the research awards judging team and was announced in the summer issue of Hypothesis: The Journal of the MLA Research Section. The award acknowledges high-quality research in the medical library field and includes a prize of $100.

5th Annual Library Conference and Expo Library staff members Carolyn Polk and Wanda Wade had the pleasure of attending the 5th Annual Circulation Conference entitled “Circulation: Check Us Out,” which was held at the University of Memphis, Ned McWherter Library, last June. Topics included Email Etiquette, Dealing with Problem Patrons, Customer Service 101, and Quick Book Repair.

The most memorable session was Customer Service 101, during which participants were given a team activity to try to remember company slogans. In other words, how will people remember you? Would it be your smile or something you said or did for that customer that wasn’t expected? Also, attendees were given a handout that described customer service and the five basic principles of customer service. The last part of that session was an opportunity to watch a video called “Johnny the Bagger,” which depicted a young man who worked at a grocery store and made a tremendous impact on the customers who came in and out of the store by simply putting in each bag that he sacked a little sheet of paper that had a memorable saying on it. It is in the best interest of our library to always give the best customer service possible, even if the situation seems not to warrant it. Customers may complain, get upset, act tough, etc., but despite those things, they need to know that we understand their problem and that we will do what we can to come up with a positive solution. At the conclusion of the day, each participant received a Certificate of Achievement.

Gloria Harris and Robert St. Clair participated in the “We are One, Library Expo,” held in the Rose Theatre and Lecture Hall at the University of Memphis. The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Library displayed a virtual tour of our library, demonstrated how we use technology, and promoted the upcoming Southern Chapter Medical Library Association Annual Meeting that our library is hosting at The Peabody Hotel in October. Librarians from across the state shared ideas with each other in an effort to unite the libraries of Tennessee.

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The library has been able to add electronic journal access to the following titles from the American Association for Cancer Research:

• Cancer Prevention Research • Molecular Cancer Research • Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

These titles are available in a package along with Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, Cancer Research, and Clinical Cancer Research. We had long-standing subscriptions to these titles and were able to add the total package for little more than the cost of the three individual subscriptions.

At the same time, two searchable online services were acquired: Cancer Prevention Journals Portal features prevention articles from the six titles. Cancer Reviews Online features review articles from the six titles.

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins recently expanded their Total Access Collection, a group of electronic clinical medicine journals:

• Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal• Back Letter• Clinical Nutrition Insight• Contemporary Ophthalmology• Contemporary Spine Surgery• Continuum: Lifelong Learning in Neurology• Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care• European Journal of Anaesthesiology • Evidence-Based Ophthalmology• International Journal of Gynecological Cancer• Intervention• Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine• Journal of Christian Nursing• Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy• Journal of Nursing Research• Journal of Patient Safety• Journal of Thoracic Oncology• Lippincott’s Bone and Joint Newsletter• Nephrology Times• Professional Case Management• Simulation in Healthcare• Topics in Pain Management

The Total Access Collection now includes 279 journal titles.

All these titles are now available through the library catalog or the e-journal A-Z list.

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Library Tip

Copyright Help

Need to know something about copyright and fair use? A link to Intellectual Property from the library Website’s Research Help menu is now available. In addition to background information and links to reputable resources, the site also contains the current UT intellectual property policy and a fair use test for evaluating individual items.

Check it out.

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Health Sciences Library and Biocommunications CenterThe University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Health Sciences Library and Biocommunications CenterThe University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Chancellor, Hershel P. Wall, M.D.

Vice Chancellor for Academic, Faculty, and Student Affairs,Cheryl R. Scheid, Ph.D.

Director, Thomas A. Singarella, Ph.D.

Editor, David L. Armbruster, Ph.D.

Designer, Robert St. Clair, M.A.

INFOnews is published three times a year and distributed electronically to faculty, students, and staff of the Health Science Center and to other health sciences libraries.

Articles published in INFOnews may be reprinted in, or adapted for, other publications if credit is given and a copy of the reprint is sent to the INFOnews editor.

Your reactions to, and comments about, INFOnews are important. Please send them to INFOnews editor, 328 Alexander, 901-448-5051 (fax 901-448-6855).

The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title IX/Section 504/ADA employer.

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With the assistance of our subscription agent, we are constantly seeking opportunities to add content without encumbering additional financial resources. Suggestions for additions are always welcome. Email eservices@utmem.edu or call 901-448-5154 or 448-7295.

Interested in Cell? Because the Health Sciences Library has an online subscription, you can enjoy your own free subscription to Cell by going to www.cell.com/freesub.

Journals Added to Collection

List of Recently Acquired Books Available A list of books purchased or donated to the library from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009, is available in PDF format from the library Website. The list is arranged alphabetically by subject. Because many books are interdisciplinary, they have been cross-listed as appropriate. Links in the table of contents will take you to the correct page instantly.

You can recommend a book for the collection online by clicking on Borrowing and Requests.

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This year marked the end of the Careers in Health Information, Librarianship and Informatics (CHILI) project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Earlier this summer, two middle school students received exposure to the field of health sciences librarianship thanks to an invitation from their big brother and big sister. Yolanda Qin, 10th grade, and Terence Taylor, 12th grade, invited their siblings to attend a reflective ceremony marking the end of their CHILI summer internship at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) library. During the ceremony, Yolanda and Terence, along with fellow interns Jahleel Nelson, 11th grade, and Minnie Pruitt, 12th grade, gave the audience a glimpse of the projects, activities, and site visits they experienced as CHILI interns. The interns assisted in several projects such as producing a library orientation

podcast for incoming pharmacy students. Interns also received expert assistance in creating their resumes, enhancing their vocabulary to include terms such as HIPPA and nanotechnology, and broadening their understanding of the role and function of an academic health science center. An impressive number of UTHSC staff, faculty, administrators, and librarians supported the summer internship in a number of ways such as spending one-on-one time discussing their careers and educational background. Richard Nollan, tenured associate professor at the Health Sciences Library, made a lasting impression upon one intern when she learned he has earned three degrees and is pursing a fourth. Another memorable encounter for the interns was with Wisdom Coleman, DDS, Associate Dean, Office of Admissions and Student Affairs, UTHSC College of Dentistry. Dr. Coleman’s tour of the dental facilities and his advice for personal and academic success resonated with the interns and was mentioned in their daily narratives. Interactions with librarians, as well as campus faculty and administrators, provided opportunities for the interns to experience the varied and highly technical careers of health sciences librarians and their work environments.

The lead institution for the IMLS grant was Johns Hopkins University with Charlie Greenberg, Yale University, serving as the project manager. Local project managers, Brenda F. Green, Health Sciences Library, and TaJuana O. Redmond, Office of Medical Education, College of Medicine, increased the number of interns for the final internship from two to four thanks to overwhelming campus administrative support. In addition to this year’s interns and their siblings, hundreds of middle and high school students have been introduced to the field of health sciences librarianship and informatics over the 4-year life of the project.

Next Generation of Librarians

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The subscription costs of library resources continue to rise by approximately 10% annually while the library’s budget remains flat. Consequently, we projected a shortfall of approximately $164,000 for the coming year and determined that cuts would be necessary.

Journal subscriptions make up the bulk of the library’s collection expenditures, and our efforts were focused there. We collected usage data from publishers, vendors, and our own journal management system. We also assigned each title a subject descriptor and compared the number of titles we held in each subject to the total number available. We also considered the number of titles in that area that we canceled last year. With usage for each title available and the cost of each title known, we generated cost per use data across our journal collection. Titles with a high cost per use were then placed on the initial proposed cancellation list. Databases and books were also analyzed for cost, usage, and subject coverage, and selected titles were added to the cancellation list.

The preliminary list included about 200 titles, and everyone at the Health Science Center had an opportunity to participate in the journal cancellation survey and vote on the titles last April. We received 471 responses to the survey. Based on our budget data; the responses received; and the cost, usage, and other data previously compiled, the library’s Resource Development Committee generated a shorter list and again invited comments from the campus. Following the review period, we posted our final cancellation list of 94 titles in early June. Subscriptions to the vast majority of these titles will end December 31, 2009.

Negotiations for our 2010 ScienceDirect contract are ongoing, and we hope that we can continue to subscribe to the title list we have now (see article on page 7).

The 2010 cancellation list can be viewed online.

Library Cancellations for 2010

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Health Sciences LibraryWorkshop Schedule – 2009-2010All workshops are open to faculty, staff, and students. To register, click on the workshop title. Additional dates for faculty-only workshops are also available through the campus Faculty Resource Center. Click on the workshop title and then on the link View ‘Faculty Only’ dates.

Accessing Electronic Resources (Beginner) – Brenda GreenLearn how to use the library’s Website – both on and off campus – to access the library’s collection of more than 200 e-books and 2300 e-journals. This session will also cover the library’s online catalog and provide an overview of the content and features of the library’s major online databases.

August 5, 2009 10 – 11 amOctober 13, 2009 10 – 11 amDecember 3, 2009 10 – 11 amFebruary 3, 2010 10 – 11 amApril 7, 2010 10 – 11 am

Adobe Photoshop Workshop – Robert St. ClairThis workshop lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Photoshop CS3 features they’re most likely to use. In this workshop, users will learn basic techniques to clean up and remove backgrounds from scanned curricular materials.

September 15, 2009 2 – 4 pmMarch 2, 2010 8 – 10 am

Apple iMovie Workshop – Robert St. ClairThis workshop teaches the iMovie interface and basic educational movie creation.

September 17, 2009 2 – 4 pmMarch 4, 2010 8 – 10 am

Copyright Workshop – Richard NollanGain a basic insight into copyright principles and their importance in academic research and education.

December 9, 2009 8 – 9 amFebruary 9, 2010 8 – 9 amApril 13, 2010 8 – 9 am

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To register for a workshop, click on the workshop title.

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Database/Literature Searching – Brenda GreenLearn strategies for conducting a literature search of the professional literature in your field. This workshop teaches you how to “begin with the end in mind.” Resource material includes descriptions of library databases covering fields such as business, education, healthcare, and psychology.

August 6, 2009 10 – 11 amOctober 7, 2009 10 – 11 amDecember 8, 2009 10 – 11 amFebruary 4, 2010 10 – 11 amApril 8, 2010 10 – 11 am

EndNote – Jennifer WatsonThis self-paced, hands-on workshop covers the use of EndNote software to manage citations for research papers and bibliographies. The workshop covers entering data, downloading references from PubMed and other databases, removing duplicates, creating multiple libraries, and bibliographies. Microsoft Word is used to create a simple document, add references to the document, and then change the citation style. Please note that EndNote offers a similar workshop online.

August 18, 2009 8 – 10 amOctober 15, 2009 8 – 10 amDecember 15, 2009 8 – 10 amFebruary 16, 2010 8 – 10 amApril 15, 2010 8 – 10 am

Evidence-Based Resources (Advanced) – Brenda GreenDiscuss databases and other resources that can be used to close the gap between current clinical practice and knowledge of the best evidence. Learn how to conduct a literature search once and automatically receive updates.

August 6, 2009 11 am – 12 pmOctober 14, 2009 10 – 11 amDecember 10, 2009 10 – 11 amFebruary 11, 2010 10 – 11 amApril 14, 2010 10 – 11 am

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Library Orientation – Brenda GreenProvides an overview of library services and databases and includes library registration for check-out and accessing electronic resources from off-campus locations. A tour of the facility is also included. Library orientations are held on the first Thursday of each month.

August 6, 2009 8 – 9 amSeptember 3, 2009 10 – 11 amOctober 1, 2009 10 – 11 amNovember 5, 2009 8 – 9 amDecember 3, 2009 8 – 9 amJanuary 7, 2010 10 – 11 amFebruary 4, 2010 8 – 9 amMarch 4, 2010 8 – 9 amApril 1, 2010 10 – 11 am

PubMed MEDLINE Updates – Gwen JacksonGain an overview of this authoritative database produced by the National Library of Medicine and covering biomedical sciences dating back to the 1950s. Learn techniques to effectively search the database and use features such as MeSH thesaurus, clinical queries, history tab, and database limits.

August 19, 2009 10 – 11 amDecember 16, 2009 10 – 11 amFebruary 17, 2010 10 – 11 amApril 20, 2010 10 – 11 am

Scopus (Advanced) – Brenda GreenLearn how to access journal articles, cited works, patents, conference proceedings, trade publications, and book series. This workshop will review searching techniques, setting up automatic literature searches, and managing lists of citations.

August 4, 2009 10 – 11 amOctober 21, 2009 10 – 11 amDecember 17, 2009 10 – 11 amFebruary 18, 2010 10 – 11 amApril 21, 2010 10 – 11 am

Staying Current – Lin Wu and Matt GraysonDiscover how to set up automatic alerts for your research topics and get the latest tables of contents from your favorite journals via e-mail or RSS. This workshop will introduce you to several current awareness services and resources that can help you save time and stay current in your research areas.

August 4, 2009 8 – 9 amOctober 1, 2009 8 – 9 amDecember 2, 2009 8 – 9 amFebruary 10, 2010 8 – 9 amApril 1, 2010 8 – 9 am

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