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Fall 2009 Schedule
Click on a workshop title and follow the instructions to register. You will need your UBIT username and password. If you are not affiliated with UB, e-mail dhendrix@buffalo.edu with your request. All instruction workshops will take place in the Media Instruction Room (basement level of the Health Sciences Library) unless otherwise indicated.
Bioinformatics @ HSL Workshops Taught by Dr. Diane Rein, PhD, MLS |
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| Title | HSL Workshops |
| BLAST (All levels) | Monday, September 21, 2009 10:00 am – 12:00 noon (North Campus - 212 Capen) |
| BLAST Tips & Tricks (Intermediate Level) | Monday, September 28, 2009 11:00 am – 1:00 pm (South Campus) Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:00 am – 12:00 noon (North Campus - 212 Capen) |
Beyond BLAST: Powering up your Sequence Similarity Searches with NCBI PSI-BLAST and PHI-BLAST (Advanced Level) |
Monday, October 5, 2009 10:00 am – 12:00 noon (North Campus - 212 Capen) |
| Title | HSL Workshops |
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| EndNote X.3 for Health Scientists (1.5 hours) (Click on individual date and time to register) |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:30am – 12:00 noon |
| Effectively Searching MEDLINE/PubMed | Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
| Nursing Reference Center | Wednesday, October 7, 2009 2:00pm – 3:00pm |
| Maximizing Google's Research Potential (1.5 hours) | |
Important Notice: |
Workshops
from the ETC
Workshops on Demand
Throughout the year, the librarians at the HSL are called upon to provide classes and workshops in matters related to library research. This year, the HSL is dramatically expanding the content and availability of these offerings with a new program: Workshops on Demand .
Workshops on Demand collects together many of our more popular workshops, as well as several new workshops, and makes them available for any group of five or more participants. Simply contact us, request a time and date for instruction, and we will work out the details. There are no fees or charges of any kind, and any UB student, staff or faculty member can request a workshop. We are happy to come to your venue and provide these useful and dynamic workshops, for student associations, journal clubs and other faculty groups, researchers, UB alumni - any group of five or more attendees.
Workshops currently offered include:
- 20in30 - a look at 20 assorted Web 2.0 resources in 30 minutes (Can be customized to best fit your group's needs)
- Bioinformatics Training ( DNA & Protein Sequence Searching with NCBI BLAST; Visualizing & Exploring 3-D Protein Structures; NCBI Entrez: The Life Sciences Bioinformatics Search Engine; NCBI GENE: NCBI's Gene-Specific Resource)
- CINAHL Plus Full-Text (EBSCO)
- Copyright & Plagiarism
- EMBASE
- EndNote (Both introductory and advanced training)
- Finding Health Statistics
- Journal Citation Reports
- Ovid MEDLINE (Both introductory and advanced training)
- PUBMED/MyNCBI (Both introductory and advanced training)
- Tenure Metrics - using WOS & JCR to assess your bibliography
- Using and Extending Mozilla Firefox
- Using the HSL Services & Collections
- Web of Science
- Web 2.0 technologies, including RSS, blogs, and wikis
Call Dean Hendrix, Coordinator of Education Services at 829-3900 ext 112, or e-mail dhendrix@buffalo.edu, to request workshops to be held in your facility!
