LHS-Chicago Workshops

Google Tools

Most people use Google's products several times a day to search for information or check email. However, Google has much more to offer for communication, keeping current with research, translating text, mapping, and collaboratively creating documents. This workshop will provide an overview of selected Google Tools useful for your scholarly work.

• Tuesday September 15, 2009, 1:30-2:30 PM

RefWorks

In this workshop, you will set-up a RefWorks account, learn how to download citations from databases, and learn how to manage your citation within RefWorks.
Prerequisite: Knowledge of PubMed, Web of Science, and EBSCO databases.

• Tuesday October 6, 2009, 1:30-2:30PM

Web 2.0

Are you curious about Web 2.0, how it works, and what it is? Come to this presentation for an overview of this cutting edge phenomenon. Blogs,wikis, photo services, Facebook, and other fun applications will be covered.

• Tuesday October 13, 2009, 1:30-2:30PM

How do I know I found everything?

This workshop will cover online health sciences databases available to you for conducting thorough searches, and how to utilize features of each database to ensure retrieval of relevant results. Prerequisite: basic database search skills.

• Tuesday October 27, 2009, 1:30-2:30PM

Strengthening your grant proposal with research

Are you sure you found everything for your grant’s literature review.  Learn advanced searching techniques to find the tough stuff e.g. conference proceedings, dissertations, technical reports, and statistics. 

• Tuesday November 10, 2009, 1:30-2:30PM
  

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