Piecing Together the Research Puzzle

The Health Sciences Libraries offers a number of resources to help you save time, search smarter, and track your impact as researchers. As library liaison to your departments, I would be happy to customize a demonstration or class on the most up-to-date methods for using these web-based tools to your faculty, staff, fellows or graduate students so you can Piece Together the Research Puzzle.

Possible Class Topics Include

Access to Online Library Resources from Off-Campus: the new proxy [outline]
Advanced PubMed: find research articles, store search strategies, become an expert searcher [outline]
Beyond Google: tips to become a more efficient searcher on the web
Beyond PubMed: HAPI, BIOSIS, or subject database of your choice
Bioresearcher Tools [outline]
Choosing the Best Evidence-Based Resources [outline]
Community of Science [outline]
Effective Searching of the Web of Science (or JCR or Current Contents Connect) [outline]
Email Alerts: Keeping Current [outline]
Finding Grants [outline]
Finding Measurement Tools [outline]
Finding Research Articles in CINAHL and PubMed
Getting Started with EndNote. EndNote Tutorial [outline]
InfoShare and ERes [outline]
Requesting Articles through Document Services [outline]
Scholarly Publishing/Open Access Options [outline] [Rethinking Scholarly Publishing poster]

Customized For Your Needs

I can meet with your group from 15 minutes to 1 hour, include one topic or many, and meet for just one time or in a continuing series. The session can be held in your department, such as during a regularly scheduled faculty meeting, or in the Health Sciences Libraries in one of our computer labs at your convenience.

Contact:

Leilani St. Anna
lstanna@u.washington.edu
206.543.9267