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Previous Sessions:

Using SciFinder Web and PubMed Basics
Wednesday June 24th
3:00pm-4:00pm
WEL 2.122 (Welch Convocation Center)

Learn about the new Web version of SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts). This part of the session will cover registering for your personal SciFinder login, features of the Web interface, and using your search results. For more information please contact the Chemistry Library.

Learn PubMed Basics in this overview of the database. The 25-minute session will cover setting up a MyNCBI account, PubMed features, effective search techniques and using your search results. For more information please contact Roxanne Bogucka.

 

Finding Funding and Patent Searching
Wednesday July 1st
2:00pm-3:00pm
ACE 2.402

The Finding Funding portion of the session is designed to help explain sources of funding and how to learn about funding opportunities.  Special emphasis will be on using the Community of Science for funding updates. For more information please contact Larayne Dallas.

Did you ever want to know what has been previously patented?  The patent searching section of this presentation will show you how to begin a patent search by discussing the rules for what can and cannot be patented and why this impacts on searching, basic and advanced techniques for searching patents and ways to avoid “patent searching overload.” For more information please contact Susan Ardis.

 

Introduction to EndNote and Zotero and Tips on Counting Citations
Tuesday July 7th
2:00pm-3:00pm
ACE 2.402

Introduction to EndNote and Zotero will provide information about these two popular reference management tools. For more information please contact Nancy Elder.

Tips on Counting Citations will provide an overview of the Cited Reference Search in Web of Science. For more information please contact Molly White.

 

Overview of the Science Databases
Tuesday July 14th
12:00pm - 2:00pm
J.J. Pickle Research Campus (UT Shuttle information)
ROC Seminar Room 1.603 (Light refreshments will be available)

The first part of this session will provide a general overview of several databases including GeoRef, AAPG Datapages, and Web of Science; alerting services; and publisher packages. For more information please contact Dennis Trombatore.

The second half of this session will provide an overview of the database Compendex; patent searching; locating standards; and citation management tools EndNote and Zotero. For more information please contact Robyn Rosenberg.

 

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