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USF Tampa Library Research Workshop Series

Alerting Services                                             

Workshop Facilitators:  Audrey Powers and Cheryl McCoy

What is an alerting service? Why would you want to use an alerting service? How can these tools help you with your research?  Alerting services help you stay up-to-date with the current publications in your discipline by delivering user-defined search results or journal table of contents directly to you via email or RSS feeds. Find out more about how this database service works, how you can make use of these services to save time, and streamline your research endeavors.

Tuesday, October 21; 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Location: Tampa Library - LIB 201

Thursday, October 22;  2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  | Location: Tampa Library - LIB 201

To sign up for this workshop click on the following link: http://www.cte.usf.edu/workshops/

Using the Ideas of Others : Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism

Workshop Facilitators: Matt Torrence and John Abresch

Friday, October 24;  2:00 PM - 4:00 PM  | Location: Tampa Library - LIB 201

Almost all fields of research involve the intensive tracing of theories and ideas already authored. As critical thinkers, we are invited to evaluate, extend, and create our own ideas by examining the fine research available. There's always an art to science, however, and part of this art involves using the right sources and giving proper credit to the academic achievements already published. This workshop will explore the basics of citation and its many styles, as well as how to avoid plargiarism and use new tools, like RefWorks.

To sign up for this workshop, click on the following link:  http://www.cte.usf.edu/workshops/

ISI Web of Knowledge - Training Opportunities for June 2008

Thomson Scientific is offering a series of free, web-based training classes for EndNote Web and ISI Web of Knowledge. The training is provided using the online conferencing tool WebEx, which can easily be downloaded to your computer minutes before the scheduled training ready to begin. You can attend a live, interactive training session or take advantage of recorded training sessions that can be viewed anytime. 

Upcoming Training Classes - Sign Up Now!
Click a product name below to view the scheduled training classes coming up in June:

EndNote Web
ISI Web of Science
ISI Web of Knowledge
ISI Web of Knowledge en Français
ISI Web of Knowledge in Italiano
ISI Web of Knowledge - Deutsch

Recorded Training Classes - Anytime, Anywhere - 24/7
Don't have time to attend a class? View ISI's  recorded training modules.

New Acquisition: Porphyrin Handbook

The USF Tampa Library has just purchased all twenty volumes of the Porphyrin Handbook, which is a major reference source for scientists in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and medicine who are currently investigating porphyrins and their numerous analogues and derivatives. Porphyrins are being used as platforms for the study of theoretical principles, as catalysts, as drugs, as electronic devices, and as spectroscopic probes in biology and medicine.   

The Porphyrin Handbook is located on the first floor of the USF Tampa Library in the Reference Collection.  The call number for this handbook series is Ref QD401 .P824 2000.

Citations Cramping Your Style: Use RefWorks

Multiple dates or suggest your own date.
USF Tampa Library

Workshop Description: RefWorks is an online bibliographic management program that allows faculty, students, and staff at USF to create a personal database of references. Learn how to automatically export citations from a search performed in some online databases or enter citations manually and then automatically create your bibliography in a host of styles including APA, MLA, Chicago, or Turabian. RefWorks can also be used to organize your citations by topic. Or, try the Write-n-Cite addon with MicroSoft Word to input in-text citations and automatically generate a bibliography when your paper/article is complete. USF faculty, staff and students have unlimited access to this software.

Intended Audience: Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in any discipline.

Click here to register.

SciFinder Scholar Support and Training

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) provides a wide range of support and training for SciFinder Scholar, the online version of Chemical Abstracts:

• CAS e-Seminars, that explore research topics, reaction and structure searching
• How-to-Guides, that provide quick overviews of basic search features
• Search Strategies that provide more advanced help for the intermediate user
• Materials for Instructors, that can be used as either self-teaching guides or basic instructional exercises for your students

Please visit the CAS SciFinder Scholar Support & Training webpage for the latest information:  http://www.cas.org/support/academic/sf/index.html

Tampa Library - Workshops for Spring 2008

This semester, the Tampa Library is offering the following workshops to help pump up your research skills. Please let your students and colleagues know. Hope to see you here!

Alerting Services for the Sciences

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, 10-11:00 am and 2-3:00 pm
USF Tampa Library LIB 209

Workshop Description: What is an Alert Service? Why use an Alert Service? How can it help you with your research? Find out more about how this database service works, how you can use it to streamline your research, and why it is important for you to know how to use it. Set up an alert service using a major scientific database during this workshop.

Intended Audience: Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the sciences.

Click here to register.

Researching the Literature in the Social Sciences: Beyond the Basics

Friday, February 29, 2008, 2-4:00 pm
USF Tampa Library LIB 209

Workshop Description: You know the basics—the library catalog, the databases in your discipline and many of the tools for coursework and basic projects, but now you want to go deeper either because you are getting ready for writing your thesis or you want to submit a manuscript for publication. This workshop will cover the tools researchers use to go beyond the basics to do an exhaustive review of the literature. Learn how to follow the bibliographic trail by using super-googling techniques, World Catalog, cited author references, and bibliographies.

Intended Audience: Faculty, graduate and honors students in the social sciences.

Click here to register.

Using the ideas of others: Citing sources and avoiding plagiarism

Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 2-3:30 pm
USF Tampa Library LIB 209

Workshop Description: Almost all fields of research involve the intensive tracing of theories and ideas already authored. As critical thinkers, we are invited to evaluate, extend, and create our own ideas by examining the fine research available. There’s always an art to science, however, and part of this art involves using the right sources and giving proper credit to the academic achievements already published. This workshop will explore the basics of citation and its many styles, as well as how to avoid plagiarism and use new tools, like RefWorks.

Intended Audience: Faculty, graduate and honors students in all academic areas.

Click here to register.

Citations Cramping Your Style: Use RefWorks

Multiple dates or suggest your own date.
USF Tampa Library

Workshop Description: RefWorks is an online bibliographic management program that allows faculty, students, and staff at USF to create a personal database of references. Learn how to automatically export citations from a search performed in some online databases or enter citations manually and then automatically create your bibliography in a host of styles including APA, MLA, Chicago, or Turabian. RefWorks can also be used to organize your citations by topic. Or, try the Write-n-Cite addon with MicroSoft Word to input in-text citations and automatically generate a bibliography when your paper/article is complete. USF faculty, staff and students have unlimited access to this software.

Intended Audience: Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in any discipline.

Click here to register.

Library Workshops

This semester, the Library is offering the following workshops to help pump up your research skills. Please let your students know.  Hope to see you here!

Alerting Services for the Sciences

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, 10-11:00 am and 2-3:00 pm
USF Tampa Library LIB 209

Workshop Description: What is an Alert Service? Why use an Alert Service? How can it help you with your research? Find out more about how this database service works, how you can use it to streamline your research, and why it is important for you to know how to use it. Set up an alert service using a major scientific database during this workshop.

Intended Audience: Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the sciences.

Click here to register.

Researching the Literature in the Social Sciences:  Beyond the Basics

Friday, February 29, 2008, 2-4:00 pm
USF Tampa Library LIB 209

Workshop Description: You know the basics—the library catalog, the databases in your discipline and many of the tools for coursework and basic projects, but now you want to go deeper either because you are getting ready for writing your thesis or you want to submit a manuscript for publication. This workshop will cover the tools researchers use to go beyond the basics to do an exhaustive review of the literature. Learn how to follow the bibliographic trail by using super-googling techniques, World Catalog, cited author references, and bibliographies.

Intended Audience: Faculty, graduate and honors students in the social sciences.

Click here to register.

Using the ideas of others: Citing sources and avoiding plagiarism

Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 2-3:30 pm
USF Tampa Library LIB 209

Workshop Description: Almost all fields of research involve the intensive tracing of theories and ideas already authored. As critical thinkers, we are invited to evaluate, extend, and create our own ideas by examining the fine research available. There’s always an art to science, however, and part of this art involves using the right sources and giving proper credit to the academic achievements already published. This workshop will explore the basics of citation and its many styles, as well as how to avoid plagiarism and use new tools, like RefWorks.

Intended Audience: Faculty, graduate and honors students in all academic areas.

Click here to register.

Citations Cramping Your Style: Use RefWorks

Multiple dates or suggest your own date.
USF Tampa Library

Workshop Description: RefWorks is an online bibliographic management program that allows faculty, students, and staff at USF to create a personal database of references. Learn how to automatically export citations from a search performed in some online databases or enter citations manually and then automatically create your bibliography in a host of styles including APA, MLA, Chicago, or Turabian. RefWorks can also be used to organize your citations by topic. Or, try the Write-n-Cite addon with MicroSoft Word to input in-text citations and automatically generate a bibliography when your paper/article is complete. USF faculty, staff and students have unlimited access to this software.

Intended Audience: Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in any discipline.

Click here to register.

ISI News

To find out more about the new, forthcoming Web of Knowledge (WoK 4.0):

http://scientific.thomson.com/support/recorded-training/wok/

http://scientific.thomson.com/support/recorded-training/wos/ (For the new version of WoS)

To find out more about EndNote Web:

Recorded Training (EndNote Web)

http://scientific.thomson.com/support/recorded-training/endnoteweb/

 

Live Web-based Training

http://scientific.thomson.com/support/training/webtraining/

The schedule for EndNote Web training is up to date through December. We will be adding more classes for January shortly. If you are interested in scheduling a private web-based training session for your institution please contact the training team at ts.training.americas@thomson.com.

Technical Help Contact Information for EndNote and EndNote Web

http://www.endnoteweb.com/support/entechcontact.asp

 

EndNote Web Quick Reference Cards

To support your own training efforts we are currently producing a Quick Reference Card covering some of the basic features of EndNote Web. To request copies of this for your institution please contact the training team at ts.training.americas@thomson.com

Remember WoK 4.0 is currently in dual release with WoK 3.0. You can get access to it now from the link in the portal bar at the top of the page. The formal release of WoK 4.0 will take place in mid-January. If you are interested in more information or would like to schedule training please contact the training team at ts.training.americas@thomson.com.

Training Opportunities @ Thomson Scientific /ISI

Web-based seminars

Thomson Scientific offers free, web-based training classes.  Once you register for a class, you will be sent instructions on how to connect through WebEx, an online conferencing tool: http://scientific.thomson.com/support/training/

Recorded Training Modules

If you are unable to attend one of the live training sessions, Thomson Scientific has provided a series of recorded training modules that can be accessed any time that you need them: http://scientific.thomson.com/support/recorded-training/wos/

Online Tutorials

Thomson Scientific also provides online tutorials on the following topics: ISI Web of Knowledge, Web of Science, Cited Reference Searching, Current Contents Connect, Biosis Previews, Journal Citation Reports, and Zoological Record:

http://isiwebofknowledge.com/currentuser_wokhome/cu_trainingsupport/