Register for a Class! *Name:   *E-mail:   *Phone Number:   *Affiliation: UMMSM - Faculty UMMSM - Staff UMMSM - Resident/Intern UMMSM - Student UM Nursing - Faculty UM Nursing - Staff UM Nursing - Student UM Other - Faculty UM Other - Staff UM Other - Student JHS - Faculty JHS - Nurses JHS - Staff Other All classes are held in the Calder Library's 3rd Floor Electronic Classroom. Registration is limited to 20 participants per session. Class/Database descriptions are available below. September Offerings PubMed – Wednesday September 3, 2008 – Noon-1:00 CINAHL – Thursday September 4, 2008 – Noon-1:00 QUOSA – Wednesday September 10, 2008 – 12:15-1:15pm Scopus – Wednesday September 17, 2008 – Noon-1:00 RefWorks – Thursday September 18, 2008 – Noon-1:00 QUOSA – Tuesday September 23, 2008 – Noon-1:00 October Offerings PubMed – Wednesday October 1, 2008 – Noon-1:00 CINAHL – Thursday October 2, 2008 – Noon-1:00 RefWorks – Wednesday October 8, 2008 – Noon-1:00 QUOSA – Tuesday October 14, 2008 – Noon-1:00 Advanced CINAHL – Wednesday October 15, 2008 – Noon-1:00 CINAHL – Tuesday October 28, 2008 – Noon-1:00 PubMed – Wednesday October 29, 2008 – Noon-1:00 QUOSA – Thursday October 30, 2008 – Noon-1:00 November Offerings CINAHL – Thursday November 13, 2008 – Noon-1:00 PubMed – Tuesday November 18, 2008 – Noon-1:00 RefWorks – Wednesday November 19, 2008 – Noon-1:00 QUOSA – Thursday November 20, 2008 – Noon-1:00 December Offerings Advanced PubMed – Wednesday December 3, 2008 – Noon-1:00 QUOSA – Thursday December 4, 2008 – Noon-1:00 PubMed – Wednesday December 10, 2008 – Noon-1:00 CINAHL – Thursday December 11, 2008 – Noon-1:00 QUOSA – Tuesday December 16, 2008 – Noon-1:00 RefWorks – Wednesday December 17, 2008 – Noon-1:00   Questions, Comments or Concerns? Please call the Reference, Education & Outreach Services Department at (305) 243-6648. Class Descriptions: Biosis Previews Get an introduction to BIOSIS Previews®. A database encompassing the entire field of life sciences and providing comprehensive coverage of the world’s published biological and biomedical research. This includes traditional areas of biology, such as botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as experimental, clinical and veterinary medicine, biotechnology, environmental studies, and agriculture. Interdisciplinary fields such as biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering are also included. More than 6,500 serials are monitored for inclusion.   CINAHL Begin to use Ebsco Host's interface to the Cummulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. CINAHL Plus provides indexing for 3,265 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,230 journals. Full text material includes nearly 80 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.   Advanced CINAHL This class takes a more in-depth look at how to search CINAHL and how to use this important specialty database to meet your information needs.   Embase Get an introduction to EMBASE which provides the content that keeps you up to date with the latest scientific developments. EMBASE provides comprehensive timely access to pharmacological and biomedical literature. With more than 18 million records, EMBASE indexes more than 7000 journals from over 70 countries. The easy-to-use interface allows you to choose from a variety of search methods including: search forms, quick search, advanced search, field search, drug search, disease search, and article search. Embase allows you to organize searches or entire sessions into named folders for future use.   PubMed PubMed provides free access to MEDLINE, NLM's database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. In this class you will set up and configure a My NCBI account and learn how to use your My NCBI account to save your search strategies, have those strategies automatically run with only new results sent to your email or how you can save collections of references for future use. You will also get a medical subject headings and use of limits refresher.   Advanced PubMed This class takes a more in-depth look at how to search PubMed and how to use this important biomedical database to meet your information needs.   QUOSA QUOSA “streamlines and turbo-charges literature retrieving, organizing, searching and sharing.” In the training sessions you will learn to retrieve all or selected full-text from your PubMed or Ovid search with one click, organize article collections, search across the full-text of the articles you retrieve, and how to share everything with colleagues, sync with RefWorks, and integrate with any electronic text.   RefWorks: a Citing and Bibliograpy Creation Tool Get an introduction to this web-based bibliography and database manager, used to easily create personal databases of imported references from text files or online databases, that facilitates reference storage, retrieval, and formatting for publication. This resource is similar to EndNote, Reference Manager or Procite. If you spend more than an hour formating your references for your paper's bibliography then you are working way to hard. Sign-up and we'll show you how citing within your paper and creating your paper's bibliography can take only minutes.   Scopus Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Allowing the opposite of the typical backtracking through older and older bibliographies, Scopus citation analysis helps you to find the newest research which has sprung from the important references you have already identified. Its also a great tool for helping you see how your body of work has impacted the larger community. Come in for the class and we will take it for a spin.