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The Library offers training on different databases and electronic resources:
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RefWorks
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Monday, February 4
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4:30-5:30 p.m.
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RSS and Library Databases
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Friday, February 8
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11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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RefWorks
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Monday, February 11
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noon-1 p.m.
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Finding DOIs
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Friday, February 15
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11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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Web of Science
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Monday, February 25
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4-5 p.m.
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RefWorks
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Friday, February 29
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2:30-3:30 p.m.
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After February, we will have no scheduled classes. If, however, you would like to schedule an individual training session in RefWorks, contact Betsy Park (email: ehpark@memphis.edu; telephone: 901-678-8214).
The following online training and help pages may also be helpful:
ABI:Inform Business Databases
Biblioline Music Databases (ILM, RIPM, RISM)
CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
CSA Illumina
(Cambridge Scientific databases, PsycInfo, Bibliography of the History of Art)
EBSCOHost Databases
(Business Source Premier, CINAHL, Communication and Mass Media Complete)
- EBSCO Basic
- EBSCO Basic (French)
- EBSCO Basic (Spanish)
- EBSCO Advanced
- EBSCO International Resources (training in many languages--French, Spanish, German,
Italian, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese,
Korean, Russian, Turkish, Greek, and Arabic.
IEEExplore
JSTOR
LexisNexis Academic
MEDLINE (OVIDSP platform)
OVID (OVIDSP platform)
PubMed
RefWorks
ScienceDirect
Web of Knowledge,
material available in several languages
- Web of Science Recorded Training, topics--citation reports, general search, cited reference searching, managing results, cited author searching, cited reference searching--non-journal literature, cited reference searching--arts & humanities
- Web of Knowledge Recorded Training, topics--new features, refining and analyzing, citation alerts, searching within results
- Current Contents Connect Recorded Training, topics--introduction, saving searches, setting up alerts, using the marked list, personalizing a journal list
- Journal Citation Reports Recorded Training
, topics--the Impact Factor and the Immediacy Index
- Essential Science Indicators Recorded Training
, topics--introduction, baselines
- EndNote Web Recorded Training
, topics--using the EndNote application in WoK (NOTE: the UofM subscribes to RefWorks. If you have never used a bibliographic citation manager, we recommend that you use RefWorks. If you are a regular user of EndNote, you may be interested in the EndNote Web product.
Help is also available by calling the Research and Information Services Desk (678-2208) or using the Ask-a-Librarian link. While the Chat option connects you to one of many librarians at many universities, the e-mail option connects you to a UofM librarian.
For further information about database training, contact:
Kay Cunningham
Electronic Resources Librarian
McWherter Library
Reference Department
901-678-4345
lkcnnngh@memphis.edu
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