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Monday, September 8, 2008
SciFinder Scholar: Enhancing Your Search
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Instructor: Prof. Jeremy Garritano
Location: WTHR 201
Enhancing Your Search
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Monday, September 8, 2008
SciFinder Scholar: Enhancing Your Search
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Instructor: Prof. Jeremy Garritano
Location: WTHR 201
Enhancing Your Search
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Donna Ferullo
Location: CSC
Understanding and applying copyright in your research and teaching.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Compendex / INSPEC
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Instructor:
Location: POTR 234, Fu Room
Tips and Tricks to effective searching
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Donna Ferullo
Location: CSC
Understanding and applying copyright in your research and teaching.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Robert Freeman
Location: CSC
Find full-text journal articles and books online with JSTOR, Project MUSE, Google Books, etc.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Robert Freeman
Location: CSC
Find full-text journal articles and books online with JSTOR, Project MUSE, Google Books, etc.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Beilstein, Part 1
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Instructor:
Location: WTHR 201
Beilstein, Part 1: Data and Property Searching
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Time: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: N/A
Location: HIKS Rm G959
Learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Jean-Pierre Herubel
Location: CSC
Ins and outs of locating dissertations both free and for a fee!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Patent Searching
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Instructor:
Location: POTR 234, Fu Room
Introduction to Patent Searching
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Instructor: N/A
Location: HIKS Rm G959
Learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Jean-Pierre Herubel
Location: CSC
Ins and outs of locating dissertations both free and for a fee!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Multidisciplinary Databases: Art, Communication, Philosophy
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Jean-Pierre Herubel
Location: CSC
Thinking across databases in a multidisciplinary approach.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Jean-Pierre Herubel
Location: CSC
Thinking across databases in a multidisciplinary approach.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Instructor: N/A
Location: HIKS Rm G959
Assumes familiarity with searching and using the Libraries' databases. Learn how to create an EndNote library using the four different ways to enter citations into an EndNote library. Also, learn how to use EndNote's Cite While Your Write (CWYW) functions to create citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Time: 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Instructor: N/A
Location: LILY Rm G431
Assumes familiarity with searching and using the Libraries' databases. Learn how to create an EndNote library using the four different ways to enter citations into an EndNote library. Also, learn how to use EndNote's Cite While Your Write (CWYW) functions to create citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Beilstein, Part 2
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Instructor:
Location: WTHR 201
Beilstein, Part 2: Substance and Reaction Searching
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Robert Freeman
Location: CSC
Basic instruction for the individual new to Purdue will help even experienced researchers save time.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Online handbooks
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Instructor:
Location: POTR 234, Fu Room
Technical information at your fingertips: Online handbooks
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professors Judith Nixon and Kristine Anderson
Location: CSC
Search across several databases at once.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: N/A
Location: HIKS Rm G959
Assumes familiarity with searching and using the Libraries' databases. Learn how to create an EndNote library using the four different ways to enter citations into an EndNote library. Also, learn how to use EndNote's Cite While Your Write (CWYW) functions to create citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Kristine Anderson
Location: CSC
Strategies to build your personal research library and use it to enhance your graduate school experience.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Information Resources for Organic Synthesis
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Instructor:
Location: WTHR 201
e-EROS, SPRESIweb, Fieser & Fieser, and more
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Larry Mykytiuk
Location: CSC
Harness the all-enveloping power of these and other databases that purport to list “everything”—and make them work for you.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
EndNote X2
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Instructor:
Location: POTR 234, Fu Room
EndNote X2
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Larry Mykytiuk
Location: CSC
Explore the amazing dimensions and awesome directions of the world’s greatest search engine and the projects it has spawned.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Bert Chapman
Location: CSC
Learn how to find and use government and nongovernment resources to conduct U.S. federal and state election campaign research.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Instructor: N/A
Location: HIKS Rm G959
Learn how to change the default settings in EndNote, how to create and modify reference types, and how to modify output (citation) styles
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Bert Chapman
Location: CSC
Learn how to find and use United States, foreign, and international government organization documents to conduct energy public policy and scientific research.
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Monday, November 3, 2008
EndNote X2
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Instructor:
Location: WTHR 201
EndNote X2
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Instructor: N/A
Location: HIKS Rm G959
Assumes familiarity with searching and using the Libraries' databases. Learn how to create an EndNote library using the four different ways to enter citations into an EndNote library. Also, learn how to use EndNote's Cite While Your Write (CWYW) functions to create citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Bert Chapman.
Location: CSC
Learn about the variety of statistical resources produced by U.S. federal and state governments and foreign and international government organizations.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Google Scholar
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Instructor:
Location: POTR 234, Fu Room
Finding scholarly information on the Web: Google Scholar
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Bert Chapman
Location: CSC
Learn multiple ways of searching the online version of this resource to find primary source.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Judy Nixon
Location: CSC
Find articles, ERIC documents and testing instruments in the primary databases for research in education.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professors Kristine Anderson & Larry Mykytiuk.
Location: CSC
Learn about this valuable source of unusual and notable global collections available to the Purdue Community on a cooperative basis.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Property Searching and Data Manipulation
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Instructor:
Location: WTHR 201
Property Searching and Data Manipulation with Knovel, TPMD, and Web Thermo Tables
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professor Larry Mykytiuk
Location: CSC
Not sure which of Purdue’s over fifty history databases to use? Here is guidance you can use.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Creating information portals
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Instructor:
Location: POTR 234, Fu Room
Keeping Up with Your Field: Creating information portals
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Instructor: Professors Larry Mykytiuk and Judy Nixon
Location: CSC
Company Annual Reports sent to stock holders contain a wealth of historic information about the company, the industry and the social situation. Learn how to find these online, on microfiche or from our large print collection.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Time: 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Instructor: N/A
Location: HIKS Rm G959
Assumes familiarity with searching and using the Libraries' databases. Learn how to create an EndNote library using the four different ways to enter citations into an EndNote library. Also, learn how to use EndNote's Cite While Your Write (CWYW) functions to create citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Time: 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Instructor: N/A
Location: HIKS Rm G959
Learn how to change the default settings in EndNote, how to create and modify reference types, and how to modify output (citation) styles