Past Workshops

"Journalism is the first draft of history," it is said, but a surprising number of researchers do not know how to identify, access, or search newspapers and magazines in a systematic way. Take your first steps here and suddenly be ahead of the pack.

"Journalism is the first draft of history," it is said, but a surprising number of researchers do not know how to identify, access, or search newspapers and magazines in a systematic way. Take your first steps here and suddenly be ahead of the pack.

Get yourself oriented to new capabilities presented in a new way!

Get yourself oriented to new capabilities presented in a new way!

Numerous government agencies produce information resources on agricultural laws, policies, and programs. This workshop will show how to find and use these resources from historical print materials to contemporary digital resources.

Numerous government agencies produce information resources on agricultural laws, policies, and programs. This workshop will show how to find and use these resources from historical print materials to contemporary digital resources.

Numerous government agencies produce information resources on immigration laws, policies, and programs. This workshop will show how to find and use these resources from historical print materials to contemporary digital resources.

Numerous government agencies produce information resources on immigration laws, policies, and programs. This workshop will show how to find and use these resources from historical print materials to contemporary digital resources.

Ins and outs of locating dissertations both free and for a fee!

Ins and outs of locating dissertations both free and for a fee!

Learn to think across databases in a multidisciplinary approach. Covers Art & Design, Communication, and Philosophy.

Learn to think across databases in a multidisciplinary approach. Covers Art & Design, Communication, and Philosophy.

Purdue now has access to a number of massive online collections of primary texts including EEBO, ECCO, Evans and others. Learn to find what you are looking for!

Purdue now has access to a number of massive online collections of primary texts including EEBO, ECCO, Evans and others. Learn to find what you are looking for!

Introduction and overview of resources (print and electronic) available in support of Latino and Latin American Studies.

Introduction and overview of resources (print and electronic) available in support of Latino and Latin American Studies.

Learn strategies to build your personal research library and use it to enhance the graduate school experience.

Learn strategies to build your personal research library and use it to enhance the graduate school experience.

Materials Made Easy... with CES/Edupack

Searching multiple databases at once using MegaSearch

Introduction to the (New and Improved) Libraries Website

Learn how to use the EndNote citation management program to build your bibliographies and insert citations in MS Word documents.

Learn how to use the EndNote citation management program to build your bibliographies and insert citations in MS Word documents.

Enhancing Your Search

Understanding and applying copyright in your research and teaching.

Tips and Tricks to effective searching

The Library is constantly changing – have you noticed? We have re-vamped our website for better searching, added new databases and more full text e-journals for greater access, added e-books for more anytime/anywhere access, and continue to improve services such as interlibrary loan. Come find out about all the things you never knew we had that could make your research and teaching easier and more efficient.

Understanding and applying copyright in your research and teaching.

Find full-text journal articles and books online with JSTOR, Project MUSE, Google Books, etc.

Are you searching Pubmed as effectively and efficiently as you can? Learn how to use Pubmed to its full potential by selecting the best terms, saving searches, having searches automatically run with results emailed to you weekly, downloading citations into a file for use with EndNote and other citation managers, and much more.

Find full-text journal articles and books online with JSTOR, Project MUSE, Google Books, etc.

Beilstein, Part 1: Data and Property Searching

Learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.

Registration is required

Ins and outs of locating dissertations both free and for a fee!

Introduction to Patent Searching

Web of Science is one of the core databases for science researchers. Come learn how to take advantage of all the features of Web of Science, such as citation searching, using the free EndNote web, accessing journal rankings and impact factors, and much more to improve the effectiveness of your searching.

Learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.

Registration is required

Ins and outs of locating dissertations both free and for a fee!

Thinking across databases in a multidisciplinary approach.

Are we living in the Digital Dark Ages? The lack of best practices and a framework for organizing, preserving, and publishing research data is resulting in valuable datasets becoming lost or discarded. Some funding agencies are beginning to require that researchers include a data management plan in their grant proposals. At many institutions, including Purdue, librarians are exploring their role in data curation. Why should you consider publishing your research data in a repository, and what are some issues and challenges to consider? Along with the topic of data curation, we will discuss Open Access using materials from SPARC and The Right to Research.

Thinking across databases in a multidisciplinary approach.

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.

Registration is required

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.

Registration is required

Beilstein, Part 2: Substance and Reaction Searching

Basic instruction for the individual new to Purdue will help even experienced researchers save time.

Technical information at your fingertips: Online handbooks

Overview of resources available through Purdue Libraries, NCBI, and other institutions.

Search across several databases at once.

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

Registration is required

Strategies to build your personal research library and use it to enhance your graduate school experience.

EndNote Web is FREE to all Purdue students and there is no software to purchase. Come learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.

Registration is required

e-EROS, SPRESIweb, Fieser & Fieser, and more

Harness the all-enveloping power of these and other databases that purport to list “everything”—and make them work for you.

EndNote X2

In the modern information environment, scholars often have the capability to distribute their findings much more broadly than they realize, enhancing visibility of their research and increasing citations to their publications. Mark Newton, the Digital Collections Librarian at Purdue University Libraries, will introduce a new library service, Purdue e-Pubs, which has significant implications for the distribution of and long-term access to research findings.

Explore the amazing dimensions and awesome directions of the world’s greatest search engine and the projects it has spawned.

EndNote Web is FREE to all Purdue students and there is no software to purchase. Come learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.

Registration is required

Learn how to find and use government and nongovernment resources to conduct U.S. federal and state election campaign research.

Learn how to change the default settings in EndNote, how to create and modify reference types, and how to modify output (citation) styles

Registration is required

Learn how to find and use United States, foreign, and international government organization documents to conduct energy public policy and scientific research.

EndNote X2

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

Registration is required

Learn about the variety of statistical resources produced by U.S. federal and state governments and foreign and international government organizations.

Finding scholarly information on the Web: Google Scholar

Learn multiple ways of searching the online version of this resource to find primary source.

EndNote Web is FREE to all Purdue students and there is no software to purchase. Come learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.

Registration is required

Find articles, ERIC documents and testing instruments in the primary databases for research in education.

EndNote Web is FREE to all Purdue students and there is no software to purchase. Come learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.

Registration is required

Learn about this valuable source of unusual and notable global collections available to the Purdue Community on a cooperative basis.

Property Searching and Data Manipulation with Knovel, TPMD, and Web Thermo Tables

Not sure which of Purdue’s over fifty history databases to use? Here is guidance you can use.

Keeping Up with Your Field: Creating information portals

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.

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.

Registration is required

Learn how to change the default settings in EndNote, how to create and modify reference types, and how to modify output (citation) styles

Registration is required