This session will demonstrate how to use one of the premier online databases for searching chemical information, SciFinder. Learn how to: Create a SciFinder Web account Search for articles, structures and reactions Set up automatic search alerts Date: Wednesday, November 4 @ 2:30 PM (1.5 hours)Location: Melville Library, 1st floor,
Turn Your Learn On: YouTube, iTunes and Other Web Multimedia for Researchers Sure YouTube is a lot of fun, but have you ever used it for a class presentation or research project? For the arts, sciences and everything in between there are riches of multimedia content available online. Tap into
Just in time for Halloween, here’s a select list of horror DVDs available right here at the library. DVDs can be checked out for 7 days and in most cases can be renewed online. The DVD collection is located in the Main Stacks on the 3rd floor of the Melville
Melville Library Author Series: Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York featuring April F. Masten, Associate Professor of History. Mary Hallock made what seems like an audacious move for a nineteenth-century young woman. She became an artist. She was not alone. Forced to become self-supporting by financial
Empower Your Browser With Zotero Zotero is a free browser plug-in for Firefox that allows users to collect, manage and cite research sources. Zotero is platform independent and doesn’t discriminate based on institutional affiliation. It is a web-based application that allows access to your library from anywhere. Learn how to:
Managing Your Research Using Endnote: Basic Skills Creating the bibliography is often the most tedious part of writing a research paper. Using EndNote X2, a bibliographic management software program, this task just became much easier. In this workshop learn: How to create an EndNote Library How to download results from
This workshop will cover the basics of the EndNote bibliographic management program with an emphasis on using the tool with PubMed. In this workshop learn: How to create an EndNote Library How to download results from a PubMed literature search into EndNote How to organize your EndNote Library How to
The LexisNexis Academic, Congressional, and Statistical databases will be unavailable beginning Saturday, October 31st, at 9:00pm until Sunday, November 1st, 5:00am.
Web research is like juggling dynamite: done right it’s spectacular, done wrong it blows up in your face. Effective Web research requires training and knowledge of select tools and resources. Learn how to do it right: • 10 rules for effective Web research• Tools and applications for organizing and sharing
This session examines ways to find current and historical articles in newspapers. We’ll look at online indexes and collections of digitized newspapers, as well as explore old-fashioned ways to dig in the newspaper archives. In this workshop, you will: Become familiar with the odd nature of newspaper indexing Effectively search
