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WorldCat: The World at Your Fingertips on 11/4

What if there was a catalog that you could use to search almost all the books, DVDs, articles, music and other materials in all the libraries in the world? There is! With WorldCat you can: Find materials in libraries near

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SciFinder Web Workshop on 11/4 @ 2:30 PM

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

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Turn Your Learn On Workshop on 11/3 @ 1:30 PM

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

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Zotero Workshop on 10/28

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

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Southampton Library Workshops on 10/27 and 10/28

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

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Using EndNote and PubMed Workshop on 10/27

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

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Get Your Learn On: Web Research 2.0

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

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Extra! Extra! Become an Expert at Finding New & Historic Newspaper Articles!

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

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Research Skills for Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies on 10/20 @ 12 PM

This workshop will focus on the skills needed to do advanced research in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. Learn: Where to find information (books, articles, and websites) Which resources are best for your subject area About the strengths of Stony

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Empower Your Browser with Zotero on 10/20 @ 7 PM Online

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

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