Note: In addition to the workshops listed below, any of our Research Guides can be turned into a workshop.

• Finding Information
  
  
• Managing Information
  
  
• Introduction to the Library

 Finding Information:

Databases

CINAHL and Other Information Resources for Nurses
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) indexes the nursing and allied health literature. This workshop covers searching tips and techniques and accessing full-text journal articles. We’ll also look at other useful web-based resources, including sources of information for patients. Hands-on time is included in this workshop.

MEDLINE workshops:

• MEDLINE: Getting Started with PubMed
  This workshop will cover the basics of using PubMed to find journal articles. We'll discuss how to select and combine search terms to develop an effective search strategy. We'll demonstrate tools found in PubMed, such as the limits, clipboard and "details" functions, that can make your searching more efficient. We'll also show you how to access the full text of articles you find. Hands-on time is included in this workshop.
• MEDLINE: Advanced Strategies for Effective PubMed Searching*
  This workshop is for people who have some experience searching MEDLINE (via Ovid or PubMed) who want to learn more advanced features of the PubMed interface: searching with medical subject headings (MeSH), clinical queries, utilizing the citation matcher, saving searches and autoalerts, and other My NCBI features. Hands-on time is included in this workshop. Prerequisite: MEDLINE: Getting Started with PubMed or comparable experience. Check with the education coordinator (Biomedical.Libraries.Education@dartmouth.edu) if unsure.
• MEDLINE for Researchers
  MEDLINE is a rich source of information for researchers – as well as for clinical information. PubMed MEDLINE allows for linking to integrated molecular biology databases; Web of Science MEDLINE allows for citation tracking and analysis of results. This workshop will enable you to take advantage of the strengths of each of the interfaces.

NCBI Genetics Resources: Getting Started
This introductory workshop will focus on databases with genetic and protein information, including Nucleotide, Protein, and Structure. Data minining tools such as the BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) for nucleotide and protein sequences will also be demonstrated.

PsycINFO* and MEDLINE: Finding Psychiatry and Psychology Information
Finding psychiatry and psychology information often requires using two databases. PsycINFO indexes the world's literature in psychology and related disciplines, including linguistics, medicine, law, physiology, business, psychiatry, and anthropology. MEDLINE indexes the medical literature, including psychiatry journals. This workshop provides an overview of both databases, their subject coverage, and searching strategies.

Web of Science: Beyond MEDLINE for Literature Searches
If you are a researcher in the life sciences, there are good reasons to complement your MEDLINE search with a Web of Science search. First, Web of Science offers wider coverage of the literature in terms of subject areas, time (from 1900 to present) and type of literature (journal articles, meeting abstracts, patents and more). Second, Web of Science has some features not found in MEDLINE. For instance, you can do citation searching (which articles cited a particular article) and use the analyze tool to categorize your results by author, institution, year and more.

Multiple Resources

Business Resources for Health Care
Are you a manager or administrator? Do you often need benchmarking data, statistics, product information, or knowledge about current trends in the health care industry to help you make those important decisions? Let us show you the various resources, tools, and services available from your desktop, including Medline, Business Source Premier, Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, Medical & Healthcare Marketplace Guide, and tables of contents services.

Evidence-Based Medicine: Finding Answers to Clinical Questions - Quickly and Effectively
Do you need to quickly find the "best" evidence on which to base patient care? This workshop will help you identify the most appropriate resources and employ effective search strategies. We'll explore resources that filter the data for you (e.g., Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, BMJ's Clinical Evidence, ACP Journal Club, National Guideline Clearinghouse). We'll also use tricks in MEDLINE to help you get to the highest level of evidence as efficiently as possible.

Finding Published Articles: Medline, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Summon
Google Scholar and Summon have profoundly changed the literature searching landscape. This workshop compares four major resources for finding articles in the biomedical literature. How are they different? Which one should you use? Which one would you got to first? Is there a "best"?

Google Explorations: A Fun Overview
In this workshop, we will explore Google and many of its parts. We’ll cover basic searching, some tricks, and searching for people, images, maps, and news. We’ll discuss some alternatives to Google; how to evaluate the results you get from a search; how to share results with others. This workshop is a quick, fun introduction to searching the web with Google.

Google: Let’s Get Serious
In this workshop, we will explore the use of Google, Google Scholar, and Google Books in our professional, academic, scholarly, biomedical work. How do these compare to MEDLINE and Web of Science and Dartmouth’s Catalog? When should you use them? When do you trust them? What is their scope? How do we get to full-text? How do you evaluate, share, and cite these resources? How can Google Scholar help with your MEDLINE searches? If you’re a Google beginner, please consider our introductory workshop, “Google Explorations: A Fun Overview.”

Guiding Your Patients to Reliable Health Information on the Web
It’s been well-established that patients seek health information online. Health care providers can offer patients guidance and direction to reliable websites. This workshop will point you to authoritative web resources for patient and consumer health education, demonstrate several of the better sites, and offer tips on evaluating web health care information.

 Managing Information:

Copyright and Fair Use: What Clinicians and Educators Need to Know
Want answers to your questions about copyright and fair use? Wondering if you need to secure copyright permission before dropping that image - chart, picture, graph - into your PowerPoint presentation? If you can provide the full text of your recent journal articles on your Web site? What do clinicians/educators need to know about copyright and fair use, really? This workshop will identify resources that can answer these important questions.

EndNote: Managing Citations and Bibliographies
Managing your references is a critical part of the research process. EndNote and Refworks are two programs that can help. Like Refworks, EndNote can import references from article indexes (e.g., MEDLINE), organize references in a database, and insert citations into your paper. EndNote is purchased and installed on your hard drive. It is a sophisticated program with full functionality in Mac and Windows, Word, WordPerfect, and other word-processing software. This workshop will cover importing references into EndNote and using it in writing papers.

Image Editing Made Easy
This workshop will cover the basic features of Adobe's Photoshop Elements application. Elements is a very user-friendly (and inexpensive) version of Photoshop, providing many of the same tools but without being overwhelming. This hands-on session will discuss image resolutions, show you how to crop, correct colors, add text to, and quickly clean up your images.

Medical Images: Finding, Downloading, and Managing Them
Need a specific medical digital image for your next PowerPoint presentation? This seminar will provide recipes for finding medical digital images on the web and for using them in PowerPoint presentations and publications.

PowerPoint Presentations: Getting Started
This workshop introduces the principles of effective electronic presentations and their practical application using the basic features of Microsoft PowerPoint. Topics include creating and working with presentation files, adding and modifying text, outlining, and incorporating graphics, charts and graphs. Hands-on time is included in this workshop.

PowerPoint Presentations: Advanced Tips and Tricks
This hands-on workshop will help you customize your PowerPoint presentations with images, templates, slide transition, and animation effects. We'll also show you how to create a poster. Hands-on time is included in this workshop. Prerequisite: PowerPoint Presentations: Getting Started or comparable experience. Check with the education coordinator (Biomedical.Libraries.Education@dartmouth.edu) if unsure.

Refworks: Managing Citations and Bibliographies
Managing your references is a critical part of the research process. EndNote and Refworks are two programs that can help. Like EndNote, Refworks can import references from article indexes (e.g., MEDLINE), organize references in a database, and insert citations into your paper. RefWorks is free to Dartmouth and DHMC. It is web-based so your database of references can be accessed from any computer connected to the internet. This workshop will cover importing references into Refworks and using it in writing papers.

SurveyMonkey: Introduction to Creating and Managing Online Surveys
SurveyMonkey allows you to create and administer online surveys. In this introductory, hands-on workshop you'll learn to how to create surveys, the options for distributing them and how to view and share survey results. You'll have a chance to work with the basic (free) version of SurveyMonkey. We'll demonstrate the additional features available through the professional (paid) version.

Using New Tools and Technology to Keep Current with Research in Your Field
Keeping up with current biomedical research can be daunting; technology can help. There are a number of services that will alert you as new information becomes available--literature, news, conferences and more. In this workshop we will demonstrate how to set up customized e-mail alerts (you choose the topics) from article indexes such as Ovid Medline, Web of Science, and the new service available through PubMed. You'll also learn about a new current awareness tool, RSS feeds. RSS feeds are an easy way to get formatted, up-to-date headlines from many Web sources, compiled and presented to you in your browser, with links to the full content. You can choose from channels (feeds) that interest you, add them to your aggregator program, then sit back and let all the new information come to you. We'll show you how to set up an aggregator and stock it with RSS channels that interest you -- you take it from there.

 Introduction to the Library:

"Back to School" Workshop
Designed specifically for individuals pursuing higher education, this workshop provides an overview of Biomedical Libraries resources and services. It includes how to use the online catalog to look up books and journals and locate these materials in the library. A brief overview of locally available computer databases and a tour of the library is also included.

Getting Started With Your Research: An Introduction to the Biomedical Libraries
Are you new to the Dartmouth community? Returning to school? If you haven't had an opportunity to explore the many resources and services available to you through the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries, then this workshop is for you! We will introduce you to the Dartmouth Library online catalog, provide an overview of the many electronic resources available to you right from your desktop, show you how to access books and journal articles from both our collections and beyond, and register you for borrowing privileges.

Library Phobia: Conquering the Anxiety
Do you break out in a sweat at the thought of having to find something in the library? Come and take a tour, meet the staff, and get all your questions answered. We'll show you how to access the library from your computer desktop and how to get books and journal articles. Hands-on experience with the computer is included – we’ll hold your hand through it all!

Library Tour and Orientation
A walking tour of Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library, and discussion about the various Biomedical Libraries services. Also includes a brief introduction to the Biomedical Libraries Web, from which you can access all Biomedical Libraries' resources and services.

Requesting Articles and Books via DartDoc, PubMed, and Other Databases
You've identified an article or book you want to read - now how do you obtain it? DartDoc is Dartmouth's system for requesting copies of articles and books. This workshop will show you how to best take advantage of DartDoc's many features, including delivery of articles right to your desktop and submitting requests automatically from PubMed, Ovid, and other databases.

Support Staff Seminar: Library Skills 101
An introduction to Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries services designed specifically for secretaries, administrative assistants, research assistants, and clerical staff. Includes a tour of Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library, explanation of services, and a brief presentation of MEDLINE and Dartmouth's DartDoc document delivery system.