Short Courses

Other Learning Opportunities at U.Va. and Online

Courses, tutorials, consultation services, etc. in all U.Va. locations and online

Short Courses in the Curry Library Innovation Commons

At this time there are no Short Courses being offered. If you need personal assistance, contact one of the CLIC librarians.

Online Tutorials and Webinars

WEBINARS BY REFWORKS

RefWorks User Education Services has a series of RefWorks training webinars scheduled each month that are available to all current RefWorks subscribers. Registration is complimentary, but each session is limited to 50 people per class and registration is required. Registration does not guarantee attendance.

Use the link below for session titles, dates, times, and registration.

http://www.refworks.com/content/webinars/default.asp

EBSCOhost Tutorials

EBSCO provides Adobe Flash tutorials and PowerPoint tutorials for its EBSCOhost resources. Most of the tutorials are under four minutes long. To access the tutorials go to:

http://support.epnet.com/training/tutorials.php
Introduction to EBSCOhost 2.0 (runtime 6.18 minutes)

Advanced Search with Guided Style (runtime 8.13 min)

Advanced Search with Single Find Field including Creating
Search and Journal Alerts ( runtime 3 minutes)

Basic Searching for Academic Libraries (runtime 5.25 min)

How to Create Search and Journal Alerts (runtime 3.52 min)

The My EBSCOhost Personalization Folder (runtime 3.45 min)

Visual Search (runtime 5.30 min)

ISI Web of Knowledge/Web of Science

Classes are conducted over the Internet

Live Training (60 minute sessions)

http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/training/wok/#live_training

See the webpage above for session dates and times.

Recorded Training (Times vary. See individual sessions.)

http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/training/wok/#recorded_training

Search Tips for Web of Science Learn tips to help you search Web of Science effectively, including tips on using search operators and wildcard characters (07:33 minutes)

Citation Alerting Learn how to keep up to date on who is citing your work or the work of others within your field of research. (4:17 minutes)

Cited Reference Searching Learn the basics of Web of Science's citation search capabilities (06:54 minutes)

Managing Search Results Find out how to export, print, e-mail and save records in the Web of Knowledge (04:14 minutes)

All Databases Search Learn about searching more than one database simultaneously within the ISI Web of Knowledge (05:15 minutes)

Saving Search Histories and Creating Alerts Learn how to save your histories and receive e-mail alerts (05:45 minutes)

ERIC Tutorials

ERIC, http://www.eric.ed.gov, provides brief, animated tutorials to help searchers take advantage of the many features offered on the ERIC Web site. ERIC is continuing to develop tutorials on a variety of help topics. Select from the links below to launch a tutorial.

Author Search using Full Name (40 secs.)

Author Search using Last Name (35 secs.)

Author Search using Last Name, First Initial (45 secs.)

Author Search for Multiple Authors (1 min.)

Combining Descriptors (1 min. 4 secs.)

Finding the Right Descriptor (2 min. 12 secs.)

Is Full Text Available from ERIC? (32 secs.)

Keyword vs. Descriptor Search (1 min. 23 secs.)

Narrowing Your Search Results (49 secs.)

Other Sources for Full Text (1 min. 51 secs.)

Phrase Search (55 secs.)

Removing Terms from a Narrowed Search (1 min. 14 secs.)

Search Results (2 min. 20 secs.)

Truncating Terms in a Search (1 min.)

Using a Wildcard in a Search (1 min. 20 secs.)

For more personal instruction, please contact one of the librarians in residence to arrange a one-on-one consultation or a small group session for your information needs. We enjoy the opportunity to work with you on your unique research questions.

Librarians in Residence
Carole C. Lohman at ccl5u@virginia.edu or 434.924.7040