Library Workshops
The UMBC Library offers workshops on a variety of topics in order to help you use library resources more efficiently and effectively. They are free to all UMBC faculty, staff and students.
To register, please follow the registration instructions for each workshop.
If you cannot attend our scheduled workshops, you can request an on-demand session for yourself or a group of your students or colleagues. To make a request, please email us at infolit@lists.umbc.edu.
| Endnote Web |
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You will learn how to utilize the full range of features included in this free (to UMBC affiliates) web-accessible citation manager. This workshop will explore creating an EndNote Web account, collecting and editing references, organizing and sharing references, formatting a bibliography, and using the Cite While You WriteTM plug-in. See the EndNote Web online tutorial by Thompson Reuters. Time and location: Instructor: |
| Web of Knowledge |
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You will learn how to use the full capabilities of this multidisciplinary database that provides literature access to the highest-quality journals across the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences. This hands-on workshop will focus on cited and citing reference searching, filtering and analyzing search results and setting up search alert emails or RSS feeds. See the Web of Knowledge online tutorial by Thompson Reuters. Time and location: Instructor: |
| Google Scholar |
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You will learn how to use the full capabilities of this search engine. This hands-on workshop will focus on ways to locate diverse resources (articles, theses, papers, and books,) how to import Google Scholar citations into EndNote bibliographic manager, and how to configure Google Scholar to link to full text subscription resources available through your library. In addition, you will receive a lot of search tips for using Google, including limiting searches within a domain or site etc. Time and location: Instructor: |
| Online Workshops on Databases |
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See the recorded workshops available at Database Webinars web page . |
