Below are our offerings for August 2011. Please be sure to register at least 24 hours in advance to avoid cancellation. To see the class calendar: http://library.nymc.edu/Calendar/calendar3.cfm. For more information, stop by the Reference Desk or call 914-594-4210.
Copyright: The law, fair use, and how to make it work for you!
Wednesday August 24, 1:00—2:00 Instructor: D. Cunningham
Participants will come away with the ability to: discuss the terms intellectual property and copyright; apply “fair use” to a specific example; identify the copyright requirements for a journal citation and describe how to obtain copyright permission.
Introduction to Health Sciences Library Resources
Friday August 5, 12:00 – 1:30 Instructor: S. Manning
Participants will gain a fundamental knowledge of the various resources and services available in the Health Sciences Library, including the online catalog and how to access them off-campus.
Overview of Electronic Resources
Tuesday August 30, 11:00 – 12:30 (webinar) Instructor: D. Crooke
The Health Sciences Library offers a wide variety of electronic resources containing textbooks, journal articles, and newspaper articles, as well as links to electronic journals. The class provides an overview of these resources, describing format, content, location, and off-campus access, and then explores several of the resources in greater detail.
PowerPoint for Posters
Friday August 19, 10:00 — 11:00 Instructor: S. Manning
This class will show users simple techniques and templates for using PowerPoint to create professional looking posters for conferences, meetings, etc.
RefWorks Fundamentals
Wednesday August 3, 1:00 — 2:30 Instructor: J. Rosario
RefWorks is a management program that allows one to build a bibliographic database. The class focuses on how to download citations from a bibliographic database; search downloaded citations to build a customized reference list for papers; and insert cited references into text while writing a paper to generate a bibliography. PLEASE HAVE YOUR REFWORKS ACCOUNT SET UP PRIOR TO ATTENDING THE CLASS. If you need assistance, see the following page: http://library.nymc.edu/TipSheets/refworks2.cfm or call the Reference Desk at 914-594-4210.
Searching PubMed
Thursday August 4, 1:00 — 2:30 (webinar) Instructor: S. Manning
This class covers the features and search techniques available for searching NLM’s web-based version of MEDLINE, PubMed. Included are the unique search features, how to perform simple and complex searches, how to use limits to narrow a search, as well as how to save and print a search strategy. Also discussed is the use of PubMed Linkout which allows users to link from the search results to full-text articles.
SurveyMonkey Basics
Monday August 22, 1:00 — 2:30 (webinar) Instructor: D. Crooke
Would you like to conduct survey research online? Using web-based SurveyMonkey software, this hands-on session will take you through the basics of designing a survey, collecting responses and downloading results for analysis. Includes instruction related to asking good survey questions, selecting the appropriate question type, applying “skip logic,” setting up a collector for disseminating the survey, and more. No prerequisites
Tech Tuesday
Tuesday July 5, 11:00 — 11:30 Instructor: M. Ascher
The Health Sciences Library offers Tech Tuesday as a means of informing the NYMC community about various innovations that may prove useful in either their professional or personal life.