Autoalerts are brief information updates automatically generated by a database, search engine, journal publisher's website or blog. The alerts are sent to you as either an e-mail or an RSS feed. This is an easy-to-use technique for staying up to date with news and research literature for a specific discipline or topic. This workshop will demonstrate several methods for setting up autoalerts for your work. The class will be taught utilizing science and health science information resources for demonstration purposes.

Learn how to exploit Google to your advantage! Our advanced tips and tricks will help you get the most out of your Google searching. We will also show you how to use Google to find scholarly articles, patents, ebooks, government documents, and more. This class will have a health sciences focus.

Instructor: Martha Hardy

This online class will introduce new users to the features of Refworks, an online bibliographic management program that can be used to store citation data and format bibliographies for research papers and manuscripts. This class will be presented using UMConnect software. For software requirements go to: http://umconnect-support.umn.edu/what/aboutmeetings.html. Link to the online handout here: http://www.lib.umn.edu/refworks/exbook.pdf.

In this introductory workshop, we will explore various definitions of Web 2.0, its history and evolution and defining characteristics of Web 2.0 applications. We will demonstrate a few quick examples of Web 2.0 applications and how they are being used in health sciences education and practice. Finally, we will discuss some pros and cons of using Web 2.0 applications.

Instructors: Nicole Theis-Mahon and Martha Hardy

Learn how to use Google's Blogger tool to create and manage a blog. We will discuss the difference between a blog and a wiki, why you would want to create a blog, and go through the process of creating and editing a blog.

Instructor: Scott Domansky

RefWorks is a Web-based bibliographic management service that allows students, faculty, and staff to create personal databases of references. RefWorks allows you to import directly from databases and formats papers in various citation styles.
Topics covered include: Setting up an account, direct exporting, searching MNCAT/PubMed directly, saving citations and importing, and an introduction to working with MS Word and creating bibliographies.

This class will review the standard structure of a scientific research paper. We will discuss each of the basic components of a research paper; Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion (IMRAD), pointing to common mistakes that can be made in writing the different components.

Instructors: Del Reed and Wayne Loftus

This class will discuss how to prepare and submit a scientific research paper for publication. The main topics discussed will include determining the order of authors, manuscript types, selecting a journal, instructions to authors, and the editorial review process.

Learn how to exploit Google to your advantage! Our advanced tips and tricks will help you get the most out of your Google searching. We will also show you how to use Google to find scholarly articles, patents, ebooks, government documents, and more. This class will have a health sciences focus.

Instructor: Martha Hardy

Google offers much more than a search engine. We will introduce to you free, online tools from Google to help you work collaboratively, stay current, get organized and be more productive in your personal and professional online lives. This class will have a health sciences focus.

Tools covered will include: Google Docs & Spreadsheets, iGoogle, Google Notebook, Google Reader and more.