Classes Offered by Special Arrangements

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Searching tools and resources

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Alternative Medicine

Learn about search strategies, selected databases, and Internet resources on alternative, complementary and herbal medicine. The focus is on electronic resources; however, selected print materials in the Bio-Medical Library collection are also highlighted.

Beyond the Search Bar: PubMed Features Tour

Explore PubMed through a tour highlighting various PubMed features. Areas to be explored include MeSH and journals database, limits / history / details / clipboard, related articles, citation matcher / clinical queries and more. Hands-on exercises available to improve search results.

E-Journals and E-Texts

The Bio-Medical Library subscribes to over 1,600 electronic full text journals that are available to current students, staff, and faculty from on-campus, home, or off-site clinics and hospitals. Several hundred books on health-related topics are also available online. These books include many standard texts (e.g., Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, DSM IV, and Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics (17th ed. 2004)). We can show you how to locate and use these electronic resources effectively and efficiently. E-Resources in the Classroom Evidence-Based Health Care Literature

E-Resources in the Classroom

Whether you teach on campus, via WebCT or as a distance education instructor, the use of electronic resources can greatly enhance your content. Find out what E-Texts and other resources are available and how to best access them for yourself and your students.

Evidence-Based Health Care Literature

Increase your efficiency and effectiveness in finding current, evidence-based clinical information using the Cochrane Library, National Guideline Clearinghouse, MICROMEDEX, and advanced MEDLINE/PubMed searching techniques.

Finding Health and Vital Statistics

Learn traditional resources and major Internet sites and strategies for finding health-related statistics. Areas include notifiable diseases, vital and health statistics, BioMedSearch and Internet resources.

Googling the Net: Expert Internet Searching

Consider yourself an expert at searching the Internet with Google? Did you know that you could:

• Use Boolean logic (And, Or, Not) to focus your searching
• That word order does matter
• Proximity search using "Wild Cards"
• Include "stop" words in a search
• Limit your search to a type of domain, format or where a particular term occurs within a webpage

Keeping Current: Health Information on the Web

Learn how to tap the most current resources for the latest information in the health sciences. Topics will include database-searching methodology, desktop delivery of table of contents and abstracts, and hot sites on the Internet.

Resources for Graduates

You're graduating! How can you meet your continuing information needs once you are no longer a current student at the University of Minnesota? Once you graduate, you still have options for accessing resources and services through the University Libraries. This session will help you learn how to access the information you need as you move on to the next stage of your career.

Nursing Information Databases

Learn how to uncover literature and resources provided for clinical nursing and research. This class will look at the nursing aspects of MEDLINE, the unique properties of the nursing database CINAHL, and a variety of Internet resources including the Virginia Henderson databases.

PubMed

Graduating? Losing your U Access? Search MEDLINE via PubMed? The US government provides free access to MEDLINE to anybody, anywhere in the world. Learn to search MEDLINE through the National Library of Medicine's Web Site via PubMed. Searching PsycINFO, Social Sciences and other non-medical databases An overview of databases such as PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, ERIC and others available online through LUMINA. This review is especially helpful for those working on interdisciplinary projects.

Searching PsycINFO, Social Sciences and other non-medical databases

An overview of databases such as PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, ERIC and others available online through LUMINA. This review is especially helpful for those working on interdisciplinary projects.

TOXNET: Finding Toxicology information on the World Wide Web

http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov

TOXNET, from the National Library of Medicine, consists of several databases that contain article citations, research summaries, toxic release statistics, and other data about chemicals and drugs. Strategies for locating information about toxicology using TOXNET will be covered in this class.