Library Workshop Handouts

Handouts and Tutorials

Note: Many of these handouts are in Portable Document Format (pdf) and require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. The reader provides both viewing and printing capabilities and can be configured to launch automatically from within a Web browser. Once Adobe Acrobat is downloaded and installed, the documents linked here can be viewed and printed.

Bibliographic Management
To search the University of Utah Libary Catalog in EndNote, add the following connection filter.
Connection filter: Save and place this filter in the appropriate place.

Windows PC: Program Files > EndNote X4 or X5 > Connections
Mac: Applications > EndNote X4 or X5 > Connections

EndNote (version X5)

EndNote Workflow in PDF
EndNote for Mac
- EndNote for Mac handout in PDF format.
- Practice Document (Control + Click and save to your computer.)
EndNote for Windows
- EndNote X5 Combined Exercises: This PDF contains all of the below documents as well as the above Workflow chart in one document.
- Exercise 1: Create an EndNote X5 Library, Search PubMed from within EndNote, Create a Group, Find Full Text and Review Records.
- Exercise 1A: Tab Pane: Preview, Search and PDF & Quick Edit Tab
- Exercise 2: Save PubMed citations and import Citations from PubMed Text File to an EndNote X5 library - in PDF.
- Exercise 3: Perform a search in CINAHL, Add Citations to a folder, and Export Citations to EndNote X5 - in PDF.
- Exercise 4: Use Cite While You Write with MS Word 2007 to Create In-Text Citations and a Bibliography at the End of the Paper.
- Exercise 5: Journals Term List and Editing an Output Style to Include Full Journal Names Adding Connection Files, Filters and Styles -- in PDF.
- Exercise 6: APA 6th and DOI Edit an In-Text Citation; Edit an Output Style -- in PDF.
- Exercise 7: Saving a Compressed Copy of an EndNote X5 Library and Sharing a Library Using EndNote Web -- in PDF.

EndNote (version X4)

EndNote Workflow in PDF
EndNote X4 for Mac
- EndNote for Mac Handout
- Practice Document
EndNote X4 for Windows
- EndNote X4 Combined Exercises: This PDF contains all of the below documents as well as the above Workflow chart in one document.
  - EndNote Quick Start
  - Exercise 1: Create an EndNote X4 Library, Search PubMed from within EndNote,
    Create a Group, Find Full Text, Review Records -- in PDF
  - Exercise 2: Save PubMed Citations and Import Citations from PubMed
    Text File to an EndNote X4 Library -- in PDF
  - Exercise 3: Perform a Search in CINAHL, Add Citations to a Folder,
    and Export Citations to EndNote X4 -- in PDF
  - Exercise 4: Use Cite While You Write with MS Word 2007 to Create
    In-Text Citations and a Bibliography at the End of the Paper -- in PDF
  - Exercise 5: Journals Term List and Editing an Output Style to Include Full
    Journal Names Adding Connection Files, Filters and Styles -- in PDF
  - Exercise 6: APA 6th and DOI Edit an In-Text Citation; Edit an Output Style -- in PDF
  - Exercise 7: Saving a Compressed Copy of an EndNote X4 Library and Sharing
    a Library Using EndNote Web -- in PDF
  - Exercise 8: Import PDF Folder with PDF Files to Create EndNote Records -- in PDF

To automatically remove the PII from the EndNote record DOI field: place the following files in your EndNote Program Folder. Once you have added the files to the folders, be sure to select and use these filters from the Filter and Connection managers.

PubMed(NLM)-remove-pii.enz (place in the Connection folder)
PubMed(NLM).enf (place in the Filter folder to replace the current file)

EndNote Web

Quick Reference Card
Exercises for class
EndNote Web tutorial from Thomson Reuters

Reference Manager (version 10)

Brief Instructions for Use in PDF

Captivate - Recording and Publishing a PowerPoint Presentation

Captivate instructions in PDF

CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature

Searching tutorial, EBSCOhost interface with nursing focus
Searching tutorial, EBSCOhost interface with physical therapy focus
Searching tutorial, EBSCOhost interface with occupational therapy focus
CINAHL Headings
CINAHL Wildcard-Truncation
Differences between CINAHL, MEDLINE and the Library Catalog
Search Strategy Decision Tree from Cinahl Inc.,

Excel

Excel 2008 for Mac
- Excel for Mac Overview Handout - in PDF format
- Exercises - in Excel format
- Exercise Import File - in TXT format

Excel 2007 for Windows
- Excel for Windows Overview Handout - in PDF format
- Exercises - in Excel format
- Exercise Import File - in TXT format

Full Text Databases

Academic Universe (legal, legislative, medical. etc.)
ProQuest (business sources and newspapers)

Health Source - Consumer Edition

Health Source - Consumer Edition (EBSCOhost database)
MedlinePlus and Health Source - Consumer Edition Practice Questions

Mac Basics

Mac Basics Handout in PDF

Mac Tips & Tricks

Mac Tips & Tricks Handout in PDF

NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Workshops
Webinars presented by Peter Cooper, Ph.D. (cooper@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Director, Scientific Outreach and Training Program, NCBI, National Library of Medicine.

NCBI Overview (27 June 2011)
- NCBI Overview slides in PDF
- NCBI Overview 'Hands On' Worksheet in PDF

NCBI - What's New (29 June 2011)
- What's New - slides in PDF

NCBI BLAST - Basic Local Alignment Seach Tool (15 July 2011)
- BLAST Demonstration handout in PDF
- BLAST Powerpoint slides in PDF

NCBI Genomes Update (18 July 2011)
- NCBI Genomes Update handout in PDF

PubMED for searching MEDLINE

Limiting to age group, sex, type of article, etc... in PubMed
Automatic Term Mapping
Hints & Extras
MeSH versus Text Words (Medical Subject Heading)
My NCBI: Saving Search Strategies and Automatic Email Updates
Publication Types
PubMed Basics - trifold brochure
Searching PubMed with MeSH - trifold brochure
PubMed - My NCBI - trifold brochure
Search Field Qualifier Tags
Structure of the MEDLINE Record in PubMed (the MEDLINE display format)
MeSH Subheadings and Other Features of the MeSH Database (animated tutorial)

MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Searching (critical evaluation of consumer health websites)

My NCBI Quick Tours
These 4-7 minute tutorials created by the National Library of Medicine include links to Getting Started with My NCBI, Saving Searches, Filters, Collections, E-mail Alerts for Articles from Your Favorite Journals, etc.

RSS Feeds and Podcasts from the National Library of Medicine
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for sharing and distributing Web content. Using an RSS reader, you will be notified when new content is published on the feeds that interest you, without cluttering your inbox with e-mail messages.

Photoshop; Scanning with Adobe Photoshop