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Ovid SP Essential Training

Ovid SP is the new search interface from Ovid which is scheduled to replace the current Ovid search interface soon. These tutorials teach the basic skills of conducting effective searches in Ovid SP using MEDLINE as an example.

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EndNote Video Tutorials

Nine video tutorials on the basics of using EndNote. You will learn how to import citations from PubMed, how to insert citations into Word, how to format your bibliography and paper, how to export references, and much more!

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Library 101 Tutorial

This tutorial series teaches basic library research skills and gives an introduction to the services available at the Cushing / Whitney Medical Library. You will learn how to locate journal articles (online or print), how to locate books (online or print), how to order materials from other libraries, and more! The tutorial series has 10 modules and each module includes a video demo.

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Video Tutorial Podcast

Think of our podcast as a regular video show on how to use the resources, services and research tools available at the Medical Library. The show consists of many "episodes". You can watch these videos on your computer, or your iPods with video capabilities, completely free of charge.

To watch these videos, you will need to "subscribe" to the podcast feed using a "podcatcher" application such as iTunes. After you subscribe, each time you launch iTunes, it will automatically check if new episodes are available, and if yes, it will download the most recent episode to your computer for you to watch. Then you can sync your video iPods with iTunes to get the videos onto your iPod for watching on the go.

For help in subscribing to podcasts with iTunes, you can use this tutorial from Apple or if you're iTunes savvy, you can subscribe now!

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RefWorks Video Tutorials

Nine video tutorials on the basics of using RefWorks. You will learn how to import citations from PubMed, how to insert citations into Word, how to format your bibliography and paper, how to export references, etc.

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Quosa 5-Minute Video Series

QUOSA is a new research tool brought to you by the Medical Library. It allows you to analyze, monitor, and organize the biomedical literature, personal PDF documents, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations. In these ten short video tutorials, you will learn the basics of using Quosa to search, retrieve, review full text articles, using Quosa together with EndNote, as well as importing existing article or document collection into Quosa.

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Jan's Search Tips

A Web log by Jan Glover, Education Services and Reference Librarian, with search tips for databases such as MEDLINE (via Ovid or PubMed), PsycINFO, Web of Science, and other health and biomedical resources.

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Citation Analysis Tutorials

These tutorials teach how to do citation analysis with tools such as the Web of Science and Scopus. You will learn how to find out how many times a particular article has been cited, how to view the trend of citations over the years, how to find out the impact factor of a journal, and a lot more!

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