Winter 2012 Workshops

Stanford Science & Engineering Libraries fall workshops for Winter 2012. Faculty, students, and staff are welcome to attend.

Workshops in Branner

GIS Workshops: Introduction to ArcGIS
Description:  This workshop is designed to give a basic understanding of ArcGIS to new users. This a 3-hour workshop with the majority of its exercises being hands-on. Topics covered include GIS data formats, basic database management, projections, ArcCatalog, ArcMap, Tools for spatial analysis and basic cartography principles. This workshop is mandatory if students want to use Branner's ArcGIS free one-on-one consulting services.
Sponsor: Branner Library http://library.stanford.edu/depts/branner/services/workshops.html
Contact: Patricia Carbajales (carbajales@stanford.edu)
Location: Mitchell A65, Basement of Mitchell Earth Sciences Building
Dates and Times:  Tuesday, January 17, 4-7 pm and Wednesday, January 18, 2:30-5:30 pm
More Information: bit.ly/geotraining

What's new with GeoRef
Description: Learn about using GeoRef to search international geoscience literature, covering engineering and environmental geology, hydrology, and paleontology. Also learn to automatically send citations to your email address. Bring examples and questions you'd like to have addressed.
Sponsor: Branner Library  http://library.stanford.edu/depts/branner/services/workshops.html
Contact: Hannah Winkler (winklerh@stanford.edu)
Location: Branner Library Teaching Corner, Second floor of the Mitchell Earth Sciences Building
Time: Tuesday, January 24, noon-1 pm

Mendeley Basics: Your Citation Manager and Academic Social Network
Description: Organize your research with Mendeley! The open source Mendeley software allows you to create a database of "full text" papers with citation information that is easy to retrieve and use in new documents. Topics will include an introduction to Mendeley, and how to organize, tag, annotate, and share your PDFs.
Sponsor: Branner Library  http://library.stanford.edu/depts/branner/services/workshops.html
Contact: Hannah Winkler
Location: Branner Library Teaching Corner, Second floor of the Mitchell Earth Sciences Building
Time: Thursday, February 2, noon-1 pm

Energy Information: Where to Go, What to Do (using Engineering Village and Scopus)
Description: Do you need articles on a topic related to energy? We will look at industry and market research for the energy field and evaluate several interdisciplinary energy-related databases: Scopus and Engineering Village.
Sponsor: Branner Library  http://library.stanford.edu/depts/branner/services/workshops.html
Contact: Hannah Winkler (winklerh@stanford.edu)
Location: Branner Library Teaching Corner, Second floor of the Mitchell Earth Sciences Building
Time: Monday, February 6, 1-2 pm

Using Web of Science to find Journal Citation Reports
Description:  This workshop will teach about the use of Web of Science Journal Citation Reports, a multidisciplinary research tool that allows you to discover high-impact journals. Use this resource for tracking who has cited a paper, which journals are cited most quickly, and to identify journals relevant to a particular area of research.
Sponsor: Branner Library 
Contact: Hannah Winkler (winklerh@stanford.edu)
Dates and Times:  Thursday, February 16, noon-1 pm

Advanced Google Workshop – Using GoogleDocs
Description:  How do you use Google to help organize your personal and professional work? This class will focus on creating and using GoogleDocs – such as creating spreadsheets with 50 simultaneous editors, creating online polls, and publishing slideshows online. Participants will sign up for a Google account (if they don’t already have one).
Sponsor: Branner Library http://library.stanford.edu/depts/branner/services/workshops.html
Contact: Hannah Winkler (winklerh@stanford.edu)
Location: Branner Library Teaching Corner, Second floor of the Mitchell Earth Sciences Building
Time: Thursday, March 1, noon-1 pm

Workshops elsewhere at Stanford University Libraries

Basic Research Tools

Cool Tools for Research
Description: An overview of Mendeley, Utopia Docs, SciVerse Apps, Mobile Apps, and the H-Index. Coverage includes how to leverage citations and set up alerts.
Sponsor: Terman Engineering Library. Contact: Helen Josephine
Location: Huang Engineering Center, Room 219
Time: Thu, Oct 20th or Fri, Oct 21st or Thu, Nov 3rd or Fri, Nov 4th Noon - 1:00 pm
RSVP: http://lib.stanford.edu/engineering-library/workshops-instruction

SearchWorks Tips
Description: Want to learn to make the online catalog do your work for you? Join us for this workshop to discover the special functions of SearchWorks.
Sponsor: Terman Engineering Library. Contact: Sarah Lester
Location: Huang Engineering Center, Room 218
Time: Fri, Oct 7th or Wed, Oct 12th or Mon, Oct 17th Noon – 1:00 pm
RSVP: http://lib.stanford.edu/engineering-library/workshops-instruction

Finding eBooks in Swain’s Digital Stacks
Description: Thousands of online books or ebooks are available for chemists and chemical engineers. Learn about collections we have acquired and search methods for discovering titles of interest.
Sponsor: Swain Chem. & Chem. Eng. Library – http://lib.stanford.edu/swain/ Contact: Grace Baysinger
Location: Swain Library
Time: Wed, Oct 5th 11:00 am – Noon

All You Wanted to Know About Journals but Were Afraid to Ask
Description: Learn how to locate journals held at Stanford, request items not on-campus, decipher journal abbreviations, use DOIs, locate journal impact factors, set up alerts, do full-text searching, use features in interesting articles, request copyright permissions, and author’s rights and scholarly publishing issues.
Sponsor: Swain Chem. & Chem. Eng. Library – http://lib.stanford.edu/swain/ Contact: Grace Baysinger
Location: Swain Library
Time: Wed, Oct 12th 11:00 am - Noon

Chemistry Research Tools

SciFinder - Reference Searching
Description: This session includes an overview of the content in SciFinder and search methods for searching by research topic or author. It will also include chemical substance searching using CAS Registry Numbers, chemical names, and molecular formulas. Hands-on practice by attendees.
Sponsor: Swain Chem. & Chem. Eng. Library – http://lib.stanford.edu/swain/ Contact: Grace Baysinger
Location: Swain Library
Time: Wed, Oct 19th 10:30 am – Noon

SciFinder - Substance Searching
Description: This session includes search techniques and analytical methods to find compounds of interest. Hands-on practice by attendees.
Prerequisite: SciFinder – Reference Searching
Sponsor: Swain Chem. & Chem. Eng. Library – http://lib.stanford.edu/swain/ Contact: Grace Baysinger
Location: Swain Library
Time: Thu, Oct 20th 10:30 am – Noon

SciFinder - Reaction Searching
Description: This session includes search methods and analysis tools for searching chemical reactions. Hands-on practice by attendees.
Prerequisite: SciFinder – Substance Searching
Sponsor: Swain Chem. & Chem. Eng. Library – http://lib.stanford.edu/swain/ Contact: Grace Baysinger
Location: Swain Library
Time: Fri, Oct 21st 10:30 am – Noon

Introduction to Reaxys
Description: Reaxys contains information on organic, inorganic, and organometallic compounds, their properties, and their reactions. This session will cover search techniques for finding items of interest. Hands-on practice by attendees.
Sponsor: Swain Chem. & Chem. Eng. Library – http://lib.stanford.edu/swain/ Contact: Grace Baysinger
Location: Swain Library
Time: Wed, Oct 26th 10:00 am – Noon

Citation Management Tools

Citation Management Software Overview
Description: Stanford Libraries provides free access to RefWorks and EndNote Web! Learn about the advantages of Zotero or Mendeley! Learn how using these tools help you track your research and simplifies creating your papers.
Sponsor: Terman Engineering Library. Contact: Helen Josephine
Location: Huang Engineering Center, Room 219
Time: Mon, Oct.3rd or Tue, Oct. 4th Noon -1:00 pm
RSVP: http://lib.stanford.edu/engineering-library/workshops-instruction

Using Mendeley and Zotero Citation Managers
Description: Mendeley and Zotero are open source software packages that indexes and organizes all of your research materials. Learn how to organize your collection and collaborate with other researchers.
Sponsor: Sponsor: Terman Engineering Library. Contact: Helen Josephine
Location: Location: Huang Engineering Center, Room 219
Time:Time: Mon, Oct 10th or Fri, Oct 14th or Thu, Oct 27th Noon -1:00 pm
RSVP: http://lib.stanford.edu/engineering-library/workshops-instruction

Using EndNote and EndNoteWeb Citation Managers
Description: EndNote 5X or EndNoteWeb software indexes and organizes all of your citations. Learn how to create output in a variety of bibliographic styles.
Sponsor: Terman Engineering Library. Contact: Kathleen Gust
Location: Huang Engineering Center, Room 219
Time: Tue, Oct 25th or Fri, Oct 28th Noon -1:00 pm
RSVP: http://lib.stanford.edu/engineering-library/workshops-instruction

Using RefWorks Citation Manager
Description: RefWorks software indexes and organizes all of your citations. Your RefWorks account stays “live” as long as Stanford Libraries continue to subscribe to the product, even after you graduate!
Sponsor: Terman Engineering Library. Contact: Stella Ota
Location: Huang Engineering Center, Room 219
Time: Tuesday, Oct 18th or Wed, Oct 19th Noon-1:00 pm
RSVP: http://lib.stanford.edu/engineering-library/workshops-instruction

Database Searching

Searching Multiple Databases
Description: Searching multiple databases uncovers articles, books and reports critical to your research. Compare ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus and xSearch . Setting up e-mail alerts for subject, titles, and authors will be covered.
Sponsor: Terman Engineering Library . Contact: Helen Josephine
Location: Huang Engineering Center, Room 219
Time: Tue, Oct 11th or Thu, Oct 13 Noon – 1:00 pm
RSVP: http://lib.stanford.edu/engineering-library/workshops-instruction

Using xSearch X
Description: xSearch allows you to search 170+ resources at one time. Learn about resources available through xSearch plus searching tips, exporting results to a reference manager, setting up alerts, and creating your own customized search engine.
Sponsor: Swain Chem. & Chem. Eng. Library – http://lib.stanford.edu/swain/ Contact: Grace Baysinger
Location: Swain Library
Time: Wed, Sep 28th 11:00 am – Noon

Web of Science – Advanced Searching
Description: The Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database that includes over 9,000 journals. This session will cover search techniques, cited reference searching, refining and analyzing results, viewing citation reports and the H-Index. Learn to set up alerts and options for managing results. Hands-on practice time.
Sponsor: Swain Chem. & Chem. Eng. Library – http://lib.stanford.edu/swain/ Contact: Grace Baysinger
Location: Swain Library
Time: Wed, Nov 2nd 11:00 am – Noon

Introduction to Patent Searching
Description: Get a brief overview on patents and why they are important. Learn about what databases include patents, common search methods, understanding search results, and how to locate the full-text for a patent. Hands-on practice time.
Sponsor: Swain Chem. & Chem. Eng. Library – http://lib.stanford.edu/swain/ Contact: Grace Baysinger
Location: Swain Library
Time: Wed, Nov 9th 10:30 am – Noon

Funding Resources

Grant Resources
Description: Learn about resources for finding funding and federally funded research that is underway. This session also includes databases that include grant funding information from the acknowledgement of journal articles. Hands-on practice time.
Sponsor: Swain Chem. & Chem. Eng. Library – http://lib.stanford.edu/swain/ Contact: Grace Baysinger
Location: Swain Library
Time: Wed, Nov 16th 11:00 am – Noon