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Workshops at The Library

Please Note
  • All instructional workshops are open to UC San Diego students, staff, and faculty. San Diego area health professionals may also attend the workshops space permitting. PubMed workshops are open to everyone.
  • Individual / group consultations and customized workshops on these or other topics are also available. Contact us to request a consultation.
  • Laptops welcome - we have room in our classrooms for you to bring your own wireless-equipped laptop if you prefer to use your own equipment.
  • Registration: Click the register link by the workshop you wish to attend and fill out the form. If you have questions or comments, you can e-mail Karen Heskett.
  • Be sure to note the location of the workshop - they may be at either Geisel Library or WongAvery Library.
  • Instructors can request library instruction

Please register at least 24 hours in advance. Workshops may be cancelled due to insufficient registration. Registrants will be notified if a workshop is cancelled.

Search Series - Library Databases and Search Tools

PubMed: the Essentials - the New Interface

This hands-on workshop focuses on what every user needs to know about PubMed, whether doing a search for a specific author or topic using keywords. Learn to focus your results with limits, become familiar with the features of the advanced search screen, and know how to use UC E-Links to easily get to full text articles. We are happy to do a session that works for your or your office's schedule.

Request an Online Session

PubMed: Beyond the Essentials - the New Interface

Move beyond the basics to refine and expand your searching skills. Learn about MeSH terms and how to use them in a search. Use MyNCBI and its numerous tools to keep you updated and to customize PubMed for your most frequent types of searches. A helpful session for the frequent searcher. We are happy to do a session that works for your or your office's schedule.

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Information Management Series

Managing Citations: Which Tool to Use?

This 60 minute session will provide an introduction to a variety of tools for managing papers and citations including EndNote & EndNote Online, Zotero, Mendeley and will discuss how to choose the tool that's right for you. We are happy to do a session that works for your or your office's schedule.

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Zotero

Zotero is an easy to use citation manager with an itunes-like interface. Grab web pages, books from Amazon, or citations from a database (or even Roger). You can save PDFs or screenshots of webpages, organize your collection of resources, and add notes to your library. Very student friendly yet robust enough to work for researchers and faculty. A one hour session. We are happy to do a session that works for your or your office's schedule.

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EndNote Online

The online version of EndNote is available for free. Come learn how to insert citations to your online library and then use them when writing a paper. Users of the desktop version can also synch their online and desktop library, come learn how the online version extends your options.

Request a consult for yourself or a group

Mendeley

Writing a research paper and need to manage your references? Or, have PDFs you want to organize? Mendeley is another of the free resources that offers tools for making these tasks a little bit easier. This hands-on workshop covers both Mendeley desktop & online tools, including Mendelely groups and using the citations tools in Word. Come learn the secret options that Mendeley has hidden in their program.

Request a consult for yourself or a group

EndNote Desktop

Writing a research paper and need to manage your references? Using EndNote already, but want to learn about its "power" features (e.g., Connect, "Cite While You Write," etc.)? Take this 1.5 hour workshop to learn to build your own EndNote reference library and work with Word to write your paper and seamlessly create bibliographies. We are happy to do a session that works for your or your office's schedule. Check out our online guide.

Request a consult for yourself or a group

Data Series - 2023 Carpentries Bootcamp

Introduction to R, the Unix Shell, and Version Control with Git (Virtual)

A 4-Day Carpentries Bootcamp workshop that will teach the participants basic concepts, skills, and tools for R in R Studio and Version Control with Git. This workshop is designed for researchers and enables non-experts to develop computing skills for research analysis. We will cover basic concepts and tools, such as - working with vectors and data frames; reading and plotting data; creating and using functions; and more. This is a free workshop and is open to all UC San Diego students, staff, and faculty.

UCSD registered students who successfully complete the bootcamp and assigned coding exercises during the workshop may receive acknowledgement for completion of the ‘Carpentries Workshop - Software and Data Management’ Co-Curricular Record Activity.

Workshop Dates/Times: 20th - 23rd June 2023, 9 - 12pm
Workshop Location: Virtual
Workshop Registration: Click here!

Introduction to Python, the Unix Shell, and Version Control with Git (Virtual)

A 4-Day Carpentries Bootcamp workshop that will teach the participants basic concepts, skills, and tools for Python in Jupyter Notebook and Version Control with Git. This workshop is designed for researchers and enables non-experts to develop computing skills for research analysis. We will cover basic concepts and tools, such as - using libraries; working with arrays; reading and plotting data; creating and using functions; loops and conditionals; and more. This is a free workshop and is open to all UC San Diego students, staff, and faculty.

UCSD registered students who successfully complete the bootcamp and assigned coding exercises during the workshop may receive acknowledgement for completion of the ‘Carpentries Workshop - Software and Data Management’ Co-Curricular Record Activity.

Workshop Dates/Times: 26th - 29th June 2023, 1 - 4pm
Workshop Location: Virtual
Workshop Registration: Click here!