Medical Research: CINAHL Workshop
Medical research can require using complex databases and advantaged searching strategies. In this workshop you’ll learn about some of Loyola’s premier medical resources, including Medline and CINAHL, and how to get the results you want. We will discuss helpful tools and features of medical databases, the best searching techniques, and easy ways to stay on […]
Attend RefWorks Workshops @ Information Commons
Join us for a workshop on RefWorks, a program that allows you to collect, store, and organize citations from books, articles, web sites and other sources. Once citations have been collected, it can automatically convert citations into properly formatted bibliographies. A multitude of citation styles are offered including MLA, APA and Chicago Style. Students, faculty, […]
You Asked, We Listened #3 : Access AV Resources
Access AV Resources One suggestion: ours is one of the few libraries around that requires a 48 hour turnaround time for AV resources. For faculty who get sick and need an emergency video, it would be very useful to be able to gain immediate access to AV resources. The process for accessing audio-visual materials needs […]
ArtStor: The World’s Art at Your Fingertips
This workshop is intended to introduce new users to the ARTstor image database — a growing and evolving collection of images related to art, architecture and the humanities. Topics will include: An introduction to the interface; Browsing and searching in ARTstor; Uploading image files from outside sources; Creating and managing folders and image groups; A […]
Getting the best out of JSTOR
It’s easy to find a lot of articles when searching in JSTOR, but it can be difficult to wade through all those results to find articles that are relevant. This session will cover advanced searching skills, such as proximity operators and relevance boosting, that can be used to improve your searches in JSTOR. Space is […]
Join the Commonalities Faculty Dialogue series on the latest e-textbooks
What textbook will you be using next semester? Have you considered not using a textbook or relying on electronic books and resources for your classes? How are iPads and Kindles impacting higher education? Your class? What about e-textbooks? Stop by and hear Associate Provost Kevin Gillespie, S.J., and other colleagues discuss electronic textbooks. Join us […]