NIH Library Classes: January 2011 through March 2011 

Let the NIH Library help you improve your searching and reference management skills Classes are free, hands-on, open to NIH/HHS staff, and held in the Training Room on the first floor of the NIH Library. The Library is located near the South Entrance of Building 10. Registration is required for all classes. To register, click the links under "Class List by Name/Register." If you are unable to attend a class, consider an individual tutorial. Sign up through the Request a Tutorial Web page. We look forward to seeing you! CLASS LIST BY NAME/REGISTER | CLASS LIST BY DATE | CLASS DESCRIPTIONS CLASS LIST BY NAME/REGISTER EndNote: Managing Your Search Results Thursday January 20, 2011 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Wednesday February 9, 2011 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Thursday February 24, 2011 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Wednesday March 9, 2011 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Thursday March 24, 2011 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Discover Scopus and Web of Science: Complementary Giants Wednesday January 26, 2011 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Tuesday March 15, 2011 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Genome Browsers Tuesday January 11, 2011 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Gene Resources: From Transcription Factor Binding Sites to Function Wednesday March 16, 2011 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM PubMed: Understanding the Basics Thursday January 20, 2011 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Wednesday February 9, 2011 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Wednesday March 9, 2011 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Sequence Analysis: Making Sense of DNA and Protein Sequences Tuesday February 15, 2011 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Web Search: Thinking Beyond Google Thursday January 27, 2011 10:00 - 12:00 AM Tuesday March 15, 2011 1:30 - 3:30 PM CLASS LIST BY DATE Tuesday January 11, 2011 Genome Browsers: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Thursday January 20, 2011 PubMed: Understanding the Basics: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EndNote: Managing Your Search Results: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Wednesday January 26, 2011 Discover Scopus and Web of Science: Complementary Giants: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Thursday January 27, 2011 Web Search: Thinking Beyond Google: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Wednesday February 9, 2011 PubMed: Understanding the Basics: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EndNote: Managing Your Search Results: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Tuesday February 15, 2011 Sequence Analysis: Making Sense of DNA and Protein Sequences: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Thursday February 24, 2011 EndNote: Managing Your Search Results: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Wednesday March 9, 2011 PubMed: Understanding the Basics: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EndNote: Managing Your Search Results: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Tuesday March 15, 2011 Discover Scopus and Web of Science: Complementary Giants: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Web Search: Thinking Beyond Google 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Wednesday March 16, 2011 Gene Resources: From Transcription Factor Binding Sites to Function: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Thursday March 24, 2011 EndNote: Managing Your Search Results: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM CLASS DESCRIPTIONS Discover Scopus and Web of Science: Complementary Giants This class will focus on capabilities and features of each product, rather than on the comparison of search results. Much of the utility of these products is in the eye of the beholder and will satisfy different information requirements to different degrees. Learn how to use both databases to search for articles and how to use both to track citations and analyze research. EndNote: Managing Your Search Results Learn how to use EndNote© to download references from databases, to attach PDFs of journal articles to an EndNote record, to search, sort and group within the library, and to use EndNote with Word to insert citations and create a bibliography. Genome Browsers In this course, we will use the genome browsers from NCBI, UCSC and Ensembl. Used to view the assembly of the complete human genome, these browsers are valuable tools to identify and localize genes, and obtain information about them. In this course, we will see how to view different human genome maps/tracks and make best use of them. For example, the EST map can be used to identify undocumented exons or generate the alternative splice variants of genes. Gene Resources: From Transcription Factor Binding Sites to Function This course describes how to obtain information about a human gene including its genome, transcript, protein, and transcription factors regulating its expression. The class also covers information about single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the gene and which SNPs are known to be associated with disease. PubMed: Understanding the Basics PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database that covers the fields of medicine, nursing, and the biomedical sciences. Full text access to many articles cited in PubMed is available through the NIH Library. In this class you will learn how to effectively search, organize and download articles from PubMed. Sequence Analysis: Making Sense of DNA and Protein Sequences In this class, students will find a gene within a eukaryotic DNA sequence. They will then predict the function of the implied protein product by seeking sequence similarities to proteins of documented function using BLAST and other tools. Finally, students will find a 3D modeling template for this protein sequence using a Conserved Domain Database Search. During the first hour, the instructor will walk you through an analysis of an uncharacterized genomic sequence from a GenBank record. During the second hour of the class, students will perform the same analysis on another genomic sequence. Web Search: Thinking Beyond Google Go beyond the standard web search tools and learn to search more efficiently; access the invisible web; evaluate web sites; use image and non-text search engines; search for scholarly information, news, people, and blogs; and customize your search results. Questions? Email nihlibrary@nih.gov or call Reference & Information Services at 301-496-1080. The page was last updated on June 23, 2011