Searching the Ecological/Environmental Sciences Literature & GIS Data
When
Dec 3, 2009 11:00 am (Thursday)
What
Instruction Lab, 165 Shields Library
Dependent on the subject interests of attendees, bibliographic databases and library resources from the appropriate ecological/environmental s...
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Instruction Lab, 165 Shields Library
Dependent on the subject interests of attendees, bibliographic databases and library resources from the appropriate ecological/environmental sciences related Subject Guides will be presented. Potential Subject Guides to be covered are: Ecology and Conservation Biology; Environmental Sciences; Maps and GIS; Marine Biology; and Toxicology. Database searching strategies covered include: topic/keyword, title and author searching; using the wildcard and limits; and using the thesaurus, index, and search history features. GIS data sources will be explored including the California Spatial Information Library. Current awareness or update/alert services and how to use UC-eLinks will also be discussed. Learn about the NEWLY licensed Journal Citation Reports which indicates the top journals in each discipline. Requires registration: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/classes.
Dependent on the subject interests of attendees, bibliographic databases and library resources from the appropriate ecological/environmental sciences related Subject Guides will be presented. Potential Subject Guides to be covered are: Ecology and Conservation Biology; Environmental Sciences; Maps and GIS; Marine Biology; and Toxicology. Database searching strategies covered include: topic/keyword, title and author searching; using the wildcard and limits; and using the thesaurus, index, and search history features. GIS data sources will be explored including the California Spatial Information Library. Current awareness or update/alert services and how to use UC-eLinks will also be discussed. Learn about the NEWLY licensed Journal Citation Reports which indicates the top journals in each discipline. Requires registration: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/classes.
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