Electronic Information Resources Seminars
for UM Faculty and Graduate Students
2001

In 2001 these seminars were offered:

Spring Semester: EndNote: Software to Manange Your Bibliographies Science Citation Index   Summer Terms: EndNote: Software to Manage Your Bibliographies ProCite 5.0: Software to Manage Your Bibliographies

Fall Semester: Japanese Databases

EndNote: Software to Manage Your Bibliographies

Using the latest version of EndNote, this seminar will help you to bring order to the chaos of managing large bibliographies associated with writing projects such as books, dissertations, proposals and journals articles. EndNote is a personal bibliographic software designed to help you collect references, type your own entries or download citations directly from online databases, the World Wide Web, or library catalogs, and generate properly formatted bibliographies in any style.

• Presenters: Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Manager, User Education Services, and Diane J. Patrick, Coordinator of Campus Computing Associates, Academic Information Technology Services
• Date and Time/Location:

  Spring: March 7, 2001, 3:30-5:00pm   Summer: June 15, 2001, 1:30-3:00pm July 27, 2001, 1:30-3:00pm

  McKeldin Library, Room 2109     McKeldin Library, Room 4135 McKeldin Library, Room 2109

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Science Citation Index

UM Libraries welcome the campus community to a demonstration and hands-on workshop of Science Citation Index on the Web. It is a multidisciplinary database, covering the journal literature of the sciences from 1945 to the present. SCI indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM. You will be able to conduct your own hands-on searches and receive help from experienced users. ISI's Journal Citation Report will be demonstrated, where journal rankings and impact factors will be discussed.

• Presenters: Bob Kackley, Librarian, Science and Technology Team; Neal Kaske, Head, Engineering and Physical Sciences Library; and Jim Miller, Librarian, Science and Technology Team

• Date and Time: May 3, 2001, 12:00-1:00pm & May 9, 2001, 11:00-noon

• Location: McKeldin Library, Room 2109, & A.V. Williams, PC Jasmine Lab

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ProCite 5.0: Software to Manage Your Bibliographies

This seminar will help you to bring order to the chaos of managing large bibliographies associated with writing projects such as books, dissertations, proposals and journals articles. ProCite 5.0 is a personal bibliographic software designed to help you collect references, type your own entries or download citations directly from online databases, the World Wide Web, or library catalogs, and generate properly formatted bibliographies in any style.

• Presenters: Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Manager, User Education Services, and Diane J. Patrick, Coordinator of Campus Computing Associates, Academic Information Technology Services

• Date and Time: June 12, 2001, 1:30-3:00pm

• Location: McKeldin Library, Room 2109

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Japanese Databases

The campus community is invited to attend a free workshop that provides hands-on training in learning how to search three Japanese language databases. Prerequisite: Workshop participants must have a basic knowledge of Japanese reading and writing skills.

1. BOOKPLUS (similar to Books-in-Print); contains Japanese language books published in Japan since 1926.

2. MAGAZINEPLUS, indexes Japanese language articles from over 8,500 journals, published in Japan.

3. SAKKA SHIPPITSUSHA JINBUTSU FAIRU, a Japanese writer's who's Who of over 90,000 Japanese authors since 1868.

• Presenters: Kenneth Tanaka, Japanese Bibliographer/Cataloger, and Sachie Kobayashi, Graduate Assistant, Japanese Cataloging

• Date and Time: October 31, 2001, 2:00-3:30pm

• Location: McKeldin Library, Room 2109

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