Past Workshops

Searching more than one library database at time streamlines the process of searching, which is especially useful for interdisciplinary topics. This session will demonstrate some of the unique functions of the system, and, since it is still under development, explain some of the limitations of the new search engine as well. You will learn when it is appropriate to use this resource, compared to searching databases individually, and how to tailor the search to include the databases most helpful to your topic.

So you've heard of scholarly information in classes, but where do you find it? Do you go to the Internet first? If so, you probably go straight to Google. This seminar covers the contents of Google Scholar, a search engine for scholarly information. You will learn the contents of Google, search functions, and how to search the Purdue University Libraries' holdings through the Google Scholar interface.

The Purdue University Academic Honesty policy states students will not plagiarize. The penalties if caught can be quite harsh, and yet there seems to be little time spent teaching students how to avoid plagiarizing. Studies show much of what gets identified as plagiarism is frequently the result of poor note taking and writing habits. Come learn about ways to recognize when plagiarism has occurred (even if unintentional) and how to avoid those bad habits and their consequences.

During this session you will be introduced to both EndNote Web and the newest desktop version of EndNote. The session will cover getting information into EndNote, creating a formatted bibliography using the EndNote data and using the Cite While you Write feature from both versions.

In order to make the most of library resources, we frequently need to learn a new or redesigned database. But is there an easy way to do this? This class will show you some characteristics of databases that most databases have in common. This class will help you to identify these tools, and use them to teach yourself a new database.

Do you need to search for articles, conference proceedings and book chapters for your research or for class projects? INSPEC and Compendex cover a wide array of engineering, computer, and physics resources... almost a one-stop shop for searching the literature. In this session, you'll learn the secrets of the power users to focus your searching and get the good stuff faster and more efficiently.

Find full-text journal articles and books online with JSTOR, Project MUSE, Google Books, etc.

Find full-text journal articles and books online with JSTOR, Project MUSE, Google Books, etc.

Discussion of resources produced by agencies responsible for federal scientific research and U.S. Government science policy.

EndNote Web is the stripped down (and free!) version of EndNote software. It helps you collect, organize and use citations to research articles and other information, minus many of the bells and whistles of the software. Join us for a hands-on introduction. You will leave with an EndNote Web account and will know if you should use the web version or the more robust software for your own research and publications.

Discussion of information resources produced by the Federal Reserve Board, the National Credit Union Administration, and others as well as congressional oversight committees responsible for regulating sectors of the U.S. economy.

Explore PsychInfo and other sources of information in Psychology.

The Purdue University Libraries have established a service called e-Pubs, at the heart of which is a digital collection of research articles contributed by Purdue graduate students and faculty. Articles in e-Pubs become part of libraries’ permanent digital collection and find their way into Google Scholar search results and onto researchers’ desktops. In this session, the moderators will highlight some of the successful uses of this service. They will demonstrate the process of contributing an article to e-Pubs and will highlight a few of the tools that can help authors understand their options when contemplating how to maximize the online presence of their articles.

Explore PsychInfo and other sources of information in Psychology.

Ins and outs of locating dissertations both free and for a fee!

Many scholarly journals are pricing their contents out of the hands of researchers who want to read your research article. More than ever before, graduate students and faculty researchers alike need to consider access policies when publishing original research. Authors have several choices when managing access to their work, and this session will illustrate the primary issues surrounding access to research and the options available to those who want to create the biggest impact.

Ins and outs of locating dissertations both free and for a fee!

Purdue Libraries' Archives and Special Collections has digitized the main sources for the history of Purdue University in writings and photographs. Learn how to access and search these fascinating records!

The Libraries provide thousands of resources – books, e-books, journals, databases – but it is not always easy knowing the best place to start, the easiest way to ask for help, or how to actually get your hands on the materials you need. Come find out about all the things you never knew we had that could make your research and teaching easier and more efficient.

Learn about this valuable source of unusual and notable global collections available to the Purdue Community on a cooperative basis.

Explore the amazing dimensions and awesome directions of the world’s greatest search engine and the projects it has spawned!

EndNote software helps you collect, organize and use citations to research articles and other information. It will format the citations into references, bibliographies and footnotes and seamlessly include it in your Microsoft Word documents. Join us for a hands-on introduction to EndNote. The G431 lab will be open from 5:00-7:00 for questions and practice before and after the class, which will be from 5:30-6:30.

Find articles, ERIC documents and testing instruments in the primary databases for research in education.

Learn how to use the Endnote citation management program to build your bibliographies and insert citations in MS Word documents.

Learn how to use the Endnote citation management program to build your bibliographies and insert citations in MS Word documents.

Strategies to build your personal research library and use it to enhance your graduate school experience.

Strategies to build your personal research library and use it to enhance your graduate school experience.

Locating and using British and French Library Catalogs.

Basic instruction for the individual new to Purdue will help even experienced researchers save time.

EndNote Web is FREE to all Purdue students and there is no software to purchase. Come learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.

Registration is required

Learn how to change the default settings in EndNote, how to create and modify reference types, and how to modify output (citation) styles

Registration is required

Assumes familiarity with searching and using the Libraries' databases. Learn how to create an EndNote library using the four different ways to enter citations into an EndNote library. Also, learn how to use EndNote's Cite While Your Write (CWYW) functions to create citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word.

Registration is required

Company Annual Reports sent to stock holders contain a wealth of historic information about the company, the industry and the social situation. Learn how to find these online, on microfiche or from our large print collection.

Keeping Up with Your Field: Creating information portals

Not sure which of Purdue’s over fifty history databases to use? Here is guidance you can use.

Property Searching and Data Manipulation with Knovel, TPMD, and Web Thermo Tables

Learn about this valuable source of unusual and notable global collections available to the Purdue Community on a cooperative basis.

EndNote Web is FREE to all Purdue students and there is no software to purchase. Come learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.

Registration is required

Find articles, ERIC documents and testing instruments in the primary databases for research in education.

EndNote Web is FREE to all Purdue students and there is no software to purchase. Come learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.

Registration is required

Learn multiple ways of searching the online version of this resource to find primary source.

Finding scholarly information on the Web: Google Scholar

Learn about the variety of statistical resources produced by U.S. federal and state governments and foreign and international government organizations.

Assumes familiarity with searching and using the Libraries' databases. Learn how to create an EndNote library using the four different ways to enter citations into an EndNote library. Also, learn how to use EndNote's Cite While Your Write (CWYW) functions to create citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word

Registration is required

EndNote X2

Learn how to find and use United States, foreign, and international government organization documents to conduct energy public policy and scientific research.

Learn how to change the default settings in EndNote, how to create and modify reference types, and how to modify output (citation) styles

Registration is required

Learn how to find and use government and nongovernment resources to conduct U.S. federal and state election campaign research.

EndNote Web is FREE to all Purdue students and there is no software to purchase. Come learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.

Registration is required

Explore the amazing dimensions and awesome directions of the world’s greatest search engine and the projects it has spawned.

In the modern information environment, scholars often have the capability to distribute their findings much more broadly than they realize, enhancing visibility of their research and increasing citations to their publications. Mark Newton, the Digital Collections Librarian at Purdue University Libraries, will introduce a new library service, Purdue e-Pubs, which has significant implications for the distribution of and long-term access to research findings.

EndNote X2

Harness the all-enveloping power of these and other databases that purport to list “everything”—and make them work for you.

e-EROS, SPRESIweb, Fieser & Fieser, and more

EndNote Web is FREE to all Purdue students and there is no software to purchase. Come learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.

Registration is required

Strategies to build your personal research library and use it to enhance your graduate school experience.

Assumes familiarity with searching and using the Libraries' databases. Learn how to create an EndNote library using the four different ways to enter citations into an EndNote library. Also, learn how to use EndNote's Cite While Your Write (CWYW) functions to create citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word

Registration is required

Search across several databases at once.

Overview of resources available through Purdue Libraries, NCBI, and other institutions.

Technical information at your fingertips: Online handbooks

Basic instruction for the individual new to Purdue will help even experienced researchers save time.

Beilstein, Part 2: Substance and Reaction Searching

Assumes familiarity with searching and using the Libraries' databases. Learn how to create an EndNote library using the four different ways to enter citations into an EndNote library. Also, learn how to use EndNote's Cite While Your Write (CWYW) functions to create citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word.

Registration is required

Assumes familiarity with searching and using the Libraries' databases. Learn how to create an EndNote library using the four different ways to enter citations into an EndNote library. Also, learn how to use EndNote's Cite While Your Write (CWYW) functions to create citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word.

Registration is required

Thinking across databases in a multidisciplinary approach.

Are we living in the Digital Dark Ages? The lack of best practices and a framework for organizing, preserving, and publishing research data is resulting in valuable datasets becoming lost or discarded. Some funding agencies are beginning to require that researchers include a data management plan in their grant proposals. At many institutions, including Purdue, librarians are exploring their role in data curation. Why should you consider publishing your research data in a repository, and what are some issues and challenges to consider? Along with the topic of data curation, we will discuss Open Access using materials from SPARC and The Right to Research.

Thinking across databases in a multidisciplinary approach.

Ins and outs of locating dissertations both free and for a fee!

Learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.

Registration is required

Web of Science is one of the core databases for science researchers. Come learn how to take advantage of all the features of Web of Science, such as citation searching, using the free EndNote web, accessing journal rankings and impact factors, and much more to improve the effectiveness of your searching.

Introduction to Patent Searching

Ins and outs of locating dissertations both free and for a fee!

Learn how to collect citations, organize citations, and format citations.

Registration is required

Beilstein, Part 1: Data and Property Searching

Find full-text journal articles and books online with JSTOR, Project MUSE, Google Books, etc.

Are you searching Pubmed as effectively and efficiently as you can? Learn how to use Pubmed to its full potential by selecting the best terms, saving searches, having searches automatically run with results emailed to you weekly, downloading citations into a file for use with EndNote and other citation managers, and much more.

Find full-text journal articles and books online with JSTOR, Project MUSE, Google Books, etc.

Understanding and applying copyright in your research and teaching.

The Library is constantly changing – have you noticed? We have re-vamped our website for better searching, added new databases and more full text e-journals for greater access, added e-books for more anytime/anywhere access, and continue to improve services such as interlibrary loan. Come find out about all the things you never knew we had that could make your research and teaching easier and more efficient.

Tips and Tricks to effective searching

Understanding and applying copyright in your research and teaching.

Enhancing Your Search

Learn how to use the EndNote citation management program to build your bibliographies and insert citations in MS Word documents.

Learn how to use the EndNote citation management program to build your bibliographies and insert citations in MS Word documents.

Introduction to the (New and Improved) Libraries Website

Searching multiple databases at once using MegaSearch

Materials Made Easy... with CES/Edupack

Learn strategies to build your personal research library and use it to enhance the graduate school experience.

Learn strategies to build your personal research library and use it to enhance the graduate school experience.

Introduction and overview of resources (print and electronic) available in support of Latino and Latin American Studies.

Introduction and overview of resources (print and electronic) available in support of Latino and Latin American Studies.

Purdue now has access to a number of massive online collections of primary texts including EEBO, ECCO, Evans and others. Learn to find what you are looking for!

Purdue now has access to a number of massive online collections of primary texts including EEBO, ECCO, Evans and others. Learn to find what you are looking for!

Learn to think across databases in a multidisciplinary approach. Covers Art & Design, Communication, and Philosophy.

Learn to think across databases in a multidisciplinary approach. Covers Art & Design, Communication, and Philosophy.

Ins and outs of locating dissertations both free and for a fee!

Ins and outs of locating dissertations both free and for a fee!

Numerous government agencies produce information resources on immigration laws, policies, and programs. This workshop will show how to find and use these resources from historical print materials to contemporary digital resources.

Numerous government agencies produce information resources on immigration laws, policies, and programs. This workshop will show how to find and use these resources from historical print materials to contemporary digital resources.

Numerous government agencies produce information resources on agricultural laws, policies, and programs. This workshop will show how to find and use these resources from historical print materials to contemporary digital resources.

Numerous government agencies produce information resources on agricultural laws, policies, and programs. This workshop will show how to find and use these resources from historical print materials to contemporary digital resources.

Get yourself oriented to new capabilities presented in a new way!

Get yourself oriented to new capabilities presented in a new way!

"Journalism is the first draft of history," it is said, but a surprising number of researchers do not know how to identify, access, or search newspapers and magazines in a systematic way. Take your first steps here and suddenly be ahead of the pack.

"Journalism is the first draft of history," it is said, but a surprising number of researchers do not know how to identify, access, or search newspapers and magazines in a systematic way. Take your first steps here and suddenly be ahead of the pack.

Explore PsychInfo and other sources of information in Psychology.