The Swain Library offers workshops to help support chemistry and chemical engineering information needs on campus. All sessions are open to current students, faculty, and staff at Stanford. Workshops are held in the training area at the back of the Swain Library and include hands-on practice time. Please sign up for Swain’s workshops
Please also see the schedule of Science and Engineering Libraries Workshops for Fall 2012 (pdf). They include sessions on using reference manager programs such as EndNote, Mendeley, and RefWorks. Please REGISTER on the CourseWork project site called Science and Engineering Libraries Training so we may notify you of any room or date changes. Sign up at http://bit.ly/SciEngWorkshops
xSearch
Description: xSearch allows you to search 170+ resources at one time. Learn about resources available, search tips, alerts, and how create your own customized search engine.
Time: Monday, 8 October 2012, 4–5 pm
Web of Science — Advanced Searching
Description: The Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database that includes over 9,000 journals. This session will cover search techniques, how to do cited reference searching, refining and analyzing results, viewing citation reports and the H-Index. It will also include setting up alerts and options for managing search results.
Time: Monday, 15 October 2012, 4–5 pm
Introduction to Reaxys Xcelerate
Description: Reaxys Xcelerate contains information on organic, inorganic, and organometallic substances, their properties, and their reactions.
Time: Monday, 22 October 2012, 3:30–5 pm
SciFinder — Reference Searching
Description: This session includes an overview of the content in SciFinder and search methods for searching by research topic or author. It will also include chemical substance searching using CAS Registry Numbers, chemical names, and molecular formulas.
Time: Monday, 29 October 2012, 3:30–5 pm
SciFinder — Substance and Reaction Searching
Description: This session includes search techniques and methods to find substances and reactions of interest.
Prerequisite: SciFinder — Reference Searching
Time: Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 3:30–5 pm
Introduction to Reaxys Xcelerate
Description: Reaxys Xcelerate contains information on organic, inorganic, and organometallic substances, their properties, and their reactions.
Time: Monday, 22 October 2012, 3:30–5 pm