AISR EDUCATION SERVICES
AISR WORKSHOPS

Below are all the workshops currently being offered by AISR. View a complete list of AISR workshops to schedule a session by appointment.

CANCELLATION/ABSENCE POLICY: In the event that you are unable to attend a session for which you have registered, we require 48 hours notice in advance of the scheduled session to allow us to contact individuals on the waiting list. If we do not receive notification of your absence, a class fee of $50 will be charged to your departmental charge code. To cancel your registration, email gail.leone@jefferson.edu or call 215-503-2830.

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INFORMATION SEARCHING SKILLS SERIES:

Introduction to OVIDSP
Instructor: Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 9/10/2008
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

This workshop is designed for all Jeffersonians with little or no experience searching the MEDLINE database using OVIDSP. This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the MEDLINE database structure and content.

The workshop will cover the following topics:

• How to access the database via JEFFLINE
  
• What is MeSH?
  
• What is a Scope Note?
  
• How does the Explode feature work in OVID?
  
• Explode versus Focus
  
• How to limit searches
  
• How to save, print and email citations
  
• Find Similar feature
  
• Find Citing Articles feature
  
• Find New Citation feature

Bibliographic Management: Introduction to RefWorks
Instructor: Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 10/15/2008
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

Stop typing your bibliographies. More than 3,000 Jeffersonians use RefWorks, a web-based database and bibliography creation program, available via JEFFLINE. Learn to create, organize, and access personal databases of bibliographic citations. Save time and let RefWorks format your bibliography for you. We'll show you how to use Refworks to import, export, search, and format citations, and use RefShare to collaborate and share databases with your colleagues.

Take Advantage of the Jefferson Digital Commons for Shameless Self-Promotion
Instructors: Ann Koopman, MS; Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 10/22/2008
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

It's a win-win academic opportunity--promote your Jefferson research and publishing efforts to the world by participating in the Jefferson Digital Commons (JDC). The JDC increases your visibility. With over 2,000 different archived full-text resources including academic articles, posters, preprints, videos, images, teaching materials and newsletters you get permanent public space for all types of files AND your work is indexed by search engines like Google. Receive monthly alerts notifying you how many times your works have been downloaded. Create a faculty researcher page. Use the JDC as a university press and publish your department newsletters or create a new journal. Learn how the JDC complements Xythos and the Faculty Interests Database. The JDC is free to all Jeffersonians.

Blogs and RSS--The Latest Tools for Keeping Up-To-Date
Instructors: Gary Kaplan, MSLIS; Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 10/29/2008
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

Are you overwhelmed with keeping up-to-date reading web sites of interest? Do you wish you could access all your favorite web sites and table of contents alerts of your favorite journals in one easy to access web-based interface? If you answered yes, you should attend this workshop. Jeffersonians will learn about blogs and create their own Bloglines account. Work smarter and be more productive keeping up-to-date with Web content.

Professional PubMed Searching
Instructor: Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 11/5/2008
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

Learn to search MEDLINE through PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's Entrez search engine. This class focuses on using Linkout (links to over 5,300 full-text SML electronic journals), My NCBI (store and retrieve search strategies and establish search filters), Clipboard, Limit, and History features of PubMed. In addition, learn to set-up collection lists to permanently save lists of citations.

This workshop will cover:

• Limits
• Journal browser
• MeSH browser
• Single citation matcher
• Truncation
• Search field tags
• Journals Databases
• PreMEDLINE
• Natural language searching
• Clinical Queries using research methodology filters
• Creating search filters

Using Scopus & Internet Search Engines Effectively
Instructor: Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 11/19/2008
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

Tired of getting millions of results when you search Google? Novice users enter their search topic into the default search engine of choice (usually Google). But, did you know that you can significantly increase the chances you'll find what you're looking for by knowing some of tricks of the searching trade? Your librarians will show you how to change your simple searches to successful power searches. This workshop will also discuss Google Scholar and citation analysis.

Introduction to OVIDSP
Instructor: Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 1/14/2009
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

This workshop is designed for all Jeffersonians with little or no experience searching the MEDLINE database using OVIDSP. This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the MEDLINE database structure and content.

The workshop will cover the following topics:

• How to access the database via JEFFLINE
  
• What is MeSH?
  
• What is a Scope Note?
  
• How does the Explode feature work in OVID?
  
• Explode versus Focus
  
• How to limit searches
  
• How to save, print and email citations
  
• Find Similar feature
  
• Find Citing Articles feature
  
• Find New Citation feature

Bibliographic Management: Introduction to RefWorks
Instructor: Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 1/28/2009
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

Stop typing your bibliographies. More than 3,000 Jeffersonians use RefWorks, a web-based database and bibliography creation program, available via JEFFLINE. Learn to create, organize, and access personal databases of bibliographic citations. Save time and let RefWorks format your bibliography for you. We'll show you how to use Refworks to import, export, search, and format citations, and use RefShare to collaborate and share databases with your colleagues.

Take Advantage of the Jefferson Digital Commons for Shameless Self-Promotion
Instructors: Ann Koopman, MS; Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 2/11/2009
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

It's a win-win academic opportunity--promote your Jefferson research and publishing efforts to the world by participating in the Jefferson Digital Commons (JDC). The JDC increases your visibility. With over 2,000 different archived full-text resources including academic articles, posters, preprints, videos, images, teaching materials and newsletters you get permanent public space for all types of files AND your work is indexed by search engines like Google. Receive monthly alerts notifying you how many times your works have been downloaded. Create a faculty researcher page. Use the JDC as a university press and publish your department newsletters or create a new journal. Learn how the JDC complements Xythos and the Faculty Interests Database. The JDC is free to all Jeffersonians.

Blogs and RSS--The Latest Tools for Keeping Up-To-Date
Instructors: Gary Kaplan, MSLIS; Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 3/4/2009
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

Are you overwhelmed with keeping up-to-date reading web sites of interest? Do you wish you could access all your favorite web sites and table of contents alerts of your favorite journals in one easy to access web-based interface? If you answered yes, you should attend this workshop. Jeffersonians will learn about blogs and create their own Bloglines account. Work smarter and be more productive keeping up-to-date with Web content.

Professional PubMed Searching
Instructor: Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 3/18/2009
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

Learn to search MEDLINE through PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's Entrez search engine. This class focuses on using Linkout (links to over 5,300 full-text SML electronic journals), My NCBI (store and retrieve search strategies and establish search filters), Clipboard, Limit, and History features of PubMed. In addition, learn to set-up collection lists to permanently save lists of citations.

This workshop will cover:

• Limits
• Journal browser
• MeSH browser
• Single citation matcher
• Truncation
• Search field tags
• Journals Databases
• PreMEDLINE
• Natural language searching
• Clinical Queries using research methodology filters
• Creating search filters

Using Scopus & Internet Search Engines Effectively
Instructor: Dan Kipnis, MSI
Date: 4/8/2009
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

Tired of getting millions of results when you search Google? Novice users enter their search topic into the default search engine of choice (usually Google). But, did you know that you can significantly increase the chances you'll find what you're looking for by knowing some of tricks of the searching trade? Your librarians will show you how to change your simple searches to successful power searches. This workshop will also discuss Google Scholar and citation analysis.

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY SKILLS SERIES:

Turning Point
Instructor: Kathleen Day, MS
Date: 9/9/2008
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

Planning an exam review? Want to find out what students really think? Turning Point Audience Response System can help. This workshop will cover the skills you'll need to create, present, and save a polling presentation.

The workshop objectives include:

• insert an interactive slide
  
• convert an existing PowerPoint slide
  
• format text on interactive slides
  
• indicate the correct answer
  
• deliver the interactive session
  
• save session data
  
• generate a report

Photoshop Basics
Instructor: Kathleen Day, MS
Date: 9/16/2008
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

This workshop will focus on the steps involved with creating a digital image collection for teaching and publishing. Participants will be shown each step of the process from digitizing images to managing files for all possible output types. Due to the limited number of site licenses for this program, participants will do hands-on work in small groups.

Adobe Captivate
Instructor: Kathleen Day, MS
Date: 10/7/2008
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

Captivate's import features allow you to capture your PPT slides and add audio to prepare a fully-narrated lecture that can be posted to Blackboard (Pulse).

The instructor will demonstrate how to:

• prepare your PPT slides for import into Captivate
  
• import a PPT presentation
  
• add and edit narration
  
• publish your presentation for both the web (SWF) or as an MP3 file

Note: If you already own a copy of Captivate, bring your laptop for a hands-on experience.

Adobe Acrobat: Forms
Instructor: Kathleen Day, MS
Date: 1/6/2009
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

Need an evaluation tool or a registration form? Learn to convert your MS Word document into a digital form that can be emailed or posted on the web.

In this workshop you will:

• complete a form in MS Word
  
• convert the form to an Adobe acrobat file
  
• insert text fields, check boxes, radio buttons, select menus, list boxes
  
• save and distribute the form
  
• compile completed forms

Photoshop Intermediate
Instructor: Kathleen Day, MS
Date: 1/20/2009
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Location: 306 Scott LRC
(Register for this workshop)

This workshop is a continuation of Photoshop Basics offering a more in-depth exploration of this application's functions.

Topics include:

• Automate functions
• History Palette
• Layers
• Layout
• Preparing images for use in MS Office applications.

This is a hands-on workshop using the Window operating system. Participants must complete Photoshop Basics to attend this workshop.

ONLINE SERIES:

Copyright & Fair Use Guidelines

This workshop will provide basic information about copyright and guidelines for classroom use of published materials. Fair use doctrine and its application in a university setting will also be addressed.