Workshop Descriptions
Improve Your Research Process
Join us for a library workshop and leave with a better understanding of how our services, resources and search tools can improve your research process. Workshops are free and offered throughout the year at Blaisdell Medical Library, at Shields Library, and online via Zoom.
All sessions are one hour.
Check our Events and Workshop calendar for current offerings. Online workshops are available by request.
Health and Medicine
These workshops have a maximum capacity of six attendees per session and are offered four times per year.
Painless PubMed
Designed to quickly introduce or update you about searching in the PubMed database, this workshop includes building an effective search strategy, efficiently locating full-text articles, focusing your results using PubMed filters and Clinical Queries tool, and managing results using your MyNCBI account. Need information for a homework assignment, grant application, or clinical question? This beginning level class will get you started.
Finding Quality Health Information: An Intro to the Triple Pearl Method
Advance your search skills with the Triple Pearl Method, a highly effective and efficient way to discover relevant literature for a variety of projects, including dissertations, theses, quality improvement projects, narrative review articles, and clinical study reports. This research method combines the unique features (e.g., journal coverage, retrieval algorithms, indexing, and tools) of three important literature databases in the health sciences — Google Scholar, PubMed, and Scopus. Basic PubMed skills are required.
Research
Library 101: Catalogs, Databases and Services
A hands-on introduction to finding books, research articles and other items at the UC Davis Library. Suitable for any discipline, this workshop will include an orientation of library privileges, services and how to discover print and digital materials in our collections. Catalog searching and an introduction to research databases will be covered.
Getting Started With Research
Find books, research articles and online resources at UC Davis and beyond. Discover the UC Library Search interface and over 900 subject based databases. Learn how to start your research, effective search strategies and where to get help.
How Research Gets Made
Learn how to reverse-engineer scholarly articles in any discipline and use library search engines (catalogs, indexes, databases) as tools and research instruments.
Citations
Giving Credit Where Credit is Due (Avoid Plagiarism)
Learn principles of citing sources in MLA (Modern Language Association) and APA (American Psychological Association) styles. Expand your understanding of paraphrases, summaries and quotations, and discover tools to help you create citations.
Publishing
Open Access Publishing: How the UC Davis Library Can Support You
Get help with the publishing process, financial support, and any questions you may have about open access publishing for articles or books. Open to everyone, including faculty, researchers, graduate students, grant administrators and departmental finance officers. Offered monthly via Zoom or by departmental request.
For Staff
Using the Library: UC Davis Staff
UC Davis staff have great access to books, academic journals, research databases and other electronic items, available through the UC Davis Library! Discover how to use our print materials and online resources, and get access from your office or home. Learn how to search our catalog and databases (a sample database will be demonstrated).
Cool Library Tools For BioAg Lab Staff
Learn about key library tools and search tactics for lab staff, including resources for major life science methods/protocols, email notification of updates in specialized research topics, journal assessment, citation analysis, management and reporting tools, e-books preview, lab website resources and more.