Discover the resources and services your libraries offer including course reserves, borrowing books, navigating the libraries’ new website, cool resources NOT available through Google, and document delivery.

Primarily intended for undergraduate students.

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RefWorks is a tool for tracking the literature used in your research and assignments. This session, intended for beginning users, is a practical tutorial on use of the product. We'll show you how to create and manage an account, import citations from research databases, and use the product to add references to your paper in the citation style of your choice.

For undergraduates, grad students, faculty, and staff.

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Did you know that UNB Libraries provides access to more than 200,000 eBooks? This session will look at strategies for finding eBooks in Quest and on the library Website. Find out which eBook collections UNB Libraries provides access to and see how the different eBook platforms work.

Primarily intended for undergraduate students.

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Finding journal articles can be a confusing process. In this session, we’ll help you find your way through the maze of research databases and journals available at UNB Libraries. From choosing which library database is right for your research paper, to understanding why “peer-reviewed” articles are so important, to getting articles delivered right to your desktop (or laptop), this session will help you find your path to research success.

Primarily intended for undergraduate students.

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Learn to Google for grain, not chaff. Through understanding how Google thinks, uses fuzzy logic, tools and shortcuts, allows field searching and limits, you can eliminate the useless hits from your Google search. We will also look at Google databases, Google Scholar (integrating the UNB Libraries Resolver, so that you really get the full text!) and Google Books, along with ways of keeping track of what you find in your Internet searching.

Primarily intended for undergraduate students.

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When should you cite something? Just what are citation styles? This workshop will provide general research writing and citation tips, with focus on how APA handles the citation of e-sources, plus some hands-on automatic formatting using QuickBib and Refworks! Find out more at Pizza and Plagiarism. The pizza is free, and the workshop just might prove invaluable.

Primarily intended for undergraduate students.

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Just a few short years after its introduction, Google Scholar has become the search tool of preference for many, bringing Google's familiar interface to the world of academic research. In this session, we'll examine Google Scholar's impact on the academic community, and take a closer look at how Google is working with scholarly publishers and academic libraries to bring easy searching and trusted content together. Discover Google Scholar's strengths and limitations as we put it head-to-head with other key search products to find out how it really stacks up, and share your own experiences with using Google Scholar in your work.

This session is intended for graduate students and faculty.

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You finally found the right search string, one that returns hits that are relevant to your research. You have included all of the terms you need, set limits appropriately, and got your ANDs and ORs in all the right places. Did you know that many databases will let you save this search so that you don't have to reconstruct it later on? Also, you can set up an alert service that will automatically send you new citations as they are added to the database. Make those databases your own with MyDatabases.

This session will focus on databases in the Arts.

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You finally found the right search string, one that returns hits that are relevant to your research. You have included all of the terms you need, set limits appropriately, and got your ANDs and ORs in all the right places. Did you know that many databases will let you save this search so that you don't have to reconstruct it later on? Also, you can set up an alert service that will automatically send you new citations as they are added to the database. Make those databases your own with MyDatabases.

This session will focus on databases in the Sciences and Engineering.

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With UNB Libraries rich electronic journal collection at your fingertips, how do you keep track and make the most of all those downloaded PDF files? Enter Papers, a full-featured PDF manager for the Mac that lets you search, download, and organize your own library of articles. In this session, you'll learn how to use Papers to search major databases (like Scopus, Web of Science, IEEE... even Google Scholar) both on and off-campus, use Papers to view and annotate PDFs, and start tagging and organizing your PDFs into collections for easy retrieval. We'll even take a look at how you can take your library with you, using Papers for iPhone and iPod Touch.

This session is intended for Mac users who are currently using or interested in finding out more about Papers. For more information, visit the Papers website (http://mekentosj.com/papers/).

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Ever wonder what resources are available at the law library? This session serves as an introduction to UNB and STU students about the various law-related resources at their disposal. Find out more about what is on the law library website, what resources you have access to, and the services we provide.

This session is open to all UNB and STU students.

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The language of film speaks to us on many levels. Evocative, engaging, visceral, film brings to life worlds of experience that other media can merely suggest. As such, documentary and feature films, in whole or in part, can play vital roles in teaching and research across all disciplines.

This session serves as an introduction to UNB Libraries' film collection and the issues attending the use of film for research and instruction.

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