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, graduate students, faculty, and staff.

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Did you know that UNB Libraries provide access to more than 300,000 eBooks? This session will look at strategies for finding eBooks in Quest and on the library website. Find out which eBook collections UNB Libraries provide access to and see how the different eBook platforms work.

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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This session will introduce the new web interface to SciFinder, while covering the basics of searching for chemistry information. SciFinder is the search software that accesses Chemical Abstracts, the CAS Registry, and CAS reacts databases. Sign up now for this hands-on session and you’ll also receive an introduction to the art of structured searching.

For undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff.

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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

For information about using SciFinder on the Web, please contact Francesca Holyoke (Science and Forestry Library): holyoke@unb.ca or 453-4965.

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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This session is intended to serve the needs of students who have returned to university after a hiatus, or who have transferred to UNB from another school, and would like help finding and using library resources. While this will be an open session, driven by your questions, we will address:

• how to navigate the Library's web site to get to resources.
• the types of materials that are available at the Library, and when to use them at stages in the research process.
• using electronic journals and books.
• evaluating records in indexing and abstracting databases to find the best material.
• keeping track of material found using RefWorks to manage research material.
• how to work with a subject librarian to better understand the resources and research process in one's area of study.

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Primarily intended for adult and transfer students.

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Are you taking an undergraduate Psychology course and need to learn which online Psychology resources are available to you? Are you confused by how to narrow your search and quickly find the books, journals, and dissertations you need? If so, then this session is for you! This introductory session will focus on the library’s Psychology Subject Guide, key Psychology reference sources, and how to use PsycINFO more effectively.

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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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.

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Find out how to read today’s newspapers from around the world - Albania to Zimbabwe, the Globe and Mail from the day your great-grandmother was born, or the Times of London from 1785 (the year UNB was founded). You can also search through major regional and national papers for stories from yesterday or several years ago. This session will focus on using UNB Libraries’ online resources to find local, national, and international newspaper stories from all time periods.

For undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff.

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Scopus is one of our best general purpose resources for searching for publications relating to Science, Technology, and Medicine, and there is increasing coverage of Social Sciences too! Superior facilities for searching and refining results make it easy to zero in on the journal articles or conference papers you need. What's more, there's a scholarly web search and a patent search built right into Scopus.

This session will introduce the basics of using Scopus, but will cover much more than just simple keyword searching facilities. We'll explore some of the advanced search facilities, such as search limiters and field codes, and we'll discuss tips and techniques for using citations to discover additional relevant material.

Primarily intended for undergraduate 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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