Instruction & Tours

The Bioscience Library holds training sessions in our Seminar Room, just inside the library entrance. These are hands-on sessions with no need to register in advance.

We are interested in your ideas about improving existing sessions, or creating a new session tailored specifically for your research group. Contact us to submit comments or to request a special session.

EndNote Workshop

• Date: Friday, November 6
• Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
• Location: Marian Koshland Bioscience Library Seminar Room, 2103 VLSB (near the triceratops)

EndNote is a widely-used, powerful reference management tool. This hands-on workshop will include an overview of EndNote features. You will learn to:

• Import references from an array of databases
• Organize references
• Insert citations into a manuscript
• Format bibliographies in hundreds of styles

Our seminar room is equipped with 12 iMacs. If you already have EndNote installed on your laptop, you can work on your own computer. No sign-up is needed.

RefWorks Workshop

• Date: Tuesday, November 10
• Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
• Location: Marian Koshland Bioscience Library Seminar Room, 2103 VLSB (near the triceratops)

Looking for a simple solution for managing your citations and creating bibliographies? RefWorks is a web-based citation management application that's free to UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty. During this hands-on session, we'll cover creating a RefWorks account, importing records from article databases, organizing references, creating bibliographies, and using Write-n-Cite to format citations according to the style of your choice within your paper or manuscript. Once you start using RefWorks, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.

Work on one of our iMacs, or bring your own laptop. No sign-up is needed.

Web of Science

• Date: Friday, November 13
• Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
• Location: Marian Koshland Bioscience Library Seminar Room, 2103 VLSB (near the triceratops)

Web of Science indexes over 7,000 major scientific journals in all areas of science. This makes it a good resource for researchers doing multi-disciplinary work. It is an excellent database for finding articles that cite a given reference (cited reference searching).

This introductory workshop will teach you how to

• find relevant references in the database
• create citation and cited reference alerts to help you keep current
• use efficient techniques for gathering the full text of articles
• import references into EndNote

Follow along on one of our iMacs, or bring your own laptop. No sign-up is needed.

Special Instruction
The Bioscience and Natural Resources Library also offers special tours/seminars for the College of Natural Resources and for the Biological Sciences. For more information, or for scheduling, contact Norma Kobzina, 643-6475 or Beth Weil, 642-9706.