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- What We Teach
- Contact Us
About
The Ebling Library supports, facilitates, and fosters information literacy for all of our patrons and promotes self-sufficiency (life long learning) in an ever-changing information environment.
What We Can Do for You
- Group Instruction: For any class or group, library staff will develop and conduct a customized session on a wide variety of topics. Sessions can be taught either in your department or within the library.
- Individual consultation: Need help searching a database or using a citation manager? Having a hard time keeping up to date on specific topics or journals? This and much more can be covered during a one-on-one session with a librarian.
- Learn at your own schedule: Take a look at our repository of tutorials.
- Library Tours: Would you like a tour of Ebling Library? Library staff will be available between the hours of 9:00-4:30 pm. Mon-Fri. Just stop by the Service Desk or call (608) 262-2020 and make an appointment
- Workshops: Free workshops are available on a variety of subjects such as PubMed, EndNote, Evidence-based practice, and more. No registration is required, but if you have questions about any of our workshops or suggestions for other classes, please contact Ebling Workshops.
Contact Us
Please contact us, or your library liaison, for any requests.
Ebling Library Workshops Calendar
Workshop Instruction
Free workshops are available on a variety of subjects such as PubMed, EndNote, Evidence-based practice, and more. No registration is required, but if you have questions about any of our workshops or suggestions for other classes, please contact Ebling Workshops.
Descriptions & Materials
We offer instruction on a variety of library topics and resources, including databases, citation managers, and current awareness services. These workshops take place on most Wednesdays from noon-1pm in room 3268 of the HSLC [Map]. Sessions are free, open to all, with no pre-registration required, so just drop-in!
Ebling Workshops (View Calendar)
Beyond Ebling
What We Teach
The topics below cover some of the areas we can teach (or help you teach) to your groups or classes. We encourage collaborative efforts between instructors (group leaders) and library instructors and can customize a class to support your curriculum, class, or group.
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Overviews of Resources & Services
- Tours
- Ebling Library
- Health Sciences Learning Center
- Remote Access from Home & Office (NetID)
- Finding Books
- Library Catalog (& My Library Catalog Account)
- UW System Search
- WorldCat
- Finding Journals & Articles
- Find It
- Library Catalog
- PubMed Citation Matcher
- Obtaining Library Materials
- ID Cards
- Debit cards
- Photocopying
- Scanning
- Delivery Service Options
- Article & Book Delivery
- Journal Pull/Hold
- Book Retrieval/Recall
Citation Managers
- EndNote
- EndNote Web
- EndNote Mac
- Mendeley
- Papers / Papers 2
- Zotero
Special Topics
- Evidence Based Practice in Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, or Allied Health
- Asking the right questions (PICO)
- Developing search strategies
- EBP background and foreground resources
- Consumer Health Resources
- MedlinePlus
- BadgerLink
- History of Health Sciences
- Research Strategies
- Resources
Specific Resources
- BrowZine (browse scholarly journals on mobile devices and desktop)
- PubMed
- Scopus
- CINAHL
- Web of Science
- General searching
- Cited Reference Search
- Impact Factors
- Micromedex
- UptoDate
- Clinical Evidence (BMJ)
- STAT!Ref
- Access Medicine
- ClinicalKey
- Essential Evidence Plus (was InfoRetriever)
- PsycINFO
- Cochrane Database
- DARE
- ACP Journal Club
- Google
- Advanced Google
- Google Scholar
- Google Apps (UW-Madison)
Keeping up with the Literature
- BrowZine (browse scholarly journals on mobile devices and desktop)
- Alert Services
- MyNCBI
- Web of Science
- Ebsco (CINAHL, PsycINFO, ERIC)
- RSS feeds for Journals, News, etc.
- Feedly
- Outlook
Other Topics
- Copyright/Fair Use
- Funding: A Grants Overview
- MINDS@UW
- Box (UW-Madison)
- Scholarly Publishing Issues
- NIH Public Access Policy (and other federal public access policies)
- Research Data Curation/Data Plans