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by description The Know Your Library classes, covering essentials about research using the library and the web, are open to all members of the UC Berkeley campus community and the public. Advance registration is not required. For more information, call 643-9959. Classes are held in 350C Moffitt Library. To enter the library you will need to show your UC Berkeley ID or sign in at the security desk with a valid photo ID.
Getting Started With . . . Research begins with navigating your library, online as well as on campus. Get introduced to the kinds of resources and services available via the Library Web. Learn its structure, strategies for use, and the next steps in developing your search skills.
Finding Books and Articles: Starting Your Research at the UC Berkeley Library Discover tools and search strategies for library research. Learn how to use the library's catalogs to find books and discover the world of journal article databases. Find out about other useful online resources such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, literary texts, and more.
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot: Your Next Library Catalog? See and try the system that may become the next Melvyl Catalog. Learn about features like UC-wide and worldwide library holdings, journal articles, relevance ranking, preformatted citations, saving and sharing lists of items, and more. Find out how to give feedback and influence the system's design.
Know More About . . . Research-quality Web Searching: Google and Beyond Learn simple, time-saving techniques for making your Google searches more precise and focusing on academic information. Use alternative search tools with new technologies to improve your results. Evaluate what you find for research quality. This class will include time for practice and discussion; bring your toughest web search problems!
Google Scholar: What Is It Good For? Google Scholar is a search engine for online scholarly material, powered by the same technology as the Google web search you know and love. Learn how the Library collaborates with Google Scholar to bring you scholarly articles and other materials for your research on any topic. We'll discuss what it is and how it works, and how you can use it to read, save, email and print online scholarly articles. Be prepared to do a lot of hands-on searching!
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Managing Bibliographies: Intro to Zotero, RefWorks or EndNote RefWorks is a basic program that's freely available online to UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff. It serves the needs of most undergraduates and those not needing to manage an extensive bibliography.
EndNote is a powerful, full-featured program that works with many databases to organize references, format a bibliography, and insert endnotes. EndNote may be purchased from the Scholar's Workstation and most software vendors. Recommended to those managing extensive bibliographies.
Zotero is a new, free bibliographic management tool that works inside Firefox. Because it works in your browser, it captures information as you search. Among its most powerful features is the ability to save copies of webpages, files, documents, and images and virtually annotate them. Great for those starting their research on a large project, particularly if using many web-based materials.
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