Coming up next week … WISER: Finding quality information on the internet, Wednesday 11th June 2008 (week 8), 12.30 – 1.30, OUCS, Banbury Road. This session will help you to develop effective web searching techniques for use with a variety of search engines and web directories and will introduce strategies for evaluating web resources. Angela… Read More »
Coming up next week … WISER: Google Project, Wednesday 4th June 2008 (week 7), 12.30 – 1.30, OUCS, Banbury Road. The Library Services are working with Google to attempt the mass digitization of our entire holdings of out-of-copyright C19th material. This presentation will set our experiences and the outputs of the project in the context… Read More »
WISER: Reading lists, Wednesday 28th May 2008 (week 6), 12.30 – 1.30, OUCS, Banbury Road. Providing online reading lists is an easy and quick way to help your students locate material in Oxford libraries. This session outlines the process of doing this. We will also explore user-friendly Web 2.0 applications, which give you the opportunity… Read More »
Coming up next week … WISER: Ovid SP the new interface. Wednesday, 21st May 2008 (week 5), 12.30 – 1.30, OUCS, Banbury Road. Medical and bio-sciences databases have recently been moved from the Ovid Gateway and WebSpirs to the new OvidSP interface. They include Medline, PsychInfo, Embase, the British and American Nursing Indexes, Zoological Record,… Read More »
Coming up next week … WISER: Bioinformatics: Sources for research in biology, Wednesday 14th May 2008 (week 4), 12.30 – 1.30, OUCS, Banbury Road. The aim of this session is to introduce users to some frequently used internet based bioinformatics resources. The session will cover basic strategies for searching and retrieving DNA sequence data from… Read More »
Coming up next week … WISER: Maps and mapping – online resources and digital mapping Wednesday, 7th May 2008 (week 3), 12.30 – 1.30, OUCS, Banbury Road. Many areas of research use spatial data and digital mapping is an ideal way to present it. This presentation will cover both web based resources (online map collections… Read More »
By Angela Carritt Coming up next week … WISER: General and Reference resources for Science Wednesday, 30th April 2008 (week 2), 12.30 – 1.30, OUCS, Banbury Road. This session is a demonstration of well known reference sources available in full-text via Oxlip platform. It will help you make use of subject specific e-books, monographic series,… Read More »
The WISER programme for Trinity 2008 is now available at http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/wiser. WISER (Workshops in Information Skills and Electronic Resources) is an initiative from the Oxford University Library Services designed to help you make the most of our electronic and other resources. We hope you will find our Trinity programme interesting and varied. All sessions are… Read More »
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