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Beyond the Basics: Finding Conference Papers
Melissa Maria Johnson and Charlene Cain
You found the perfect article. It's exactly what you were looking for and it was written by an expert in the field, but you cannot find the full text. Are you sure it's an article? You may be looking for a conference paper or conference presentation instead - join us to learn how locate these scholarly resources.
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Beyond the Basics: Finding Tests and Measurements
Charlene C. Cain
Learn how to use databases to locate instruments and reviews of tests to inform your choices of the most relevant measurement tools for your research.
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Beyond the Basics: Funding Your Research
Sarah Cisse
In this session you will learn how to locate resources to fund your research through the Alvin Sherman Library databases. This session will take place on Zoom. Registration is required.
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Beyond the Basics: The Power of Keywords in Academic Research
Mihaela Micu
Watch this webinar to learn about keyword selection strategies, discover resources for keyword generation, hear about research dos and don’ts. We will talk about differences between search engines and academic databases and how choice of keywords impacts quality of results in both.
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Celebrate Women Writers: Poets & Playwrights
Lisa Ellis
Celebrate Women’s History Month by learning how to use library databases to discover and read women authors, poets, and playwrights. We will explore the following databases:
- Black Women Writers
- Latin American Women Writers
- North American Women's Drama
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Cite Black Women
Sara Cooper
Interested in critically engaging with the sources we read while encouraging and supporting Black women academics?
This workshop teaches more about #CiteBlackWomen, a social justice movement and practice to effectively engage with, recognize, and highlight the intellectual work and often overlook contributions of Black women.
This workshop was held virtually on Wednesday, February 17, 2021.
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ClinicalKey
Elsevier
Link to Website containing training videos, complete help guides, and webinars for learning ClinicalKey
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Conflict Resolution and the Holocaust Resources Workshop
Sarah Cisse
In this virtual session explore conflict resolution databases to find holocaust resources available through the Sherman Library.
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Creating a Concept Map
Jamie Segno
A concept map is a visual tool that helps show the relationship between ideas. It can help you brainstorm new ideas and organize information.
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Creating Annotated Bibliographies Using Academic Writer
Charlene Cain
Learn how to create annotated bibliographies in APA format using the APA’s own template on the Academic Writer platform. Join us to learn more about what annotated bibliographies are and how they can be formatted for greatest success in conforming to APA standards.
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Dance Resources Workshop
Lisa Ellis
Looking for dance videos? In this workshop you’ll get an overview of all those resources in the Alvin Sherman Library and online, along with other resources related to types of dance, the history of dance, and more!
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Digging Deeper with Your Research: Citation Chaining
Sara Cooper
Are you having trouble finding articles and reports related to your topic? Do you feel like you are missing aspects of "the literature" in your field? Join us to learn how to use citation chaining to discover relevant resources and dig deeper into your topic.
This workshop was presented online on February 15, 2023.
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Discovering Qualitative Research Methodology
Stacy R. Allsop
Workshop recording: Learn how to locate published qualitative research studies in databases, and which library resources include information on how to accomplish those methods.
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EndNote 20 & ProQuest Databases
Stacy R. Allsop
Workshop recording: Learn about EndNote 20 and organizing scholarly articles. This workshop focused on searching ProQuest databases, saving information in the ProQuest "My Research" account, exporting content into the EndNote software, and "syncing" to the EndNote online account to back up your saved content.
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EndNote 21 - Overview (Basic Level)
C. Schultz
Learn how to get started with downloading and using EndNote 21 reference management software. This workshop covers the basic elements of the user interface and different features offered. Additionally, examples will be demonstrated on how to create references and utilize the Microsoft Word EndNote plugin.
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EndNote Skills: Introduction & Help
Stacy R. Allsop
EndNote is a type of citation and reference management software for both Mac and Windows computers. Learn how to obtain EndNote software and EndNote Online, and what support you have through Nova Southeastern University and Clarivate Analytics. EndNote is available free to current NSU students, faculty, and staff.
EndNote X9 is a powerful tool that lives on your computer and syncs to an optional online account. You develop an organized "library" of resources including citations, abstracts, keywords, notes, PDFs, word processing files, personal communications, etc. Being able to save as you go, share files, stop and start, and deal with interruptions is critical to the success of assignments and projects.
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Fighting Fake News (in an election year)
Sara Cooper
Library 101: Fighting Fake News (in an election year) Workshop presented digitally by Sara Cooper on 06/11/2020 Getting reliable news is always important, and is especially so in an election year. In this 30 minute workshop, we: identify common traits of Fake News discuss the real-world impact of Fake News practice using the SIFT method for evaluating news -- Audio issues - captions have been corrected for content
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Finding Books
Sarah Cisse
In this short video learn how to find books and e-books using the Sherman Library website.
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Finding Business Information with Mergent Online
Sara Cooper
Learn how to access company, industry, and country data with Mergent Online.
This workshop was originally held 06/02/2021, and is part of the Library 101 workshop series.
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Finding Empirical Research in Education
Melissa Maria Johnson
Short video on finding empirical research in ERIC (ProQuest).
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Finding Full Text
Sarena Hicks
Learn how to access the full text of an article for free using tools like Find It and Full Text Finder!
In this session we will learn how to:
- access article using Full Text Finder
- access the full text of an article within a database
- place a request for an article using Interlibrary Loan
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Finding Historical Documents on Google
Lisa Ellis
Learn how to use Google to find open access historical documents and primary sources!
In this 30 minute workshop, we will learn:
- How to develop keywords for historical research
- How to find historical newspapers and magazines in Google Books
- How to utilize other websites to access primary documents
This video is part of the Library 101 Series.
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Finding Peer Reviewed Articles
Melissa Maria Johnson
How to find peer reviewed articles in the library databases.
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Finding the full text using the FindIt button or Check for full text link
Melissa M. Johnson
In this video you will learn how to navigate to the full text of an article using the FindIt button or Check for full text link.
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