Swain Library News

The Lane Medical Library offers a broad array of workshops on campus. Users outside the Medical School are welcome to attend. Workshops that will be held in March include: EndNote, Advanced SQL Querying of Bionformatics Databases, Advanced Google: Services, Tools and Search Techniques, and PubMed: Basic to Advanced Techniques so You Don’t Miss Key Research.

Earlier this month, I participated in a class that Yannick taught on patent searching. This WebEx session was archived and is available for viewing. Handouts and other materials are available for many previously offered sessions.

Maintained by Yannick Pouliot, a member of the Lane Library’s Knowledge Management Center, the Bioresearch Portal is a one-stop collection of high quality software research tools and databases, primarily oriented toward Life Sciences laboratory researchers. Its purpose is to raise awareness and understanding of these resources. The Bioresearch Portal is a product of the Lane Library’s Bioresearch Informationist program.

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Chuck Bailey in the February 2008 issue of Current Cites wrote this summary about a mandate approved recently at Harvard:

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