Tutorials from the Yale Medical Library

Citation and Full Text Management on the iPad - Part I: iPad Essential Training for Biomedical and Clinical Professionals #3

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:53:00 +0000

This is the first of my three videos comparing apps available on the iPad for citation and full text management. I compare 4 products available now: Mendeley, Sente, Papers, and Bookends. Whichever app you choose, it is likely that you will need both the iPad app and the desktop version (for functions not possible on the iPad), so in these videos, I not only compare the iPad apps, but also the desktop versions.

Using ePocrates Essentials: iPad Essential Training for Biomedical and Clinical Professionals #2

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:28:00 +0000

This video gives an overview and demo of ePocrates Essentials, which includes a popular drug database as well as a disease module and a lab test module.

UCentral on the iPad: iPad Essential Training for Biomedical and Clinical Professionals #1

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:25:00 +0000

This video gives an overview and demo of UCentral, one of our premier site-licensed iPad resource.

Requesting Articles via Yale Links

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:52:00 +0000

This tutorial demonstrates how to use "Yale Links" to quickly send a request for an article when it is not available at Yale.

Using Yale Links

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:43:00 +0000

This tutorial demonstrates how to use "Yale Links" to quickly locate online full text of articles when you are doing a database search.

Finding E-Books at Yale

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:14:00 +0000

This tutorial demonstrates how to quickly find an online book using Yale Medical Library's e-books database.

Finding E-Journals at Yale

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:25:00 +0000

This tutorial demonstrates the e-journals database at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. You are encouraged to use "Yale Links" as much as possible, but the e-journals database could come in handy when you are not searching a bibliographic database (i.e. when "Yale Links" buttons are not available), or if you just have the citation on a piece of paper, or you simply want to browse a journal online.

I also proudly present my colleague Rick Bean as the voice-over in this video. Rick is an actor and he is keenly interested and talented in voice recording. He will be the voice talent for many videos in the future! Welcome aboard, Rick!

EndNote X4 Video Tutorials #8: Customizing EndNote

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:15:00 +0000

In this tutorial, I show you a number of ways to customize EndNote to make it work better for you, such as how to customize the style list, the import filter list, the connection file list, and the display fields of the references.

EndNote X4 Video Tutorials #7: Exporting References from EndNote to RefWorks

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:01:00 +0000

RefWorks is another citation management application available at the Library. Unlike EndNote, it is web-based, and free to use for all Yale affiliates. EndNote and RefWorks both have their own advantages. If you want to try both applications, there is an easy way to transfer citation data between them. Today I will show you how to export references from EndNote for use in RefWorks.

EndNote X4 Video Tutorials #6: Formatting, Re-formatting and Unformatting Your Paper

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:15:00 +0000

This is another core function of EndNote. In this tutorial, I will discuss why and how to format, re-format and unformat your paper.

EndNote X4 Video Tutorials #5: Inserting Citations into Microsoft Word

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:38:00 +0000

This is one of the core functions of EndNote - you can easily insert citations from your EndNote X4 library to your Microsoft Word document. There are multiple ways to do this, and I will discuss some of them in this tutorial.

EndNote X4 Video Tutorials #4: Creating Independent Bibliographies

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:07:00 +0000

Sometimes you just want a bibliography -- you don't want it to be part of your paper, just a list of references in a certain format. This tutorial demonstrates how to to do that.

EndNote X4 Video Tutorials #3: Adding Known Books or Book Chapters to EndNote

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:18:00 +0000

This tutorial demonstrates how to add the reference of a known book into your EndNote library using the connection file for the Yale Library Catalog Orbis from within EndNote, and how to manually edit the book record to make it a book chapter record.

EndNote X4 Video Tutorials #2: Adding Known Articles to EndNote

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:11:00 +0000

This tutorial demonstrates how to add the reference of a known article into your EndNote library via the PubMed connection file from within EndNote. Again, this is best if you have a stack of known articles and need to quickly enter their references into EndNote. This is not recommended if you do not have known articles and need to do subject searches. In that case, you can do your searches in PubMed directly and use the technique I showed you in the previous tutorial to import the search results into EndNote.

EndNote X4 Video Tutorials #1: Importing PubMed Records to EndNote

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:37:00 +0000

This tutorial demonstrates how to import PubMed search results into EndNote. It's a two-step process: first, save the PubMed records into a text file in MEDLINE format, and then import the saved file into EndNote. This is the recommended method if you want to take advantage of PubMed's powerful subject search capabilities.

CINAHL Video Tutorials #10: Saving Searches as Alerts and RSS Feeds

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:30:00 +0000

This tutorial demonstrates how to save your search strategy / history as an email alert or RSS feed, which allows you to keep current with new research developments of your topic. This video also wraps up the CINAHL Video Tutorials series.

CINAHL Video Tutorials #9: Saving Searches

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:52:00 +0000

This tutorial demonstrates how to save search strategy / search history permanently in CINAHL to allow retrieval and automatic rerun in the future.

CINAHL Video Tutorials #8: Exporting Search Results to EndNote

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:44:00 +0000

This tutorial demonstrates how to export CINAHL search results to EndNote, a popular desktop citation management application. It covers step by step instructions for the Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari browsers on both Windows and Mac systems.

CINAHL Video Tutorials #7: Exporting Search Results to RefWorks

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:40:00 +0000

This tutorial demonstrates how to export search results from CINAHL to RefWorks, a popular web-base citation management application available at the Medical Library.

CINAHL Video Tutorials #6: Search Result Display

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:53:00 +0000

This tutorials covers the search result display of CINAHL, including how to save, email, print search results, and how to find full text of articles.

CINAHL Video Tutorials #5: Combining and Limiting Searches

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:01:00 +0000

This tutorial teaches how to combine searches using Boolean operators and how to set common limits on searches, such as age groups, time spans, etc.

CINAHL Video Tutorials #4: CINAHL Headings (Part II)

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:07:00 +0000

This tutorial covers the CINAHL headings tree structure, exploding a heading, using a heading as a major concept, and subheadings.

CINAHL Video Tutorials #3: CINAHL Headings (Part I)

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:19:00 +0000

This tutorial introduces the CINAHL headings system used in the CINAHL database - what it is and why it helps conduct a better search in the system.

CINAHL Video Tutorials #2: Formulating Your Questions

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:46:00 +0000

This tutorial teaches how to formulate, using the PICO model, a focused, well-built question for an effective, exhaustive literature search in CINAHL.

CINAHL Video Tutorials #1: Introduction

lei.wang@yale.edu (Cushing / Whitney Medical Library) — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:02:00 +0000

These tutorials teach how to conduct effective searches in the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) database, the premier nursing literature database available at the Yale Medical Library. These videos demonstrate how to build a focused question for an effective search in CINAHL, the CINAHL headings system, how to combine and limit searches, how to export search results to citation management systems such as EndNote and RefWorks, and much more.

This is the first of the series, covering the access of CINAHL, setting up EbscoHost account, and an overview of the interface.