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The Marvin K. Peterson Library is offering the following workshops, which are open to everyone in the UNH Community. To schedule your own Library Instruction session, either for your class or for an individual session, please contact Hanko Dobi at 203-932-7189 or by email.
All workshops are held in Room 213 in the Library.
Library Workshops for Fall 2009
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection, PsycARTICLES, and PsycINFO These 3 psychology databases provide excellent coverage for this subject area. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Topics covered are definitive source of searchable, full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database contains more than 40,000 articles from 56 journals--45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. PsycINFO from the American Psychological Association (APA) is the online version of Psychological Abstracts. It contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in more than 25 languages. | Monday | 4:00pm |
BNA Human Resources Library. BNA's Human Resources Library provides practical, comprehensive, and timely coverage of workplace issues of interest to HR professionals, consultants, and attorneys | Tuesday
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Writing the Research Paper: Tips and Tricks This workshop is intended to help you with the research process from brainstorming on how to select a topic to finding the sources you need to write a solid paper. We will cover various print and electronic sources that will help you in your paper. Bring your questions! | Saturday Sept. 26 | 11:00am |
Criminal Justice Research Discussion This session will give an overview of our criminal justice and law enforcement resources, as well as recommended websites. Agenda databases below to be introduced and reviewed selectively as time permits and as attendees request: | Monday Sept. 28 | 4:00pm |
Homeland Security Digital Library. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Grants and Training and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security. This database provides access to U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national security documents, as well as theses and reports from academic institutions and local and state organizations. Homeland security researchers review and organize all the material available in the HSDL. | Tuesday Sept. 29 | 5:00pm |
America's Newspapers America's Newspapers is currently on preview through October 31st. This session will show you how to use this database. The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded. | Tuesday, October 6 | 5:00pm |
Global Issues Research Discussion This session will give an overview of our resources for researching issues of current, worldwide consequence like human rights, poverty, global warming, etc. Agenda databases below to be introduced and reviewed selectively as time permits and as attendees request: | Monday October 12 | 4:00pm |
| Engineering Village database from Elsevier: The most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines, it includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings, from 1969 to the present. This session will present ways to use the database and options for obtaining the full text of the documents. | Tuesday, October 13 | 3:30pm |
IRIS (Illinois Researcher Information Service) A searchable database of over 8,000 federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, updated daily. The database is available on the worldwide web for UNH faculty, students and staff. A listing of upcoming deadlines from the database, organized by academic level and subject, is included. You can create an alert service using your own search criteria and set it to run at intervals you specify. | Wednesday, November 4 | 12:00 noon |
University of New Haven Archives in the Peterson Library: The library maintains an institutional Archive for our university. This includes documents, photographs, building layouts, etc. from many university departments, from the 1920s to the present. This year we are beginning to digitize and post some of these items online. This session will review what types of material are available in the Archives and how you can access them. | Monday, November 9 | 3:30pm |
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Researching with e-Journals This session will cover publishers' collections of e-journals subscribed by the library, how to access them, why we have them, which publishers' collections are available here, how they relate with our other database resources, and how to use them for research. | Available Upon Request | |
Business and Company Research Discussion This session will give an overview of our business and company research resources, as well as recommended websites. Agenda databases below to be introduced and reviewed selectively as time permits and as attendees request: | Available Upon Request | |
The Literature Review What is it? How do I conduct one? Come to this workshop to answer these and more of your questions. Learn how a literature review is different from a research paper. See samples of literature reviews from a variety of subjects. Get informed so that you can create your own literature review. | Available Upon Request | |
General Science Research This session will explore ways to find peer-reviewed scientific information online through resources provided by the Marvin K. Peterson Library. Sources that may be discussed include Science Resource Center, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Health and Wellness Resource Center, Science.gov, and Scirus. | Available Upon Request | |
Legal Research
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Research Basics This session presents a six-step approach to tackling your research project. It includes discussion of selecting topics, devising search strategies, locating resources, citing references, and more. | Available Upon Request | |
Reference USA. Online directory database of U.S. businesses. Contains call-verified data from phone books and public records sources, updated monthly, on more than 14 million U.S. companies, down to even the smallest. The search interface can produce customized lists of companies according to multiple criteria, including line of business, sales volume, employee size, geographic area, and more. Additional modules have U.S. healthcare providers and residential listings. | Available Upon Request |
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Academic OneFile A first-choice database for peer-reviewed articles from leading journals in all subject areas. It includes content from over 12,000 publications, over half of which are available full-text in PDF or HTML format. This is supplemented with material from major newspapers, reference books, news transcripts, NPR broadcasts, podcast audios, and more. Millions of articles from 1980 to present, with daily updates. Numerous search and save options are available as well as citation-management assistance. | Available Upon Request |
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Business and Company Resource Center. Learn how to research company profiles, brand information, market intelligence, rankings, financials, investment reports, histories and industry news going back twenty years. | Available Upon Request |
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Mental Measurements Yearbook / Tests in Print These databases are online versions of the standard psychology reference books of the same names. MMY assists test administrators in evaluating over 2,000 testing instruments for use in psychological, educational, and vocational applications. TIP is a bibliography of commercially available English-language tests and provides information about the purpose and intended population of the test as well as ordering data. MMY and TIP both include references to journal articles that review and discuss the tests. | Available Upon Request |
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History Resource Center/Science Resource Center from Gale History Resource Center: U.S. and History Resource Center: World are helpful for those doing school research but also of interest to fans of history. Included in thiese databases are references works, magazines, journals and primary sources. Guides for students and faculty in using these databases for research are included. Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs. This 24/7 resource reflects curriculum trends and focuses on key concepts taught in school classrooms, including Earth, Life, Physical and Space Sciences, Sciences & Technology, and much more, from reference works, magazines & journals, web sites, multi-media clips, and other resources | Available Upon Request |
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General Science Resources This session will explore ways to find peer-reviewed scientific information online through resources provided by the Marvin K. Peterson Library. Sources that may be discussed include Science Resource Center, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Health and Wellness Resource Center, Science.gov, and Scirus. | Available Upon Request |
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FORENSICnetBASE/LawENFORCEMENTnetBASE. From CRC Press, this database is an essential resource for those studying forensic science techniques or needing case studies. Get the full text of vital reference books in the forensic sciences and criminal justice. Categories covered: Counterterrorism; Criminal Justice and Law; Forensics; Law Enforcement. | Available Upon Request |
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Conference Board. The online version of the print source of information on economic and business issues. Includes reports, articles, and economic data for the United States on management, economic and financial issues. | Available Upon Request |
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Directory of Corporate Affiliations. Current, accurate corporate linkage information and company profiles on nearly 200,000 of the most prominent global public and private parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions-down to the seventh level of corporate linkage. | Available Upon Request |
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Mergent Online. The online version of several Mergent (formerly Moody's) publications on U.S. and international companies. Information includes company financials, company officials, and country information from the CIA World Factbook. Provides Access to EDGAR (SEC) filings that can be downloaded in Excel or PDF formats. | Available Upon Request |
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HeinOnline. HeinOnline has four major library collections: Law Journal Library, Federal Register Library, Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. Items are image-based and fully-searchable and provide comprehensive coverage from the inception of each publication. | Available Upon Request |
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CQ Global Researcher and CQ Researcher During this session we will learn about two databases. CQ Researcher provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Controversial topics are addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner. CQ Global Researcher focuses on global affairs and aims to expose students to a variety of international viewpoints on a selected topic. | Available Upon Request |
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ABI/INFORM (from ProQuest) Learn how to effectively use this important suite of business databases.
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This page last updated on August 21, 2009.