Chemical and Biological Engineering Student Association in collaboration with the Graduate Student Association organized an interactive workshop today in the Hill Conference Room to show how different features within ENDNOTE can be efficiently used by graduate students while they begin to write their research papers and proposals.

Presentations and Handouts covered during this workshop are available From Engineering Reference page.

These are:

• EndNote 2010 Presentation ** X3 UpDate **
• Biomedical Databases Handout
• Engineering Databases Handout

and proposals.

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Adil Mudassir, a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, recounts his literature search experience for a class assignment for a course during the Spring term.

In his own words:

“I attended a library information seminar in Fall 07 and through it, got to know about the plethora of information and resources made available at the library. This was useful for me during the ECE-C633 course I took this Spring under Dr. Sethu. We were to do a literature survey and critique a technical paper in the field of networking. I was able to go to the IEEE Transactions as well as ACM Digital Library through the library and then decided on the following paper – Efficient Cache Management for Multi-hop Wireless Networks -  -  getting all this information in the library helped me a lot for my coursework.”

PubMed offers RSS 2.0 (Really Simple Syndication) feeds of updated content available in the database. An RSS reader is required to use this service on your computer and retrieve new items from PubMed. There are numerous RSS readers from which to choose and many are available to download free from the Web.  See ‘Using RSS to increase user awareness of e-resources in academic libraries‘ for more information on keeping current with new information from various electronic resources.  Try web based feed readers such as Google Reader or Bloglines to subscribe to feeds of updated content from PubMed or any other databases that provide RSS feeds option.

See: RSS feeds from PubMed

To set up an RSS feed:
(1) Run your search in PubMed.
(2) Select RSS Feed from the Send to menu.
(3) Click Create Feed and copy the XML icon into your RSS Reader