Presentation for NUTR 8621 students, Sept. 24, 2012

1. NUTR 8621
Library Skills
Megan Kocher
mkocher@umn.edu
September 24, 2012

2. Day 1 Agenda
• Introductions
• What can you find on the library website?
• Databases
• Citation Managers

3. Who am I?
Megan Kocher
• Librarian for 3 departments:
– Food Science and Nutrition
– Animal Science
– Soil, Water, and Climate
• mkocher@umn.edu
• 612-625-3605

4. www.lib.umn.edu

5. What can you find on the
website?
Books Dissertations
Articles
Journals Databases
Interlibrary Loan Tools Grants
Data Management
Copyright Impact Factors
Your Saved Resources

6. Databases
Most Useful Databases
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PubMed Google Scholar FSTA

7. PubMed
Ninja skills
• Ovid vs. PubMed
• Setting Limits
• Check your MeSH terms
• Combine searches
• Save Searches / My NCBI

8. Google Scholar
Ninja skills
• Add FindIt Links
• Author search
• Titles in quotations
• Set alerts
• View citing articles

9. Food Science & Technology
Abstracts (FSTA)
Ninja Skills
• Thesaurus searching
• Map to subject heading
• What will you find here?
– Food safety
– Food processing
– Food technology

10. Other Useful Databases
• Web of Science • CAB Abstracts
– General science – Agriculture focus
– Cited by references – Animal nutrition
– Impact factors – Some human
• Scopus nutrition
– Similar to Web of – Conference
Science, but some proceedings
different journals

11. Citation Managers
Citation Managers You Use
EndNote (3)
Mendeley (2)
RefWorks (2)
Zotero (0)

12. Image Credits
“Glum Ninjas: Classic-Style Ninja Preview” CC BY-NC-ND, plushplex, Flickr.
Ninja symbol CC BY Anand Nair, from The Noun Project