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The Grunigen Medical Library offers instructional workshops in conducting online research, managing bibliographic citations, copyright issues in instruction and research, and more.

  • All workshops listed here are held at the Grunigen Medical Library in Building 22A located at the UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, CA (unless otherwise noted).
  • The workshops are free and open to all UCI faculty, staff, and students.
  • To register, click link under its description.
  • Space is limited and seats are given on a first-come, first-serve basis.
  • To Register, once at the UC Learning site, search for "Library workshop" to see our current offerings.

If you wish to cancel your registration, you must contact the Library via email at gml@uci.edu at least 24 hours prior to the workshop.


Title: Introduction to PubMed
Description: This workshop provides basic instruction on how to search the PubMed database, including searching techniques, limits, and display options. You will also learn about printing and emailing capabilities as well as availability of online full-text articles.
Date: February 27, 2012
Time: 11:00AM-12:00PM
Location: ITC Classroom
Instructors: Linda Murphy, MLIS
Register: Log in to UCLC to sign up!


Title: PubMed Advanced
Description: This workshop provides Advanced techniques in using PubMed. Topics include combining searches, nested search strategies, when to use PubMed Clinical Queries and Systematic Reviews and how to save searches on PubMed for future re-runs.
Date: March 23, 2012
Time: 11:00AM-12:00PM
Location: ITC Classroom
Instructors: Steve Clancy, MLIS
Register: Log in to UCLC to sign up!


Title: Endnote X5
Description: This workshop covers the basics of the bibliographic management tool EndNote X5, including how to save selected references in various formats for research papers or documents. You will also learn how to use the EndNote X5 tools to create bibliographies and references sources. The focus of this session is health sciences.
Date: March 26, 2012
Time: 10:00AM-11:30AM
Location: ITC Classroom
Instructors: Linda Murphy, MLIS
Register: Log in to UCLC to sign up!


Title: How to Get Full-Text Articles
Description: This workshop is an introduction to finding full-text journal articles as quickly as possible. Topics covered will include finding articles from database searches (e.g., PubMed), from bibliographies, and with only partial information. Finding aids such as the Antpac Online Catalog and the PubMed Single Citation matcher will be demonstrated. Additional information will be presented on obtaining articles via interlibrary loans and transfers from the libraries on the Irvine Campus.
Date: April 4, 2012
Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: ITC Classroom
Instructors: Steve Clancy, MLIS
Register: Log in to UCLC to sign up!