Classes and Instruction

Contact a Librarian listed below to arrange a library instruction session for your class or group. Classes can be customized to cover scientific research or assignments, address group research needs, or cover more general topics. Existing classes are mentioned below; others can be created.

See the Class Schedule Calendar for these and all other classes being offered by the UC Davis Libraries in the near future.

Davis Campus

Librarians

Deanna Johnson
Reference & Instruction Librarian
deejohnson@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑3271
Amy Studer
Reference & Instruction Librarian
astuder@lib.ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑1678
Bernadette Swanson
Reference & Instruction Librarian
bmswanson@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑7637
Mary Wood
Animal Alternatives Librarian
mwwood@ucdavis.edu — (530) 754‑9122

Classes

Accessing Literature in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Want help accessing the online and print published literature in the fields of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine? We can help! Learn the ins and outs of using online textbooks, PubMed, CAB Abstracts, Web of Science and Google Scholar; accessing or ordering articles and books via UC-eLinks; remotely accessing online materials; and setting up alerting services in the databases to help keep up with your interests. If interested, ask about Journal Citation Reports which indicates the top journals in a discipline. Who should attend? DVM and MPVM students or anyone interested in accessing the online and print published literature in the Health Sciences fields. See our Description of Classes for scheduled sessions.
Questions? Please contact Mary Wood, mwwood@ucdavis.edu, (530) 754‑9122.
Accessing the Public Health Literature
Want help searching the literature of public health and accessing full-text resources? We can help! Learn how to search and find articles in PubMed. Additional databases and public health related data sources will be covered based on the interests of attendees. See our Description of Classes for scheduled sessions.
Questions? Please contact Amy Studer, astuder@lib.ucdavis.edu, (530) 752‑1678.
EndNote for the Health Sciences: free download for UC Davis students, staff and faculty
Want to manage and use the literature you gather better? We can help! Learn how to easily collect, store, organize, and retrieve articles with EndNote. Learn how to create and format references for your own papers, posters or publications using the right style for the occasion (JAVMA, NEJM, Science, NLM Style and thousands more). Discover how to attach and access the full text of those articles, and to keep personal notes about the articles you have read. Bring your laptop if possible. Who should attend? Anyone interested in using the bibliographic management software Endnote or EndNote Web. See our Description of Classes for scheduled sessions.
Questions? Please contact Deanna Johnson, djohnson@lib.ucdavis.edu, (530) 752‑3271.
EndNote Advanced for the Health Sciences
Assumes attendees already understand how to export citations from research databases and manage citations in an EndNote library, and send citations to a manuscript to create in-text citations and a bibliography. This class will build upon this foundation by introducing more advanced EndNote functions such as: customizing and creating new output styles; using journal term lists; managing images, tables, and figures; and constructing a paper with built-in templates. Bring your laptop. See our Description of Classes for scheduled sessions.
Questions? Please contact Raquel Abad, rjabad@ucdavis.edu, (916) 734‑3870.

Sacramento Campus

Librarians

Raquel Abad
Reference & Instruction Librarian
rjabad@lib.ucdavis.edu — (916) 734‑3870
Bruce Abbott
Reference & Instruction Librarian
btabbott@ucdavis.edu — (916) 734‑3529
Rebecca Davis
Acting Department Head, Blaisdell Medical Library
radavis@ucdavis.edu — (916) 734‑3529

See Class Schedule Calendar