Webinar Archive

• Beyond PowerPoint: Other Tools for Presentations

(March 13, 2013) Tired of PowerPoint? In this webinar, Laurissa Gann will preview other types of persentation tools, such as KeyNote, Prezi, & Slideshare.

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Presentation Tools Handout

• iPad Basics

(February 14, 2013) This webinar will help you develop or refresh your iPad skills.

Topics covered:

Gestures
Organizing & Syncing your apps
Save your battery power
WiFi on campus
Medical apps & mobile websites

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iPad Basics Handout

• EndNote Web "In the Cloud"

(November 14, 2012) This webinar covers EndNote Web, an online version of EndNote. EndNote Web can be used to collect and organize references and format citations.

Topics covered:

Building a library through the web
Managing references through the web
Creating and sharing groups
Using the capture button
Using the Cite While You Write plugin

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Getting Started with EndNote Web Document

• PubMed Tips & Tricks

(October 10, 2012) Want to learn quick tips and tricks to make your PubMed searching a little easier? The Research Medical Library will host this 30-minute webinar to assist you.

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• EndNote in 30 Minutes

(Sept. 12, 2012) This webinar will give you a quick introduction to EndNote. Including, how to add a reference, how to find a citation style and how to cite in Word with Endnote.

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• Research Profiles - Track Your Publications & FInd Collaborators

(August 8, 2012) This webinar will show you how to create a research profile using ResearcherID and Google Citations. Research profiles help you track your publications, citation count and h-index. They can also be a great source to connect you to future potential collaborators. SciVal Experts, a curated database of MD Anderson faculty research profiles, will also be demonstrated.

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• Editing a Citation Style in EndNote

(June 13, 2012) Topics covered:

How to edit a citation style template.
How to format your bibliography by editing the style template.

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• Citing in Microsoft Word with EndNote

(May 9, 2012) Topics covered:

How to insert citations into a Word document.
How to remove citations from a Word document.
How to select your style.
Preparing your bibliography for publication.

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• Preparing to Cite in EndNote

(April 11, 2012) Topics covered:

Attaching full-text articles to each record.
Removing duplicates.
Locating your citation style.
Combining and e-mailing libraries.

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• Building an EndNote Library

(March 14, 2012) Topics covered:

How to add references from a database or website.
How to search PubMed through EndNote.
How to add references manually.

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• Clinical Mobile Resources "In the Cloud"

(October 25, 2011) This webinar will demonstrate how to use UpToDate and DynaMed on your smartphone or iPad. These resources review and highlight the latest information about diagnoses, treatments and drug interactions.

Topics covered:

How to access UpToDate and DynaMed
How to search for medical and drug topics

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• NIH Access Policy Compliance

(March 15, 2011) NIH requires researchers who receive funding from them to submit their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts of their journal articles to PubMed Central. By making journal articles freely accessibly through PubMed Central, you can increase your citation count, readership and impact. 

This webinar provides an overview of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy including: compliance, copyright, the process of submitting your article to PubMed Central and including PMCID numbers in your EndNote libraries.

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• BLAST Class

(October 25, 2010) From NCBI’s Peter Cooper, Ph.D.
“BLAST finds regions of local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as help identify members of gene families.”

Learn about the traditional BLAST programs including:

blastn nucleotide query vs. nucleotide database
blastp protein query vs. protein database
blastx nucleotide query vs. protein database
tblastn protein query vs. translated nucleotide database
tblastx translated query vs. translated database

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• MDACC Oncomine Overview

(July 20, 2010) Oncomine is a web application that combines the world's most important cancer genomics data from high impact, peer-reviewed publications into a searchable interface allowing you to probe the expression of a gene across thousands of cancer samples, explore genes, processes, and pathways deregulated in a particular type of cancer. Oncomine’s Gary Daubresse explains how Oncomine can benefit your proposal writing and cancer research.

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