Pathobiology 6440
Library Research Session
Monday October 24, 2011
Library Resources - Judy Wanner from the library Learning & Curriculum Support Team will review
library and Learning Commons resources specifically for grad student and TA’s such as the Graduate
Students Learning Initiative. Handouts explaining these services are provided. Further information is
available at:1. http://gsli.uoguelph.ca/
2. http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/assistance/learning_services/graduates/
3. http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/assistance/learning_services/graduates/learning_services_for_TAs.cfm
Today will be a full session on using library resources to support graduate research. The following
resources will be reviewed and demonstrated following a brief introduction to the library homepage:
http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/
RefWorks/Write-n-Cite - RefWorks is a bibliographic management service that will collect, store and
organize citations you've found to journal articles, books, web sites and other sources. A really great
timesaver when writing, especially for thesis work, it will create correctly formatted bibliographies
and manuscripts automatically to the format you specify. Available to all registered students.
http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/research/create_bibliographies/
PRIMO – The central catalogue of holdings for the Tri_University Group – Guelph, Waterloo, and Laurier
and their affiliated libraries. PRIMO allows interactive searching for print materials, videos, sound
recordings, e-books, e-journals, databases. Note that journals, magazines, databases, and indexes will be
listed by title only, and individual articles will not be listed. http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/
Journal Database Searching – Databases relevant to Pathobiology such as Scholars Portal, PubMed,
Web of Science, FSTA, CABI, and AGRICOLA will be highlighted.
Internet Resources – Google Scholar, Google Books and Google Images will be reviewed.
Data Resource Center (DRC) - The Data Resource Centre (DRC) acts as a central repository for
statistical/numerical and geospatial data collections available on campus, and provides support at all
levels for the use of data in teaching, learning and research at the University of Guelph.
http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/resources/data_resource_centre/
Research Support - Jane Burpee from the library Research Enterprise & Scholarly Communication
Team http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/resc/ is responsible for how the library supports and contributes to
the work of science researchers and research teams on campus throughout all phases of the research
cycle. From the time you conceive of a research project until after you finish work on the project the
RE&SC team will work with you in the areas of information management, data curation, dissemination,
publication, collaboration and long-term preservation. Jane’s session will include discussion of the
ATRIUM, the University of Guelph's institutional repository, is to promote scholarly communication by
collecting and preserving the University of Guelph's intellectual output and ensuring that it has high
visibility and accessibility. http://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/
Judy Wanner jwanner@uoguelph.ca x.54055
Jane Burpee jburpee@uoguelph.ca x. 54255