Dear all

Apologies for cross-posting.

The Wellcome Library is offering a series of 1-hour workshops on using
the Wellcome Library's resources. They may be of interest to researchers
in the social sciences and the history of medicine.  The sessions are
listed below or can be accessed at
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node32.html.

All the sessions start at 2pm and are free-of-charge.  To book a place
on any of the sessions below, telephone 020 7611 8722 or email
mailto:[log in to unmask] 

Thanks
Louise Simon
Wellcome Library

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1) Discovering Library resources 

a) The key to the medicine cabinet: unlocking resources in archives and
manuscripts
Tuesday 6 November and Tuesday 4 December
Have you ever thought about using archives and manuscripts in your
research? We hold the most important history of medicine collection in
Britain, and whatever your topic we are likely to hold an unexpected
archival gem for you. By the end of the workshop you will know how to
browse our Archive and Manuscripts catalogue with confidence, refine
your searches, navigate between the Library catalogue and Archive and
Manuscripts, and order up materials. 

b) Wellcome Images
Tuesday 16 October, Tuesday 20 November and Tuesday 11 December
Do you need a picture? Find what you need from Wellcome Images: search
160 000 pictures online, covering the history of medicine and the
history of human culture from the earliest periods of civilisation to
the present day. 
 
2) Making the most of databases 

a) ECCO and EEBO
Thursday 18 October; Thursday 15 November; Thursday 13 December
Did you know that you can view digitised images of many rare historic
books? The Wellcome Library subscribes to two rich sources of digitised
books: ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) and EEBO (Early
English Books Online). Learn how to search and browse these databases,
and find out about other sources. 

b) Times Digital Archive and the Lancet
Tuesday 9 October; Thursday 25 October; Thursday 22 November
For 19th- and 20th-century history, find out how events and research
discoveries were first reported. Two hundred years of the Times and 180
years of the Lancet are available online in full text - explore book
reviews, articles, letters editorials and advertising. 

c) PubMed and PubMed Central: an introduction
Thursday 4 October; Tuesday 27 November
Are you looking for the latest findings on diabetes or for historical
research on radiology? Take a closer look at PubMed, one of the leading
databases for locating research articles in the fields of health,
medicine and dentistry. It contains over 15 million references back to
the 1950s and is freely available to anyone with access to the internet.
It is linked to PubMed Central, a free archive of life sciences
journals. 
 
3) Exploring themes 

a) Hunt the Ancestor: Resources for family history
Thursday 11 October; Thursday 8 November; Thursday 6 December
Was someone in your family a doctor, nurse or patient? Find out about
the wealth of resources available to the family historian. 

b) Free for All: History of medicine on the web
Thursday 29 November
Where can you access over 600 000 free full-text journal articles? What
online resource includes access to over 3600 digitised medical
resources? What is the WWW-Virtual Library for the History of Medicine?
Find the best places to start if you are looking for reliable,
accessible history of medicine resources on the internet. 	 	
 
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Louise Simon
Education, Training & Resources
The Wellcome Library
183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7611 7316
Fax: +44 (0)20 7611 8369


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