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ISC B&P seminars<br />

Bits & Pieces seminars meet for one hour at the CRC, 3732<br />

Locust Walk, unless otherwise noted. Registration, required<br />

for asterisked seminars only, begins Wednesday, April 26. Call<br />

573-3102.<br />

Accessing the Internet using PennNet<br />

May 3, noon; July 5, noon<br />

An overview <strong>of</strong> PennNet services and demonstration<br />

<strong>of</strong> how to access popular Internet resources via PennNet.<br />

Introduction to NewsWatcher (Mac)<br />

May 10, noon<br />

Introduction to newsgroups, covering subscribing,<br />

setting preferences, and posting and reading messages.<br />

What You Really Need to Know about DOS*<br />

May 11, noon–1:30 PM<br />

Covers basic system parts, terms, and commands<br />

needed to get started using DOS. Includes a 1/2-hour<br />

practice session. Fulfills DOS prerequisite.<br />

Introduction to Fetch (Mac)<br />

May 11, noon; July 19, noon<br />

Introduction to file transfers over the Internet using<br />

Fetch. Covers starting Fetch, connecting to a host,<br />

short cuts, and viewing and downloading files.<br />

Introduction to WS_FTP<br />

May 17, noon; July 20, noon<br />

Introduction to file transfers over the Internet using<br />

WS_FTP. Covers starting FTP, connecting to a host,<br />

and viewing and downloading files.<br />

Introduction to Mosaic<br />

May 24, noon; July 13, noon<br />

Introduction to Internet browsers using Mosaic.<br />

Covers configuring Mosaic to launch Penn’s home<br />

ISC custom training services<br />

Technology Learning Services<br />

(TLS), ISC’s training group, <strong>of</strong>fers<br />

additional services to departments,<br />

including custom training classes,<br />

learning needs assessments, and<br />

lab rentals.<br />

TLS also <strong>of</strong>fers other learning<br />

resources such as instructional tip<br />

sheets and tutorials. Call us at<br />

573-3102 for more information.<br />

page, setting preferences, creating hotlists, and<br />

navigating to popular Internet sites.<br />

Biomedical Library<br />

Courses<br />

All courses meet in the Biomedical Library. Registration:<br />

Call 898-5817.<br />

Intro to the New OVID MEDLINE and CINAHL/Nursing<br />

May 3, 2–4 PM; May 15, 1–3 PM; May 23, 10–noon; June<br />

7, 3–5 PM; June 15, noon-2 PM; June 23, 9–11 AM; July<br />

10, 4–6 PM; July 18, 9–11 AM, July 26, 1–3 PM; August<br />

10, 3–5 PM; August 18, 10-noon<br />

The OVID search system <strong>of</strong>fers access to the full<br />

MEDLINE database, 1966 to the present, as well as<br />

CINAHL/Nursing, the Cumulative Index to Nursing<br />

and Allied Health Literature database, 1983 to the<br />

present. Covers OVID subject, author, journal, and<br />

text word search techniques that can be used in either<br />

MEDLINE or CINAHL.<br />

Biomedical Information on the Internet<br />

May 5, 9–11 AM; June 21, 1–3 PM; August 8, 10–noon<br />

An overview <strong>of</strong> basic Internet applications, touching<br />

on activities such as e-mail, discussion groups, telnet,<br />

file transfer protocol, and gopher servers, as they<br />

relate to the biomedical community. Although the<br />

class demonstrations focus on Macintosh s<strong>of</strong>tware,<br />

DOS users will also find this workshop helpful.<br />

Registrants must obtain a network ID and password<br />

before attending the course.<br />

Advanced Subject Searching<br />

July 24, 10 AM–noon<br />

Focuses on how to execute effective searches when<br />

using various systems for MEDLINE (e.g., OVID,<br />

Grateful Med, CDP, and SilverPlatter). Concentrates<br />

on how to use the thesaurus <strong>of</strong> subject headings.<br />

Topics include choosing broader or narrower terms to<br />

refine searches, using subheadings to focus results,<br />

combining subject headings to develop a search<br />

strategy, and revising search strategies if a search fails<br />

to retrieve adequate articles.<br />

Current Contents on the PennLIN System<br />

By appointment. Call 898-9905<br />

Topics include limiting by subfile, limiting by latest<br />

entry month, and basic keyword searching in Current<br />

Contents, which indexes over 6,500 scientific journals.<br />

RefMan/EndNote Plus Macintosh Demonstration<br />

By appointment. Call 898-9905<br />

Topics include creating a database, entering references<br />

from the keyboard, importing references from data-<br />

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