8:30 - 8:45 Welcome

8:45 - 9:00 Introduction

9:00 - 10:00 MeSH Vocabulary

10:00 - 10:15 BREAK

10:15 - 12:00 PubMed®

• Background
• How It Works
• Navigating Your Results
• Practice Exercises

12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH

1:00 - 2:00 Features Tabs (Limits, History, etc.), Practice Exercises

2:00 - 3:00 Related Articles/Linkout

2:30 - 2:45 BREAK

2:45 - 3:15 My NCBI

3:15 - 3:45 MeSH Browser/Practice Exercises

3:45 - 4:15 Search Rules and Syntax

• Boolean Operators
• Nesting
• Search Field Descriptors

4:15 - 4:45 Clinical Queries, Single Citation Matcher, Practice Exercises (Single Citation Matcher)

4:45 - 5:00 Closing

8:30 - 8:45 Welcome

8:45 - 10:00 NLM Gateway

• Background
• Searching
• Functions
• Download/Display
• Order Documents

10:00 - 10:15 BREAK

10:15 - 11:00

• Features
• Find Terms
• Limits
• History
• Locker
• Preferences
• Practice Exercises

11:00 - 12:00 ClinicalTrials.gov

• Basic Search
• Focus Search
• Browse
• Resources
• Practice Exercises
• Browse

1:00 - 1:15 Welcome and Introductions

1:15 - 1:45 Quick Review of Basic Skills

1:45 - 2:15 What's New

2:15 - 2:25 BREAK

2:25 - 2:40 MeSH

2:40 - 2:55 Field Tag Searching

2:55 - 3:15 Subsets

3:15 - 3:30 Discipline Searching

3:30 - 3:45 Outside Searches & Clinical Queries

3:45 - 4:00 Wrap up, evaluations

• Overview of NLM's PubMed® applications for the PDA.
• Locating and installing the relevant software.
• Searching PubMed®/Medline via a specialized interface that is formatted for the PDA.
• Using filters and limits for advanced searching.
• Viewing search results on the PDA.
• Browsing journal abstracts on the PDA.
• Searching ClinicalTrials.gov on the PDA.
• Providing feedback on these products.

1:00 - 1:30 LinkOut Overview

1:30 - 2:30 Steps To Setting Up LinkOut

• Familiarize
• Organize
• Register/Sign Up
• Customize/Icon-ize
• Enter Holdings
• Activate
• Publicize

2:30 - 3:00 Using LinkOut

3:00 - 3:30 LinkOut Beyond Journals

3:30 - 5:00 Hands-on Practice

9:00 - 9:30 Overview of NLM Tox Resources

9:30 - 10:30 TOXNET Overview, HSDB & Related Files

10:30 - 10:45 BREAK

10:45 - 11:30 Toxline and Related Files

11:30 - 12:15 Practicum

12:15 - 1:30 LUNCH

1:30 - 2:15 TRI and other Specialty Files

2:15 - 3:00 Non-NLM Resources

3:00 - 3:15 BREAK

3:15 - 3:45 ChemIDplus

3:45 - 4:30 Practicum

8:30 - 8:45 Welcome and Introduction

8:45 - 9:15 UMLS Overview

9:15 - 10:15 Controlled Vocabularies and the UMLS

10:15 - 10:30 BREAK

10:30 - 11:00 Controlled Vocabularies, continued

11:00 - 12:00 Metathesaurus

12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH

1:00 - 1:30 Metathesaurus: Customizing with MetamorphoSys

1:30 - 2:00 Semantic Network

2:00 - 2:30 SPECIALIST Lexicon

2:30 - 3:15 UMLS Knowledge Source Server Advanced Features

3:15 - 3:30 BREAK

3:30 - 3:45 UMLS Applications

3:45 - 4:15 Standards, HIPAA, and the Future

4:15 - 4:30 What's New with the UMLS

4:30 - 5:00 Questions, Evaluation, Certificates