Monthly Archives: October 2013

Check out a cool new resource: Anatomy.TV

The UDM Library has a cool new resource: Anatomy.TV. Anatomy TV is an online model of the human body.  Derived from real human data, Anatomy.tv provides over 5,000 interactive 3D anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, animations and much more. To supplement the core three-dimensional anatomy data, are clinical videos and text written by some of the world’s leading medical specialists. Finally, the quiz section lets you test your knowledge of anatomy. The database is divided into sections: Regional Anatomy Surgery...

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Database Information , , Updated: October 30, 2013

24/7 Library Research Help

Can’t find the scholarly references you need for your research paper, but the library is closed? Don’t worry, librarians are available to help 24/7 through our Ask a Librarian chat service. Look to the upper right of the re:search portal.  You’ll see a green box labeled “Ask a Librarian”.  Type a question into the bottom of the box and a librarian will answer. When the library is open, you’ll be chatting with a UDM librarian. When the library is closed,...

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Uncategorized , , Updated: October 23, 2013

Attaching Your Research Paper in RefWorks

Tired of the dog eating your papers, or losing your jump drive? Want to save a draft of your paper in the cloud? You can do it in RefWorks. First, save your paper either on your computer or on a jump drive. Now, open RefWorks and create a citation. To create a citation in RefWorks go to References, click Add New. Type your own name as author, and if you wish, give it a title–the same as your paper or...

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Research Assistance Updated: October 14, 2013

Attaching Full Text Articles to a RefWorks Reference

Have you ever printed out articles full text from a database only to discover days later that you are missing the last page or two? Or saved the article to your jump drive and can’t find it? Worry no more. You can attach the full text of any article to its reference in RefWorks. Here’s how: Login to RefWorks in Mozilla Firefox. Export the reference to RefWorks. Save the article full text to either your computer or a jump drive....

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Research Assistance Updated: February 10, 2014

RefWorks Part 1 – The Best Tool You’ll Ever Love

I know what you’re thinking. It’s grueling, tedious and time-consuming. I’m referring to typing research papers and getting the in-text citations right and then typing that bibliography at the end with all that confusing formatting. Well, not anymore. UDM Libraries has a tool that makes the formatting of your citations oh so easy and its called RefWorks. Over the next three weeks, this blog will describe just how powerful a tool RefWorks can be when you are doing a research...

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Research Assistance Updated: October 1, 2013