Workshops

The Weizmann Library offers free and open workshops and training sessions designed to help faculty, students, and staff with the various challenges they face searching for scientific information resources for their research.
Information Literacy Workshops for New Students
Personal and Group Training Sessions
Information-Providers' Seminars

Information Literacy Workshops for New Students

These workshops are organized in cooperation with the Feinberg Graduate School at the beginning of each academic year.
All new students are requested to attend in order to get familiar with available Library and information resources, services and know-how.

Presentations of the November 2009 workshops:
• The Library and its Homepage: An overview
Searching for a Book/eBook
Searching for a Journal/eJournal
Retrieving research articles with our offered Online Databases

Some examples (including remote access) were presented:
- PubMed (presentation)
- Web of Science: including citation searching (presentation)
- OneSearch: Simultaneous federated search and discovery tool (presentation)

Personal and Group Training Sessions

The Library's information specialists give personal and group training sessions, upon request, in various information retrieval and organizing topics such as database searching, citation searching, reference management software (EndNote, RefWorks), digital resources locating, and many other related topics.
In order to schedule a training session, please contact:
Pazia Gonen: Tel.3536, or
Yifat Belous: Tel. 3019.

Information-Providers' Seminars

Electronic information publishers and providers are occasionally invited, by the Library, to come to the Weizmann Institute and give training seminars on using their information products. All Weizmann personnel are welcome to attend these seminars. Invitations are sent by email.