Representing Reference - Making the most of your database subscriptions: a SciFinder Scholar example

Electronic resources present libraries with many challenges. Among them are the challenges that can be viewed as obstacles to use by our patrons, obstacles such as registration before use, complicated search tools, required knowledge of research methods, and more. These obstacles make resources like Google seem even more attractive to the user looking for shortcuts. Ensuring a database’s use is especially important as costs for databases and content escalate and pressures on budgets grow. So how can libraries get the most out of such database investments? Especially costly resources, or resources that support accreditation of vital programs? Join Eric Zino as he hosts the first in our Representing Reference member program series. He will be joined by librarians from Rider University and an organic chemistry faculty member at Rider who have worked together to develop a series of tutorials for one such complex and vital e-resource: SciFinder Scholar. They’ll share with you about their inspiration, plan, and the results of their approach to the issue of getting the most out of a vital and complex e-resource.


Host: Eric Zino
Presenters: Librarians and faculty from Rider University

Date: Thursday April 25th, 2013
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

Seats available. For more information and to register, click here.