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Engineering Village offers several training resources at its Support Center website. There are six downloadable powerpoint presentations:
- Searching Compendex on Engineering Village
- Using RSS and Blog this! on Engineering Village
- Faceted Searching and Browsing on Engineering Village
- Patents searching on Engineering Village
- Inspec on Engineering Village
- NTIS on Engineering Village

In addition, there are quick reference guides (pdf) for Engineering Village, Compendex and Inspec available at the same webpage, and an Engineering Vilage simulation / demo.

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This workshop introduces three important tools for molecular structure viewing and searching: Scifinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts Service), Crossfire Commander for Beilstein / Gmelin (MDL), and Entrez Structure / Cn3D (National Center for Biotechnology Information).

Thursday, October 26, 2006, 11:00 - 12:00 noon, Cabell Library 3rd floor instruction classroom
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Journal table of contents, science news, and search results from some databases can be automically monitored using two technology-based techniques, RSS and e-mail alerts. This introductory workshop demonstrates how to do this.

Thursday, September 7, 11 - 11:50 am, Cabell Library 3rd floor instruction classroom
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Cabell Library is sponsoring a Patent Searching workshop on Friday, August 18, 9 - 12:30, in the 3rd floor library instruction classroom. Trainers will be Tom Turner and Chris Black, who are both librarians with the Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This introductory workshop is open to VCU librarians and faculty. It is free, and pre-registration is required (contact Renée Bosman at rbosman@vcu.edu or 828-1101).

This workshop will provide hands-on training with free, publicly available databases on the USPTO website, including the PatFT and AppFT databases for issued patent and patent application searches. Training will be at the beginners level and will include a general introduction to concepts in intellectual property protection.

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