Library Training
The Library regularly promotes user training activities in the area of services and available resources, databases, bibliographic managers, deposit of scientific production and plagiarism. Check available session or ask for an appointment.
Course directors or unit professors, interested in disclosing a specific bibliographic database to students, may ask the Library to organise these sessions.
User Training
Initial training on library use (1st cycle)
To register, contact nsequeira@ualg.pt (Gambelas Campus) or smhorta@ualg.pt (Penha Campus)
Target audience: First cycle students, in class, to be scheduled with the class tutor
Training on library usage, bibliographic resources and search strategies (2nd and 3rd cycle)
To register, contact nsequeira@ualg.pt
Target audience: second and third cycle students, in class, to be scheduled with the class tutor
Electronic books and bibliographic bases: what is available at UAlg?
To register, contact nsequeira@ualg.pt
Target audience: Academic community in general
Library discover service: integrated bibliographic search
Integrated search bibliography system. How to search all the available resources, analyse results and filters.
To register, contact nsequeira@ualg.pt
Target audience: UAlg Academic community
Search for electronic bibliographic resources - some strategies
How to access electronic bibliographic resources, provided at UAlg, some search strategies and results analisis.
To register, contact nsequeira@ualg.pt
Target audience: Teaching staff, researchers and final-year students, second and third cycles
B-ON: Explore the bibliography search portal
Consorcium knowledge portal for all the Portuguese academic institutions.
To register, contact nsequeira@ualg.pt
Target audience: UAlg Academic community
WoS - Web of Science: how to use
Get to know the Web of Science platform; perform searches by topic with Boolean operators; filter and export results
To register, contact aimota@ualg.pt
Target audience: UAlg Academic community
Scopus: how to explore
Bibliographic database for abstracts and citations: how to search and analyse results and metrics.
To register, contact nsequeira@ualg.pt
Target audience: UAlg Academic community
Zotero - bibliography and PDF manager
Registration: epacheco@ualg.pt
Target audience: Academic community in general
UAlg's scientific production ecosystem: CIENCIAVITAE, SAPIENTIA E ORCID
Registration: epacheco@ualg.pt
Target audience: Teachers, researchers / depositors and / or mediators
How to assess the reliability of a scientific publication
Registration: epacheco@ualg.pt
Target audience: Teaching staff, researchers, authors of scientific articles
OURIGINAL - Plagiarism detection at UAlg
Registration: Temporarily suspended
Target audience: UAlg academic community