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