New offer of online self-training courses for the entire UAB university community

For the 2026-27 academic year, the UAB Libraries offer you the following self-training courses through the Virtual Campus: https://cv.uab.cat/ :

Get to know your Library: Are you curious about what the libraries have to offer? Join the 'Escape Room: Save the Library' course, featuring 9 missions, tests, and riddles that will help you discover all the services and resources available in an engaging way.

• Estimated dedication: 1 hour. 
• Language: catalan.
• Registration: through the Virtual Campus (https://cv.uab.cat/ ), on the tab: Self-enrolment classrooms. https://cv.uab.cat/protected/inscripcions.jsp   

Tools and resources offered by the Libraries for your academic work: The aim is to equip you with the necessary knowledge and tools to effectively select, evaluate, and use information for your academic tasks. You’ll find recommendations on how to search for information, key sources, tools for organising and citing bibliographic references, tips for assessing the quality of information, and other valuable resources.

• Estimated dedication: 8 hours.
• Language: Catalan, Spanish or English.
• Registration: through the Virtual Campus (https://cv.uab.cat/ ), on the tab: Self-enrolment classrooms. https://cv.uab.cat/protected/inscripcions.jsp 

Web of Science and Scopus: this course shows how to use Web of Science and Scopus and get the most out of it for research and study. Both resources are multidisciplinary databases that allow thematic searches and bibliometric indicators to be consulted. Currently they are two of the most important bibliographic and bibliometric information resources.

• Estimated dedication: 2 hours.
• Language: Catalan.
• Registration: through the Virtual Campus (https://cv.uab.cat/ ), on the tab: Self-enrolment classrooms. https://cv.uab.cat/protected/inscripcions.jsp 

Zotero: the objective of this course is for you to learn the operation and basic features of the Zotero bibliographic manager so that you can create your personal library and prepare citations and bibliography for your work automatically.

• Estimated dedication: 4.30 hours.
• Language: Catalan, Spanish or English.
• Registration: through the Virtual Campus (https://cv.uab.cat/ ), on the tab: Self-enrolment classrooms. https://cv.uab.cat/protected/inscripcions.jsp  

We will soon open self-enrolment classrooms for online courses on the PubMed database.