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On 22 July 2020, an online training for SAE Mobilus (SAE Scholarly Journal) was held via Microsoft Teams Applications. The training was conducted by Ms. Shitong Xing from SAE.

The objective of the training is to help students and researchers understand and explore the SAE Mobilus. The SAE Mobilus is an applications design to help users with their academic writing and research. Some of the content from the training include:

1. SAE International

• SAE as Society & SDO

• SAE Services

• SAE Standard Committees

2. SAE Mobilus

• SAE Platform on Mobillus

This training was attended by 36 participants consisted of academician, undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is hoped that this training can increase the use of SAE Mobilus and at the same time will help users to improve the quality of their academic writing.

Written by: 

Pn. Affida Abu Bakar, Senior Librarian Education & Research Section

Edited by;

Cik Ratna Wilis Haryati Mustapa, Super Senior Library Assistant

8th July 2020, UMP Library and Springer Nature had co-organized an online training via GoToMeeting application. The SpringerLink Online Training was conducted by Mr. Kent Yeap Hong, Licensing Manager of Sprinter Nature.

Throughout the training, participants are able to understand simple search method or use boolean operator for quicker and precise search in its database. Searching skills with the right tools are important for students especially with the new norm in practice.

A Q&A session done at the end of the training shows that the participants knew the importance of a solid and reliable source of information. Having SpringerLink database accessible for research and reference would certainly benefit all.

Written by: 

Cik Sharifah Nazirah binti Syed Omar, Librarian Education & Research Section

Edited by;

Cik Ratna Wilis Haryati Mustapa, Super Senior Library Assistant

UMP Library – 6 July 2020, A Mendeley module training was conducted by Puan Affida Abu Bakar and En. Muhammad Fawwaz Rasid from the Education & Research Section via Zoom application. The objectives of these training is to help students understand and use the Mendelay reference management software for their assignments and project papers.

Early at the training, the participants were taught on how to install Mendelay, add documents to Mendelay and how to use the various citation styles available in Mendelay such as APA, MLA and  IEEE. The session with 85 participants was very focused and they actively took part with most of the training session.

It was a successful collaboration with Puan Haslinda @ Robita Binti Hashim from Center for Human Sciences. Hopefully, these sessions will encourage the users to explore and use all the facilities and services provided by the library.

Written by: 

En. Muhammed Fawwaz B. Abdul Rasid, Librarian Education & Research Section

Edited by;

Cik Ratna Wilis Haryati Mustapa, Super Senior Library Assistant