Some organizations in Boston provide computing basics workshops and courses.

AIDS Response Seacoast provides computer skills training workshops and other assistance to clients from Rockingham, Strafford (New Hampshire), and southern York (Maine) counties. Email learn@aidsresponse.org

Community Health Nexus provides computer skills training workshops and other assistance to communities of color in Boston.

Boston Living Center makes computer training available to its members.

Related Resources:

• Web-based learning tutorial: Finding HIV/AIDS Information on the Web

• The Glossary of HIV/AIDS-Related Terms 4th Edition (in PDF, Adobe Acrobat required).

• HIV/AIDS Consumer Health Information Guides from the National Library of Medicine.

• Introduction to MeSH Vocabulary (in PDF, Adobe Acrobat required).

• MEDLINEplus Basics brochure provides searching tips to NLM's Consumer Health Web site.

• MEDLINEplus Tour developed by the National Library of Medicine.

• PubMed Basics Brochure (in PDF, Adobe Acrobat required). This publication gives searching tips for PubMed.

• PubMed Training Manual from the National Library of Medicine, (in PDF, Adobe Acrobat required). The manuals have been broken down into sections so you can choose the areas of interest to you. For the Introduction to Web-based Searching: Using PubMed, NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.gov, download workbook sections 1, 2, and 4-6. For the entire manual Keeping Up With NLM's PubMed, the NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.gov, download workbook sections 3-6.

• PubMed Tutorial has been designed to work with Microsoft Internet Explorer® version 4+ and Netscape™ version 4+. It contains animated demonstrations of procedures, for which you will need the Macromedia Flash™ player. The Flash player can be downloaded and installed at no cost from Macromedia®. You may not be able to view the animated demonstrations if you are using another browser, such as Netscape version 6. For detailed documentation of the system requirements and known incompatibilities, please see the Tutorial FAQ.

• Search Engines

• Tutorial de PubMed Bienvenido al Tutorial de PubMed! Este tutorial ha sido diseñado para enseñarle el uso y navegación por todas las características de PubMed.