NIH Library About Us Announcements NIH Library Classes: January - March 2013

NIH Library Classes: January - March 2013

Let the NIH Library help you improve your searching and reference management skills.

Classes are free, hands-on, open to NIH staff, and are held in the Training Room on the first floor of the NIH Library which is located near the south entrance of Building 10.

Registration is required for all classes. Click the course title at the bottom of the page (under Course Descriptions) to register.

If you are unable to attend a class, consider an individual tutorial. Please note that not all classes are available as a tutorial. Please contact the NIH Library Instruction Team if your desired class is not available. Request a tutorial today!

We look forward to seeing you!



January
10: 10 am – 12 pm​ EndNote: Managing Your Search Results
15: 10 am – 11:30 am​ PubMed: Understanding the Basics
23: 9 am – 11 am​ Copyright and Plagiarism: What NIH Authors Need to Know
24: 1:30 pm – 4 pm​ Gene Resources: From Transcription Factor Binding to Sites to Function
29: 10 am – 11:30 am​ EndNote Web: Using EndNote from Anywhere

February
6: 1:30 pm – 3 pm​ EndNote: Managing Your Search Results
7: 10 am – 12 pm​ Clinincal Trial & Evidence-Based Medicine Searching: Resources and Strategies
12: 10 am – 12 pm​ Undertaking a Systematic Review: What You Need to Know
12: 1:30 pm – 4 pm​ Genome Browsers
14: 1:30 pm – 3 pm​​ PubMed: Understanding the Basics
19: 10 am – 12 pm​ Scopus & Web of Science: Rich with Citations
26: 1 pm – 3 pm​ Web Search: Thinking Beyond Google

March
12: 1:30 pm – 4 pm​ Sequence Similarity Search: BLAST-Like Alignment Tool (BLAT)
13: 10 am – 12 pm​​ PubMed: Understanding the Basics
13: 1 pm – 3 pm​ EndNote: Managing Your Search Results
20: 1 pm – 2:30 pm​ Keeping Up with Public Health: Evidence-Based Public Health Information
21: 10 am – 11:30 am​ EndNote Web: Using EndNote from Anywhere



Course Descriptions:

Clinical Trial and Evidence-Based Medicine Searching
Clinical research protocols and systematic reviews require comprehensive literature searches to ensure patient safety, maximize research results, and meet standards for systematic reviews. Many databases available through the NIH Library and freely on the Web are critically important for identifying published and unpublished information on human clinical research and trial results. This class will cover major resources as well as several less well-known files and resources for grey literature.

Date(s):
Feb 7: 10 am - 12 pm

Copyright and Plagiarism: What NIH Authors Need to Know
NIH employees make presentations about their research as well as publish about it in journal articles, book chapters, or books. To enhance audience engagement, NIH authors often choose to use cartoons, illustrations, photographs, figures, and tables. In this class, you will learn how to reduce the risk of copyright infringement and plagiarism when using artwork or writing that is not your own.

Date(s):
Jan 23: 9 am - 11 am

EndNote: Managing Your Search Results
Use EndNote© to import and organize references, insert references in manuscripts, and create bibliographies.

Date(s):
Jan 10: 10 am – 12 pm
Feb 6: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Mar 13: 1 pm – 3 pm

EndNote Web: Using EndNote from Anywhere
EndNote Web is a web-based research and writing tool and a perfect complement to EndNote and Reference Manager. Add, transfer or import your references to EndNote Web and access your account via any web browser. Use Cite While You Write from EndNote Web to format your in-text citations and bibliography. If you do not have access to EndNote, than try EndNote Web - it is another great tool in your researcher toolbox!

Date(s):
Jan 29: 10 am – 11:30 am
Mar 21: 10 am – 11:30 am


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Gene Resources: From Transcription Factor Binding Sites to Function
This course describes how to obtain information about a human gene at all levels of the central dogma of life, genome, transcript and protein, and transcription factors regulating its expression. It also covers information about single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the gene and which ones are known to be associated with disease.

Date(s):
Jan 24: 1:30 pm – 4 pm

Genome Browsers
This course describes how to use different publicly available genome browsers such as UCSC genome browser, MapViewer and Ensembl. Used to view the assembly of the complete human genome, these browsers are valuable tools to identify and localize genes and to obtain information about them. This course will demonstrate how to view different human genome maps/tracks and make best use of them.

Date(s):
Feb 12: 1:30 pm – 4 pm

Keeping Up with Public Health: Evidence-Based Resources in Public Health
It is important in decision making, policy development and the establishment of new programs to improve public health that these initiatives be supported by scientific evidence. This class will introduce students who are involved in public health initiatives to the concept of evidence based public health and will explore selected resources that provide evidence based information and present techniques for searching and finding research to support best evidence in the field of public health.

Date(s):
Mar 20: 1 pm – 2:30 pm

PubMed: Understanding the Basics
Use PubMed to find articles on your research topic in biomedical and scientific journals. PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine and preclinical sciences, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and the health care system. It includes journal article citations and abstracts from MEDLINE and other sources. Many of the citations lead to full-text articles available online through NIH Library subscription agreements.

Date(s):
Jan 15: 10 am – 11:30 am
Feb 14: 1:30 pm – 3 pm
Mar 13: 10 am – 12 pm


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Scopus & Web of Science: Rich with Citations
Stresses the capabilities and features of each product. Much of the utility of these products is in the eye of the beholder and will satisfy different information requirements to different degrees. Learn how to use both databases to search for articles and how to use both to track citations and analyze research.

Date(s):
Feb 19: 10 am – 12 pm

​Sequence Similarity Search: BLAST-Like Alignment Tool (BLAT)
The BLAST-Like Alignment Tool (BLAT) is used to find genomic sequences that match a protein or DNA sequence. BLAT search results can be viewed on the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genome Browser. This course demonstrates how to use BLAT to map a cDNA/mRNA sequence to a genome to identify exon-intron locations in the genomic sequence and a protein sequence to a genome to search for gene family members in the genome. It also demonstrates how to visualize the alignment in the UCSC genome browser and compare the results to a similar search done using NCBI’s BLAST.

Date(s):
Mar 12: 1:30 pm – 4 pm

Undertaking a Systematic Review: What You Need to Know
Learn what you need to know and do to conduct and Publish a high-quality systematic review.

Date(s):
Feb 12: 10 am – 12 pm

Web Search: Thinking Beyond Google
Go beyond the standard Web search tools and learn to search more efficiently; access the invisible web; evaluate websites; use image and non-text search engines; search for scholarly information, news, people, and blogs; and customize your search results.

Date(s):
Feb 26: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm


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