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Scheduled Classes
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| How PubMed Works: Introduction | March 18, 2025 | This 90-minute introduction session provides overviews about: What PubMed is and what's in it. Finding the original research that is the basis for a news article. Finding articles by a specific author. Searching for articles on a specific subject. Narrowing search results to a more specific subset Exploring the Advanced Search Builder and Search History. Platform/Location: Zoom |
| How PubMed Works: Selection | March 20, 2025 | This 90-minute class covers issues and concerns surrounding the current publishing landscape; the selection criteria for the different components of the PubMed database and NLM responsibilities and practices in collecting and providing access to the biomedical literature. MEDLINE and PMC staff will be available to answer audience questions.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| How PubMed Works: MeSH | March 25, 2025 | This 90-minute MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) class explores the vocabulary underlying the PubMed database.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| How PubMed Works: ATM | March 27, 2025 | This 90-minute class about PubMed's Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) takes an in-depth look at the contents of the 3 translation tables used to process and map your search terms.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
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On-Demand Classes
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Research Data Management | On-demand through April 30, 2026 | An introduction to research data management (RDM) for librarians, including best practices for supporting researchers and the elements most important to document, store, and preserve data.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Research Data Sharing | On-demand through April 30, 2026 | Get an overview of the data sharing process and best practices for sharing research data.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Standardize Your Research Data with the NIH Common Data Element Repository – On Demand | On-demand through June 17, 2025 | This interactive, on-demand course is intended to introduce researchers and librarians to common data elements (CDEs) and how to use the NIH Common Data Element Repository.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Supporting Open Science: Tools and Trends | On-demand through April 30, 2026 | Explore the concept of "open science" and ways to practice reusability and reproducibility in research through free tools from the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Topic Searching in PubMed®: Using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) | On-demand through April 4, 2025 | Learn how to use the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) for expert PubMed searching in this hands-on, self-paced course.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice - On Demand | On-demand through June 13, 2025 | When conducting research, evidence-based practice is a method for framing clinical questions that will help yield optimal search results. PubMed.gov is a free research tool from the National Library of Medicine®. This one-hour, online course will show you how to use evidence-based practice when searching clinical questions using PubMed®.
Platform/Location: Moodle |