Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News Category: Classes

We offer a variety of free online classes to help you get ahead. Taking a library class can significantly improve your research skills, helping you master advanced database searching and use tools that streamline your workflow. You'll also enhance your writing by efficiently managing citations and references, allowing you to focus more on your content. For those in clinical fields, these classes offer valuable insights into staying up-to-date with evidence-based resources, ultimately helping you locate the best clinical literature. Plus, our expert librarians are available to offer tailored support and guidance during each session. 

Here’s a glimpse of the upcoming classes you can sign up for by topic… 

📚 Publishing: We offer classes such as Understanding…

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Curious about how artificial intelligence can support your research or help troubleshoot technical challenges? The Medical Center Library is excited to offer two sessions designed specifically for faculty, students and staff. These classes emphasize the responsible and ethical use of AI tools with practical strategies you can apply right away. Check out the descriptions below:

📚 AI Tools for Research Queries & Literature Searches: Discover how AI can enhance your research endeavors and literature reviews. This session introduces Copilot and Elicit—two powerful tools that can help you craft better queries and generate insights. We’ll also discuss how to create effective prompts as well as ethical considerations to ensure your use of AI aligns with academic integrity and…

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Explore the landscape of open access publishing in the sciences from its historical roots to today's funding models and challenges. Register for one or all three Zoom workshops in this three-part series!

OA in the Sciences Workshop #1 Navigating Open Access Scholarly Publishing in 2025 
Thursday, October 2, 2025 
3:30pm – 4:30pm 
This workshop empowers graduate students and faculty to navigate OA options with confidence, understand article processing charges (APCs), and make informed choices about where and how to publish their work.

OA in the Sciences Workshop #2 U.S. Federal Public Access Policies,…

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📚 Need Help with NIH Compliance or SciENcv? Register for Office Hours! 

Do you have questions about NIH Public Access compliance, SciENcv, or managing your scholarly profiles? You're not alone—and we're here to help!

Our NIH PAP, SciENcv, & Researcher Profiles Office Hours are informal, online sessions where you can meet one-on-one with a librarian to get support tailored to your needs. Whether you're:

• preparing for the NIH Public Access Policy changes coming July 1, 2025,
• submitting an article to NIHMS,
• building your Biographical Sketch in SciENcv, or
• connecting systems like ORCID, MyNCBI, and your profile in …

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Tags: NIH Public Access Policy, NIHMS, SciENcv, scholarly communication

Wednesday, April 30, 2025  |  Noon - 1:00pm  |  Online

Enhance your research capabilities by learning the most effective ways to use AI with a focus on literature searches and research queries. This hour long session will delve into the ethical considerations of using AI in research, provide guidance on creating effective prompts, and demonstrate the practical applications of two advanced AI tools, Copilot and Elicit. Don't miss this opportunity to expand your research toolkit with cutting-edge AI technology. 

Join our wonderful librarian instructors online as they help you to understand the ethical challenges associated with the use of AI tools for research, create effective prompts, and learn how to utilize two different AI tools for your research.

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Are you planning a systematic review?  Data extraction can be the most time-consuming steps of a review, but you can set up your team to be more successful by devising your data extraction strategy at the start of your project.

There are two resources available to you and your team to learn more about the data extraction process and help you plan your project and your protocol.

Covidence, a systematic review software tool that Duke subscribes to, has released an eBook titled "A Practical Guide: Data Extraction for Intervention Systematic Reviews." You can use this link to download your FREE copy.

This tool-…

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Tags: systematic reviews, data

Ready to boost your research skills? The Medical Library offers a variety of online classes tailored to healthcare professionals, researchers, and students. 

Sessions include:

• Searching Databases with Confidence: Master PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, or Scopus 
• Conducting Systematic Reviews: Learn more about conducting systematic reviews or how to assess and extract data
• Reference Management Made Easy: Get started with EndNote or Zotero. 
• Selecting Journals for Publication
• Tools for Researchers: Building Your Profile, Measuring your Impact
• Understanding Copyright
• Data Management: Sharing, Requirements, & Repositories 

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Tags: pubmed, zotero, endnote, cinahl, scopus, systematic reviews

This follow-up class to "Systematic Reviews: Practical Steps for Getting Started" provides greater details for quality assessment and data collection to help you in your tasks for successful project completion and publication. Participants will learn about risk of bias (RoB), clyritical appraisal, data extraction in evidence synthesis, and more. Thu. Aug. 22; 3-4p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.

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When you search PubMed (or most databases), did you know you’re only searching the titles, abstracts, and keywords/subject headings? That’s why it’s so important that you write an effective, concise, and clear abstract! In this session, learn how to refine your abstract writing skills to help users find your paper. Tue. Aug. 20; 1-2p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.

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Tags: writing

Learn how to create an EndNote Library, set up preferences, add citations/PDFs, and more. Tue. Aug. 20; 12-1p; ONLINE ONLY. This  class is FREE but registration is required.

Prerequisite: Prior to the session, please download EndNote for Windows or Mac through Duke's Office of Information Technology.

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Tags: endnote, citation management

Zotero helps you insert references into your text as well as create a reference list at the end of your paper in a variety of styles. Working together with Word and Google Docs, this open program is free up to 300 MB of storage.

This class will show you the basics of getting started in Zotero including adding references to your Zotero library, creating collections, and mastering tools to cite sources in your research papers. It will also explore advanced features such as collaboration, synchronization, and integration with word processors. Thu. Aug. 15; 4-5p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.

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Tags: zotero, citation management

If you work with clinical trial data and you're looking for a controlled access repository for your data, check out Vivli.  This clinical data repository is supported by both Duke and NIH. Thu. Aug 15; 11a-12p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.

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Tags: vivli, data management, data repository

Want to search for relevant citations in the shortest amount of time? This class will show you how to effectively use MeSH, keywords, Boolean operators, filters, options with MyNCBI, & more! Wed. Aug. 14; 12-1p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.

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Tags: pubmed

If you're interested in conducting a systematic review, this class will provide an overview of the components, tools, and resources that you'll need to get started. Learn how our librarians can assist in enrolling your "participants" — the literature! — into your study, as well as tools to make your screening and data abstraction easier.  Thu. Aug. 8; 3-4p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.

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Tags: systematic reviews