Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News Category: Classes

Are you looking to sharpen your research, writing, or clinical skills? 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… 

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Tags: pubmed, endnote, copyright, scopus, systematic reviews

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-…

Categories: Classes

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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Categories: Classes

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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Tags: systematic reviews

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.

Categories: Classes

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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Categories: Classes

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.

Categories: Classes

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.

Categories: Classes

Tags: systematic reviews

How do you compare to researchers in your field? In this session, learn to define and find specific author, journal, and publication metrics. The pros and cons of relying on metrics, such as the H-index and Journal Impact Factor, will also be discussed. Tue. Aug. 6, 5-6p; ONLINE ONLY.  This class is FREE but registration is required.

Categories: Classes

Tags: for researchers

Ready to learn some new skills or approaches to your research? Check out our class schedule! We offer a variety of online classes related to database searching, systematic reviews, writing abstracts, publishing, citation management, research impact, and more. To find class details, dates, and registration information Click here. 

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Categories: Classes, Databases

Tags: publishing, pubmed, scopus, cinahl, endnote, zotero, abstracts, searching