Join librarians from UAB Libraries’ Clinical, Academic and Research Engagement team to learn how to use three key tools available at no cost to faculty, staff and student researchers
Curious what else is available to bolster your research skills? Researchers also can access nearly 650 more research tools and information databases online at no cost through UAB Libraries.
PubMed
PubMed is one of the most robust medical literature databases, comprising more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books.
By the end of a workshop, you’ll be able to:
- Build a basic search by developing search concepts
- Use Boolean Operators to connect search concepts
- Use Automatic Term Mapping in a search (Advanced course)
- Utilize Medical Subject Headings (Advanced course)
- Use Field Codes in a search (Advanced course)
Open workshops (all online):
- May 15, noon-1 p.m. — Advanced Searching in PubMed
- June 16, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to PubMed
- Aug. 7, noon-1 p.m. - Advanced Searching in PubMed
EndNote
EndNote is a bibliographic management platform designed to help users collect citations in one place and update them easily and quickly from one style to another.
By the end of a workshop, you’ll be able to:
- Create and organize a library of citations
- Send citations from various databases to EndNote
- Use EndNote to find PDFs of your citations
- Insert and edit EndNote citations in a Word document
Open workshops (all online):
- May 20, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to EndNote
- June 18, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to EndNote
- July 22, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to EndNote
- Aug. 12, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to EndNote
CINAHL
CINAHL is an index of English-language and selected other-language journal articles about nursing, allied health, biomedicine and health care.
By the end of a workshop, you’ll be able to:
- Build a basic search by developing search concepts
- Use Boolean Operators to connect search concepts
Open workshops (all online):
- July 10, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to CINAHL