Join librarians from UAB Libraries’ Clinical, Academic and Research Engagement team to learn how to use four 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.
SimplyAnalytics
Explore demographic, business and geographic data with SimplyAnalytics. Though marketed as a business research tool, this platform can be used for research in any discipline that examines population data, including the social sciences and public health.
By the end of a workshop, you’ll be able to:
- Create a Simply Analytics project
- Identify information sources that meet your needs
- Create interactive maps and data comparison tables
Open workshops (all online):
- Sept. 18, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to Simply Analytics
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):
- Sept. 24, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to EndNote
- Oct. 17, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to EndNote
- Nov. 13, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to EndNote
- Dec. 5, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to EndNote
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
Open workshops (all online):
- Sept. 26, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to PubMed
- Dec. 3, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to PubMed
Completed the introductory workshop and want more training? Sign up for the advanced training to learn about automatic term mapping, medical subject headings and how to use field codes.
- Nov. 19, noon-1 p.m. — Advanced Searching in PubMed
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):
- Oct. 22, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to CINAHL