Register for the spring 2025 Business Research Toolkit course to learn business research skills and discover no-cost online resources and subscription databases available through UAB Libraries. Available to all UAB students and employees, the asynchronous Canvas course is self-paced, enabling enrollees to fit it into any busy schedule. Registration is open now; the course runs Feb. 3-March 30.

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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.

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
• 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):

• Jan. 23, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to CINAHL
• April 16, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to CINAHL

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):

• Jan. 28, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to EndNote
• Feb. 20, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to EndNote
• March 20, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to EndNote
• April 9, 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):

• Feb. 11, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to PubMed
• March 19, noon-1 p.m. — Introduction to PubMed

Many university libraries suspend their Interlibrary Loan (ILL) services during the holidays, making it difficult for us to fill our patrons requests.

For that reason, UAB Libraries will suspend our ILL services for borrowing between Friday, December 20, 2024 at 5:00 pm and Wednesday, January 1, 2025.

During that time, new requests cannot be accepted, but previously requested materials may be picked up as usual, and previously requested photocopies will be e-mailed as usual.

Patrons may check the status of their requests at any time. Some requested materials may not arrive until after the new year.

We will resume normal ILL operations by mid-day on Thursday, January 2, 2025. Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

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