» View the class scheduleRuth Lilly Medical Librarians teach a variety of customized classes based on the needs of IUSM students, faculty, or staff.
Custom Library Classes
» Request a classFaculty may also contact their department liaison about developing a library class tailored to a specialty, curriculum, or research assignment.
Class Descriptions
Basics of Endnote - Get started using EndNote to manage your citations in one location. Learn to import citations, add PDFs to references, and “Cite While You Write”.
Advanced Endnote - Learn ways to optimize your EndNote library with useful customization. (For people familiar with EndNote or who have taken our Basics of EndNote workshop previously)
For Beginner users: Zotero for Citation Management - Learn the basics of using Zotero to automate saving articles, book chapters and more for research.
For Advanced users: Zotero for Citation Management - Designed for users who already are using Zotero, this session will explore features to enhance your research and collaboration capabilities.
Basics of Research Data Management - Gain a basic understanding of the purpose and benefits of a Research Data Management Plan (DMP) and other internal structures (for researchers at any level)
Introduction to LabArchives Notebook for Researchers - An introduction to the benefits of using LabArchives Notebook to streamline data collection, storage, and manage permissions within research data.
Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) - Introduces evidence-based medicine concepts and resources.
Health information for Your Patients - Teaches healthcare providers how to find consumer health information (resources created to help the public understand health conditions).
Library Resources for Applying for & Managing Grants - Learn how you can use library resources and services to successfully apply for and manage grants.
PubMed Searching in 30 Minutes - Learn quick tips to locate articles in PubMed in a 30 minute class.
Maximize Your Literature Search in PubMed - Provides tips and tricks to find high levels of evidence efficiently in PubMed.
NIH Final Data Management and Sharing Policy: An Introduction - Learn the history of the NIH’s DMS Plan, understand the six required elements of the NIH’s DMS Plan with examples of each, and identify how these elements map to IU’s DMS Plan FireForm submission system.
NIH Final Data Management and Sharing Policy: Hands-on Practice - Using an example research project at IU, learn a workflow for using existing institutional resources to design and write an NIH-compliant Data Management & Sharing (DMS) Plan.
5-Day Research Impact Challenge: Research Impact Tools and Metrics - Get hands on practice with specific citation metrics tools and indicators in this advanced 5-day asynchronous workshop.
5-Day Research Impact challenge: Scholarly Online Presence - Get hands-on practice on tools and platforms to enhance the impact and visibility of your research.
Altmetrics for P&T: Alternative Indicators of Scholarly Impact - Gain hands-on practice on tools and platforms to gather and track alternative metrics (altmetrics) for scholarly outputs.
Determining Your Research Impact - Learn various metrics such as impact factors, Eigen factors, the Becker Model, H-Indices, etc.
Tips for Leveraging your ORCiD - Learn how to leverage your ORCiD to work smarter, not harder by automatically populating your ORCiD profiles with your publications and other scholarly works.
Tracking and Measuring Your Research Impact: Author-level Metrics - Focus on specific author-level metrics for tracking and measuring research impact.
Steps to Publishing Scholarly Work - Clarifies the steps from research approval to scholarly product (presentations, posters, publications) and introduces you to resources to support those steps. (Intended for anyone from undergraduate medical students to junior faculty)
Your article’s accepted… Now what? NIH Compliance, Scholarly Presence, and more! - Set yourself up for success after article acceptance to ensure funding compliance and other benefits.
Introduction to Systematic Reviews - Introduces the process of conducting systematic reviews of the literature which are reproducible evidence synthesis.
What Goes Into an Exhaustive Systematic Review Search? - Focuses on the exhaustive searching methodology involved when conducting a systematic review. (a follow-up to the Introduction to Systematic Reviews class)
Point of Care (Mobile) Resources - Provides information on what point-of-care mobile resources are available through the library, how to install and register them, and some basic instructions on using them. » View the guide
The Basics of 3D Printing - Learn the basics of 3D printing, current/future applications of 3D printing in medicine, and how students can benefit from the Nexus 3D Print services in their schoolwork and research. (Intended for students at IUSM) » View the guide