» 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
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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 - This workshop offers best practices for accessing, storing, analyzing, preserving and sharing research data. Attendees will gain a basic understanding of the purpose and benefits of a Research Data Management Plan (DMP) and learn how effective data management practices can streamline lab workflows, prevent data loss, and support compliance with institutional and funder requirements.
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 Data Management and Sharing Policy - A Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Plan is required as part of the application process for NIH funding. This class will talk about what a data management and sharing plan is, break down the required elements of the NIH’s DMP format and walk you through designing and writing your own NIH-compliant DMS plan.
Understanding the NIH Public Access Policy - The NIH Public Access Policy requires all manuscripts connected to NIH funding be deposited into PubMed Central upon publication. This workshop will help authors understand their responsibilities regarding the NIH Public Access Policy and how to stay in compliance.
Using SciENcv to Create your BioSketch & Other Support Forms - The NIH requires PIs and Key Personnel use SciENcv to create their biosketches and Other Support forms when applying for grants and for annual reporting. This workshop will introduce you to SciENcv, show you how to create your BioSketch and Other Support Forms, and how to connect ORCID to SciENcv.
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)
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

