Classes & Events

The Bay Area Open Science Group is a growing community for Bay Area academics and researchers interested in incorporating open science into their research, teaching, and learning. Targeting students, faculty, and staff at UCSF, Berkeley, and Stanford, the goal of the community is to increase awareness of and engagement with ...

At Stanford, we have access to a remarkable array of research literature databases, many of which contain relevant content not included in PubMed. Unfortunately, it’s not always clear how to identify these alternate databases, much less craft effective strategies for searching them. This session is designed to help Stanford faculty, ...

Have you ever struggled to address the variety of feedback between the same cohort of peer reviewers? Are you curious to know how peer review might change with the rise of preprints? In honor of Peer Review Week 2023, join Lane Library in attending our panel session with editorial board ...

Covidence is a web-based systematic/scoping review production tool that helps you organize and streamline your review project. In this session, you will learn how to get started with Covidence: setting up your account, creating a new project, importing references, title/abstract screening, and full-text screening. Upon attending this session, you will understand how Covidence ...

Learn about Embase, a European biomedical literature database, and discover the secrets of effective literature searching in this workshop. Attendees will learn how to use controlled vocabulary (Emtree), field tags, and proximity operators to develop more sophisticated searches. Please note: This class will be held via Zoom and recorded. You will ...

Take a historical walking tour of the School of Medicine. The tour explores the school's history within the broader history of California medicine from the pre-colonial Ohlone period to the present, and highlights some of the architectural elements and art installations that reflect those histories. The tour begins at the ...

Your research data is important. In this session, we’ll discuss how to properly store, organize, and document your work to ensure that important data isn’t lost and that you are meeting expectations set by the parties that fund and publish your research. After this session, you’ll have the tools required ...

The Quick Start Research Toolkit is designed to rapidly orient Stanford students, staff, and faculty to key library resources, tools, and services. After attending this class you will be able to: Efficiently locate and use library materials and services Identify strategies for increasing the impact of your research Organize your citations/PDFs and generate ...

Join us for a practical 45-minute session on how to enhance your NIH Biosketch with metrics using the Dimensions platform. We will cover: the basics of different metrics, i.e. Relative Citation Ratio, Field Citation Ratio, and altmetrics how to use Dimensions to discover your metrics adding metrics to your Contributions to Science section to ...

The Bay Area Open Science Group is a growing community for Bay Area academics and researchers interested in incorporating open science into their research, teaching, and learning. Targeting students, faculty, and staff at UCSF, Berkeley, and Stanford, the goal of the community is to increase awareness of and engagement with ...

In this 50 minute presentation, you’ll learn about the differences between Systematic and Scoping Reviews. Both have become increasingly popular, but the rationale about when to choose one versus the other can be confusing. The presentation will also demonstrate how Lane’s Research & Instruction librarians can facilitate the development either ...

Are you interested in publishing Open Access, but don’t have the budget for the related fees? Attend a discussion with Dr. Joseph Ross to learn more about medRxiv, the predominant biomedical preprint server, and hear about the position and rise of preprints within the biomedical sciences. With PubMed now indexing preprints ...

Take a historical walking tour of the School of Medicine. The tour explores the school's history within the broader history of California medicine from the pre-colonial Ohlone period to the present, and highlights some of the architectural elements and art installations that reflect those histories. The tour begins at the ...

Starting in 2023, the National Institutes of Health will implement a new data management and sharing policy that will apply to the majority of NIH-funded research. The policy has two main elements: The inclusion of a data management plan- a short document that details how data will be managed and shared over ...

Researchers today confront an enormous and seemingly overwhelming flood of scientific literature, blogs, podcasts, and more. Fortunately, there are some excellent tools that can help you filter and organize the information that best matches your areas of interest. This workshop will provide a close look at: Powerful biology/medicine article recommendation databases ...

The Bay Area Open Science Group is a growing community for Bay Area academics and researchers interested in incorporating open science into their research, teaching, and learning. Targeting students, faculty, and staff at UCSF, Berkeley, and Stanford, the goal of the community is to increase awareness of and engagement with ...

Journal articles are the primary medium for scientific scholarly communication. Deciding which journal to submit your manuscript to can be a difficult process. There are several criteria to consider before you make the choice such as the aim, scope, and audience of the journal; journal quality and impact; visibility; open ...

Zotero is a free, open-source program for managing references. This half-hour workshop will go over the basics- including adding citations to your Zotero library, organizing your library, and quickly creating bibliographies and citations. To follow along, download Zotero and the Zotero Connector prior to the workshop. Please note: This class will ...

Take a historical walking tour of the School of Medicine. The tour explores the school's history within the broader history of California medicine from the pre-colonial Ohlone period to the present, and highlights some of the architectural elements and art installations that reflect those histories. The tour begins at the ...