Classes & Events

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 ...

This interactive session will introduce you to Covidence, an online tool to accelerate and streamline the systematic review process. You will learn the advantages of using Covidence, recognize how it improves collaboration in evidence synthesis. You will also learn how to set up a project, invite team members, and work ...

This session introduces medical and scientific researchers to basic copyright issues, Creative Commons (CC) licensing, and fair use principles in an effort to learn how these issues apply to publishing in journals and data repositories. Participants will review the six CC licenses, from the most open (CC BY) to the ...

Would you build a house without plans? Would you navigate without a map? Many who start on the arduous and time-consuming task of writing a systematic review or one of the kindred publication types do exactly that! With a thorough, well-designed protocol you have the plan and map you need ...

This 60-minute session provides an introduction to different uses of research metrics, the importance of tracking the impact of research outputs, and responsible use of research metrics. Participants will learn strategies to identify high-impact journals, optimize their online research profiles, and increase citation rates. The session also covers tools for tracking ...

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 reference management tool that helps researchers collect, organize, annotate, and cite sources throughout the research and writing process. During this 75-minute interactive class,  participants will learn how to set up Zotero, use the Zotero Connector, save citations from databases and websites, attach and annotate PDFs, organize ...

This course equips healthcare researchers and professionals with the skills to navigate the evolving landscape of open science. Topics include NIH open science policies, grants supporting open-access publishing, strategies for identifying and selecting open-access journals, and managing and sharing data for compliance and impact. Through interactive discussions and hands-on exercises, ...

This 30-minute workshop introduces Consensus.app, an AI-powered search engine that scans peer-reviewed research to surface evidence-based answers and consensus ratings for clinical questions. Designed for researchers who need literature-backed evidence, the session demonstrates how Consensus differs from traditional database searching by synthesizing findings across studies rather than returning a simple ...