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 ...

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 60-minute class will introduce participants to an array of AI tools that can enhance and streamline research workflows. Use cases will focus on the following topics: Writing assistance Brainstorming Literature searching Medical reference Plagiarism detection Text-to-speech, article summaries Image generation Tools will include ChatGPT, Elicit, ResearchRabbit, Stanford Secure GPT, Proofig, and more. Please note: This class will ...

This 90-minute session provides a practical overview of NIH compliance workflows across publications, data sharing, and grant-related forms. Participants will learn how to use My NCBI and My Bibliography to track compliance, connect grants to publications, distinguish publisher and author NIHMS submission routes, and respond to updated NIH public access requirements, ...

Systematic reviews are a cornerstone of evidence-based medicine, designed to synthesize research findings using transparent, reproducible, and rigorous methods. This session introduces the foundational principles of systematic reviews, with an emphasis on what it takes to produce a high-quality, publication-ready evidence synthesis project. Participants will explore the major steps of the ...