The NYU Health Sciences Libraries offer a variety of scheduled classes; for specific dates, see the calendar of upcoming events. Librarians are also available to teach one-on-one or for small groups. Please contact us with details about your training needs.
CINAHL includes citations to English-language nursing journals, publications of the American Nurse's Association, the National League for nursing, and primary journals in allied disciplines such as cardiopulmonary technology, emergency services, health education, med/lab technology, medical assistance, medical records, occupational therapy, physical therapy, radiology technology, respiratory therapy, social science, surgical technology, and the physician's assistant.
EMBASE is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals. Some of its major subject strengths include drugs, alternative medicine, psychiatry, forensics, orthopedics, and European publications that complement MEDLINE. No comprehensive search of the biomedical literature is complete without an EMBASE search!
Tired of spending countless hours typing cumbersome bibliographic reference lists? Would you like to download MEDLINE records directly into your database? Find it difficult to remember countless journal style formats? EndNote provides the answer to these and other "publication" problems. Get hands-on experience downloading citations from databases and transferring them into an EndNote database. Learn how to manage all types of citations, as well as retrieving and sorting, generating and formatting bibliographies in a number of publisher styles. Note: This class assumes that you know how to search the literature. Please take a database searching class prior to this class.
This class offers students and health care professionals practical methods to search the literature for evidence in support of clinical decision making. Participants will learn how to frame questions appropriate for a literature search, differentiate questions into categories that suggest the best resources to access, select search terminology, develop strategies, and choose applicable search filters. Participants will conduct an evidence-based search with MEDLINE and also search important evidence-based resources available from the NYU Health Sciences Libraries.
NOTE: This intermediate level class requires participants to have basic search skills. If you have not already done so, please consider taking one of our database searching classes before signing up.
Learn the basics of GIS, including opening and creating maps, adding and working with shapefiles, and using GIS in health organizations.
Locating funding for research is critical to a medical and/or academic institution. Understanding the funding process and the types of research being funded is essential for success, as is successfully searching available resources. Taught jointly by the library and the Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA), this class will help you navigate the grants process and use grants resources effectively to locate funding opportunities in support of your research. Participants must have a valid NYULMC email ID or NetID and password.
There is always something new going on at the library! This class is designed to help you get in the know and stay up to date using the library and the many library resources available to you both onsite and remotely. Discover resources you never knew we had and learn time-saving tips for finding what you need, when you need it. You will also learn about the many services offered from document delivery to laptop reservations and more.
This course will cover bibliographic metrics such as impact factor and h-index; how these metrics are applied; what tools are available at NYU for bibliometrics, including Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, and the NYU Faculty Bibliography; and how you can ensure that your research is being evaluated accurately.
MEDLINE is the primary source for information from the biomedical journal literature with over 12 million references. Over 4,300 selected journals from 1966 to date are covered. The class will focus on: basic searching using Medical Subject Headings; Explode, Focus and Limit Commands; combine sets using the AND/NOT commands; how to apply limits and filters to refine your search for age groups, trials and other categories; linking to full text articles from Ovid and what to do if they are not there.
Learn the basics of using the National Library of Medicine’s premier database, MEDLINE via PubMed. Over 15 million citations are included, dating back to the 1950s. All of the basics of searching will be covered: using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), keyword searching, setting limits, “building block” searching, text and e-mail output, and more.
In this half-hour session, you will get a tour of the new Health Sciences Libraries Web site, showing you where to find familiar information and how to use new features, like searching PubMed right from the homepage and browsing journal tables of contents with RSS. We will also look briefly at finding books in HSLCat, the new library catalog.
The open lab allows users to drop in for live, personalized help; no sign-up is required. Librarians with expertise in technology and library resources will be available to provide help with database searches, mobile devices, bibliographic management tools, RSS feeds and tables of contents, etc.
Learn how to work with this Web-based application for managing your research. Enter citations as you work, import references retrieved from online bibliographic databases into your RefWorks database and create bibliographies in a variety of formats using Microsoft Word or WordPerfect. There is no software to load. RefWorks is completely free to NYU community members.
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