Upcoming Training Opportunities: PubMed for Librarians

Posted by Hannah Sinemus on February 27th, 2019 Posted in: Education

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Join the National Network of Libraries of Medicine for our next round of PubMed for Librarians, and earn up to 7.5 MLA CE! Register for one or more sessions in this series of free webinars to learn about PubMed and enhance your searching skills. All classes are 90 minutes and include hands-on work.

PubMed for Librarians: Introduction to PubMed – March 26, 2019, 2:00-3:30 PM ET – Attend this session with NTO to learn about the difference between PubMed and MEDLINE, how to run a basic PubMed search, assess your search results, analyze search details, customize PubMed with My NCBI, search for a known citation; plus, brief introductions to MeSH, automatic term mapping, search tags and subheadings. Prior to the session: Create a My NCBI account, if you don’t already have one, so you can follow along.

PubMed for Librarians: MeSH – April 2, 2019, 2:00-3:30 PM ET – Attend this session with GMR to learn about the National Library of Medicine’s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) database. This class will talk about the 4 different types of MeSH terms, how searchers can benefit from using MeSH to build a search in PubMed, investigate the structure of the MeSH database, and look at the components of a MeSH record.

PubMed for Librarians: Automatic Term Mapping – April 9, 2019, 2:00-3:30 PM ET – Attend this session with SCR to learn about how PubMed uses Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) to map your keyword searches to the controlled vocabulary of the MeSH database. Learn how ATM allows you to effectively search PubMed with keywords. This class will also explore the explosion feature, what is and isn’t included in Search Details, and how to search for phrases in PubMed.

PubMed for Librarians: Building and Refining a Search – April 16, 2019, 2:00-3:30 PM ET – This session with NER will focus on using some of the tools and features built into PubMed that are designed to help you search more effectively. Attendees will learn how to coordinate MeSH terms the way Indexers do, explore the Index feature to build a search and explore topics, and look at the Filters Sidebar and Topic-Specific Queries.

PubMed for Librarians: Using Evidence-Based Search Features – April 23, 2019, 2:00-3:30 PM ET – This session with MAR will explore Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) used for indexing study design and how they work in PubMed, introduce 3 PubMed products that facilitate evidence based searching, and demonstrate how to customize My NCBI Filters to quickly locate specific publication types.

Explore other NNLM trainings for more opportunities to learn about NLM resources, get ideas for incorporating health into your programming, hear about NNLM-supported projects, and claim MLA CE!