Open Workshops

Description: This workshop will introduce you to PubMed, the world’s premiere biomedical literature database.  We will review the content of this database, planning and executing a search strategy, narrowing search results, finding full-text, and exporting results to a citation management program.

Instructor(s):  Annie Colby-McKeon (she/her) is the Senior Library Assistant at Hirsh Library.

Please note that this workshop may be recorded at the discretion of the instructor.

Description: Learn why  Web of Science is worth adding to your search toolkit.  In addition to extensive coverage of the biomedical literature, Web of Science a fantastic way to look at journal impact, gain insight into how many times an article has been cited, and identify potential collaborators. 

Instructor(s):  Amy E. LaVertu (she/her) serves as the librarian liaison to the Friedman School of Nutrition, as well as the departments of Geographic Medicine & Infectious Disease, and Psychiatry at the Tufts Medical Center.

Please note that this workshop may be recorded at the discretion of the instructor.

Description: This session will introduce you to Zotero, a free citation management tool. Attendees will learn about and practice:

• Adding references to a Zotero library from websites, article databases, and PDFs
• Generating in-text citations and bibliographies in Word documents
• Setting up Zotero groups to share references with collaborators

While this session is for beginners--no previous experience required!--it's helpful for attendees to download and install Zotero in advance.

Instructor(s): Paige Scudder (she/her)  is Hirsh Library's Data and Educational Technology Librarian.

Please note that this workshop may be recorded at the discretion of the instructor.

Description: This one-hour session will introduce you to the basics of using the citation management program EndNote.   EndNote allows you to create a library of references, attach and read PDFs, and generate in-text citations and bibliographies in Word documents.  This session is for beginners - no previous experience required!

Instructor(s): Paige Scudder (she/her)  is Hirsh Library's Data and Educational Technology Librarian..

Please note that this workshop may be recorded at the discretion of the instructor.

Description: This workshop will provide guidance navigating the various copyright questions and decisions that come up during the capstone, thesis, or dissertation process regarding your rights and the rights of others. Whether you are including other people's content, such as adapting graphs or images, reusing some of your own work, or publishing all or part of your manuscript before or after submitting, there are copyright considerations that can seem challenging and daunting to address. We’re here to help!

Instructor(s):  Judy Rabinowitz is the Interlibrary Loan and Scholarly Communication Librarian at the Hirsh Health Sciences Library.  She is liaison to many divisions within Tufts Medical Center and is also your go-to librarian for guidance on reusing materials under copyright, publishing, author's rights, and obtaining materials from outside the Tufts Libraries collections.

Description: Come to this workshop to learn about systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and other types of high-level research reviews. We will discuss topics such as the elements of a systematic review, protocols, resources, timelines, and suggested databases.

Instructors: 

Allie Tatarian (they/them) is a data librarian, liaison for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and former biomedical researcher. Their experience as a researcher sparked an interest in scientific communication, particularly in the ways scientists communicate with each other (and their future selves). Contact them for help with search strategies, data management, or finding molecular biology tools.

Christina Heinrich is a Research & Instrution Librarian at Hirsh Health Sciences Library. She is the liaison librarian to pre-clerkship medicine.