Open Workshops

Description: The 2024 NIH Public Access Policy goes into effect six months earlier than expected on July 1, 2025!  This workshop will walk through the changes in policy final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds will need to follow and how the Hirsh Health Sciences Library can help support this compliance.

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.

RCR Credit:  Eligible attendees can receive credit (1 hr) in partial fulfillment of Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training requirements. In order to be eligible for RCR credit, during the workshop you must: display your full name (first and last), have your camera  turned on, and attend at least 50 minutes of the workshop. This workshop addresses subject area (J) responsible authorship and publication  

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): Rachel Partington (they/them) is Hirsh Library's Library Assistant Manager.

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

Description: Point-of-care tools, such as UpToDate and DynaMedex, are resources designed for clinicians to quickly look up information when they are with a patient. These tools provided summaries of evidence-based medicine and are curated/updated by health professionals. This session will provide an overview of the point-of-care tools currently available at the Hirsh Library. Attendees will learn about:

• How to access point-of-care tools available at the Hirsh Library
• Similarities and differences between the various point-of-care-tools 
• Setting up point-of-care tools for your mobile device

Instructor(s): 

Hannah Ellingson is a Research & Instruction Librarian and serves as the librarian liaison to dentistry.

Amy LaVertu is a Research & Instruction Librarian and serves as the librarian liaison to the Friedman School of Nutrition.

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