April showers bring…Workshops@Hirsh!!!!
Spring is busting out all over…and so are opportunities to learn! Workshops@Hirsh are designed to help your research skills blossom, so please join us for a workshop (or two or three) this month!
Workshops will be held on Tuesdays from 12noon-1pm via Zoom. Registration for workshops is required. A Zoom link and password will be sent to registrants one hour prior to the start time of the Workshop. Please note that workshops are open to only Tufts-affiliated individuals.
PubMed: An Introduction
Register: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/9041217?hs=a
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
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.
JumboSearch
Register: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/9041247?hs=a
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
In this workshop, you will learn how to use JumboSearch, Tufts Libraries’ discovery tool. JumboSearch is your gateway to full-text articles, books, theses and dissertations, videos, music, images, and more!
Documenting your literature search methods
Register: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/9041255?hs=a
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
There are many reasons to document your literature search methods, including:
- Some publication types require it (i.e., systematic and scoping reviews)
- Having a record for future search updates
- Transparency and increased understanding of one’s discovery process
This workshop will discuss the reasons why it is important document your literature search methods. It will also review how to draft a narrative description of one’s search methods, tools for documenting one’s search strategy and results, including PRISMA flowcharts.