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Need answers immediately? You can locate high quality evidence to support your research, practice, and course work quickly and easily. How? By learning to use these Evidence-Based Medicine Resources offered by the Library:

• ACP PIER
• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• DynaMed
• UpToDate

Need funding? Community of Science (COS) is the largest database of grants, fellowships, and awards from around the world. This 60-minute class will cover the basics of using COS. After the class, there will be an optional 30-minute practice session offering individual assistance. This class will teach you how to

• Search for funding opportunities that fit your needs
• Set up personalized e-mail alerts to notify you of new funding opportunities
• Create a COS profile to promote yourself and your research

Find the most appropriate journal articles for patient care or basic research. This 60-minute class will cover Ovid MEDLINE essentials. After the class, there will be an optional 30-minute practice session offering individual assistance. Take advantage of Ovid’s user-friendly interface and learn how to:

• Use Medical Subject Headings, subheadings, and keywords as needed.
• Apply Limit options to focus retrieval to age groups, types of studies, or specific animals
• Save, print, or email citations and access full text articles.
• Save a permanent search strategy or set up a monthly alert on your topic.

Have bench to bedside informational needs? Connect to your Library’s quality biomedical resources and services through the Library’s Home Page. Navigate to the resources which match your research, clinical, and support interests:

• Electronic journals and books
• On-line databases and subject guides
• Library services
• Expert reference, education and liaison librarians
• Set up access from your home or office

Writing an article, dissertation, or grant? Compile, organize and integrate citations into WORD without stress. This class is a hands-on introduction to the “how to” of these time and labor-saving EndNote features:

• Downloading or importing citation information from online databases
• Built-in full-text file (.pdf) download function
• Custom groups for organizing your EndNote library citations
• Flexible re-formatting of bibliographies to meet required journal/editorial guidelines

Take the stress out of database searching and get the results you want with this hands-on, interactive course in clarifying and focusing your PubMed searches. Learn how to use Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and expert searching strategies to open up over 16 million references in more than 5,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE. The class includes an optional half-hour session to work on your specific project with instructor guidance and feedback

In what ways are health and human rights related? Is health care a right or a commodity? How do health policies and practices impact human rights? What are the health effects of human rights violations? What are the links between the promotion and protection of health and the promotion and protection of human rights? Explore these and other issues in this thought-provoking session. Brown bag lunch okay; drinks provided. Instructor: Patti Pagels, MPAS. Host: David Markham, M.D.

Reaxys is a web-based “one-dashboard” interface for three prestigious chemical information databases: CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin, and Patent Chemistry Database (PCD) . It allows searching by substances: fully searchable chemical structures; by reactions: fully searchable single and multi-step reactions; and by citations: indexed from the primary organic, inorganic and organomatellic chemistry journal literature going back to 1772 and patent literature. Receive basic training in this new workflow solution for research chemists and scientists from related disciplines. Instructor: Lee Smith, Ph.D., Reaxys Trainer

Learn how to create a Web page of your own! This hands-on class will cover the basics of Web publishing and design using HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), with illustrations in Adobe Dreamweaver 8. Instructors: Joseph Tan, M.S., and Cameron Kainerstorfer.

Researchers are familiar with SciFinder as a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases. This workshop will highlight the new capabilities of the web-based SciFinder, such as how to create email alerts by topic as well as by journal; how to identify if a molecule (particular structure drawn) has biological activity or is part of the structure of a natural product; and how to locate spectral and physical data. Access to SciFinder at UT Southwestern is changing; by the end of the year, all access will be web-based. Bring your questions! Instructor: Marie Sparks, SciFinder Trainer. Host: J.R. Falck, Ph.D.

Learn to create attractive, informative, and powerful posters using the right software tools and dynamic design principles. Instructor: Claudia DeShay, Ph.D.

Social media resources can help you connect and collaborate with other professionals in your area, organize article PDFs and Web site links, and stay current on popular articles and topics. This class will cover social bookmarking and networking sites specifically for biomedical professionals, including CiteULike, 2collab, Sermo, ResearchGATE, and more. Instructor: Tracey Minzenmayer, Ph.D.