While interlibrary loan has been a core service for health science libraries for decades, changes in policies, software, and workflows are accelerating. This webinar (11 am-12 pm ET on March 11) explains the basics while focusing on the issues and changes confronting libraries.
This interactive tutorial introduces phrase searching in PubMed, explaining PubMed’s default behavior, troubleshooting what to do with no or irrelevant results, and exploring techniques such as alternative spellings or word proximity for finding the results you want.
This online on-demand class from the National Library of Medicine introduces PubMed's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), defining controlled vocabulary, exploring the four types of MeSH terms, and explaining various features of the MeSH database.
This 4-hour on-demand class provides an overview of open science — focusing on the 5 R's of open research: Repeatability, Replicability, Reproducibility, Reusability, and Readability — and introduces tools for conducting and supporting open research. Available through April 30.
Librarians are vital research partners, argues Dance, improving literature reviews, helping with data management and open-science compliance, and offering expert guidance on AI. And librarianship can be an attractive career for scientists too!
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Columbia has now launched GrantForward, a search-and-recommendation platform for faculty, researchers, students, and administrators to find research grants and other sources of funding. GrantForward will fully replace Pivot after June 30. Activate your GrantForward account today!
This self-paced online course from the National Library of Medicine introduces PubChem’s key features and search tools for finding, linking, and downloading chemical information and demonstrates how to use the rich connections between PubChem and other resources (like PubMed).
Zotero 8 is a major release of the Zotero citation manager, which became available for download at the end of January 2026. New features include a unified citation dialog, better annotation handling, themes, note tabs, continuous file renaming, UI tweaks, and ARM Linux support.
CUIMC marked Black History Month with talks and an archival tour highlighting the role of Black students and faculty in civil rights activism and nursing education, emphasizing the importance of memory, medicine, and community action. The archival collections were a big hit!
This on-demand self-paced online course teaches expert topic searching using medical subject headings (MeSH), including when to go beyond the automatic mapping features of PubMed and how to document, refine, and expand comprehensive searches.
