Celebrate Iowa City Dawin Day, a celebration of science and it’s contributions to humanity! Darwin Day is sponored by The University of Iowa Libraries. Schedule of Events March 3rd-4th, 2017 (all events free and open to the public) Friday, March 3 Kollros Auditorium, Biology Building 2PM Darwin Day Poster Session + Reception 3PM Anne Fausto-Sterling:Continue reading “Celebrate Iowa City Darwin Day March 3-4th”
Category Archives: Education
Get started with a systematic review with our workshops this Spring
Are you interested in conducting a systematic review? We have two workshops to help you get started. Step one- Systematic Reviews: Nuts and Bolts of a Systematic Review This class provides a framework for developing a literature search for a systematic review, including: standards and criteria to consider establishing a planContinue reading “Get started with a systematic review with our workshops this Spring”
Faculty and Scholars: learn to measure your scholarly impact | Workshop Thurs., Feb. 23, 1-2pm @Hardin Library
Scopus and Web of Science databases are multidisciplinary and allow you to measure scholarly impact, with a focus on health sciences. This hands-on session will demonstrate: 1) how to quickly find the articles you need for you research or systematic review in each database 2) how to track an article’s cited and citing references inContinue reading “Faculty and Scholars: learn to measure your scholarly impact | Workshop Thurs., Feb. 23, 1-2pm @Hardin Library”
Researchers | workshop on data management planning | Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2-3pm @Hardin Library
As a result of recent requirements to expand public access to the results of federally funded research, researchers in all disciplines are required to “better account for and manage the digital data resulting from federally funded research.” The purpose of this workshop is to explain research data management and its importance, help identify some commonContinue reading “Researchers | workshop on data management planning | Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2-3pm @Hardin Library”
Love Your Data Week
It’s Love Your Data Week! A five-day international event to help researchers take better care of their data. Did you know there are resources on campus to help you create a management plan to store, organize, document, share, and preserve your research data? Research Data Services can help! PLAN: Does your funding agency require aContinue reading “Love Your Data Week”
Clinical mobile apps | Technology Tour & Meet Up | Wednesday Feb. 15, 2-3pm
Take a tour of some new (and some well-established) apps for your mobile device or smart phone! At this informal technology meeting, you’ll not only be shown a variety of tools for both academic and clinical use but also invited to share your own examples and experiences. If you don’t have a mobile device, don’t worry:Continue reading “Clinical mobile apps | Technology Tour & Meet Up | Wednesday Feb. 15, 2-3pm”
Evolution of University of Iowa Urology Department 1915-1949 | History of Medicine Lecture | Thursday, Feb. 23
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to a lecture by Charles Hawtrey, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Urology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine The Evolution of University Urology as a Reflection of University Priorities Thursday, February 23, 2017 5:30pm-6:30pm 2117 MERF (Medical Education and Research Facility) Dr. Hawtrey will reviewContinue reading “Evolution of University of Iowa Urology Department 1915-1949 | History of Medicine Lecture | Thursday, Feb. 23”
Health News from the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) Office @Hardin Library | February 2017
The GMR Office is using its Facebook page to help members make connections between health news and available National Library of Medicine (NLM) resources and databases. Health news is presented to us daily and the GMR Office hopes to increase health literacy by linking these current health issues to a variety of resources to help itsContinue reading “Health News from the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) Office @Hardin Library | February 2017”
Need help organizing your citations and writing papers? | EndNote Desktop workshops this Spring @Hardin Library
EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather together your references in one place, organize them, and then insert them into papers and format them in a style of your choosing. This session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format your citations. The class willContinue reading “Need help organizing your citations and writing papers? | EndNote Desktop workshops this Spring @Hardin Library”
Graduate Students, Faculty & Staff: Be more efficient with PubMed | Free workshops!
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to the medical literature and includes over 26 million bibliographic citations in life sciences. This one-hour session will show you how to improve your search results by using subject headings (MeSH) and advanced keyword searching techniques. Our sessions this semester: Thursday, February 9th, 10:00am-11:00am (East Information Commons)Continue reading “Graduate Students, Faculty & Staff: Be more efficient with PubMed | Free workshops!”