Are you interested in training courses in the medical field?
Book our competent team, for example for training courses in the field of health professions. You can visit the library with your group, preferably during the semester break.
We would also be happy to visit you in your clinic, e.g. in the morning meeting or for internal training. The advanced and extra events are also stored in the UM Events calendar.
BASICS (on request)
Feel free to send us an e-mail.
- Introduction to the library and lending methods
- Presentation of e-books and e-journals
- Use of the Research Portal
- Procurement of PDFs that are not available in Mainz
With subject-specific examples.
Optionally with research exercises and guided tour.
Duration: 15-30 min. in person or online. With exercises and guidance, 45-60 minutes in person.
SHORT (on request)
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PubMed is one of the most important sources of information in the field of medicine and its related sciences (nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health system, etc.).
Topics of the event are:
- Search with MeSH terms (Medical Subject Headings)
- How to use the filters
- Access to licensed full texts and ordering options
- Mainz PubMed Link
Duration: 20-45 min. in person or online.
EndNote can help you keep track of literature that has been read and evaluated when writing scientific publications. Structured work and citation are also made much easier with EndNote.
Topics of the event are:
- Import of references from PubMed
- Library Management
- Full-text search
- Citation in Word and use of citation styles
Duration: 20-45 min. in person or online.
ADVANCED (regular appointments – in person or online)
PubMed is one of the most important sources of information in the field of medicine and its related sciences (nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health system, etc.).
In this course, you will learn about thematic research in PubMed and how to get access to full texts. We will also show you other medically relevant databases.
After the course, you will be familiar with keyword search (MeSH) in PubMed and personalization options with MyNCBI.
The course takes place online.
Course duration: approx. 120 minutes
EndNote can help you keep track of literature that has been read and evaluated when writing scientific publications. Structured work and citation are also made much easier with EndNote.
We'll show you how to import and manage information about publications - e.g. found in databases - as well as how to insert, manage and reformat in Word.
The University Medical Center Mainz has acquired a framework license of the EndNote software for its employees and students. We have compiled detailed information including a download area.
The course takes place online.
Course duration: approx. 120 minutes
In our course, we will help you to formally design your dissertation according to the specifications of the Department of Research & Teaching.
- Styles and Document Structuring
- Tables and Graphs
- References
- Directories
The course takes place online.
Course duration: approx. 120 minutes
Zotero can help you keep track of literature that has been read and evaluated when writing scientific publications. Structured work and citation are also made much easier with Zotero.
We'll show you how to import and manage information about publications - e.g. found in databases - as well as how to insert, manage and reformat in Word.
Zotero is a free, open-source program and is suitable for all operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux).
The course takes place online.
Course duration: approx. 90 minutes
Contact
zotero@ub.uni-mainz.de
Web of Science is one of the most comprehensive and high-quality interdisciplinary article databases.
In this live course, you will learn how to systematically research your question in order to obtain the most relevant hits.
We will also explain the filter options and citation data in Web of Science and show you how to save searches and export relevant results to a reference management program.
The course takes place online.
Course duration: approx. 120 minutes
Link to Web of Science (access only in the university network, via VPN or remote desktop)
CONTACT: webofscience@ub.uni-mainz.de
In this practice-oriented workshop with a focus on literature research and documentation, you will gain concrete insight into the process of a systematic review. Through presentations, tips, exercises and teamwork, you will acquire the necessary know-how to develop a research question, write a protocol, conduct a literature research and document it. You'll also learn how to select, evaluate, extract, analyze, and synthesize relevant items. Another aspect is the selection of journals to publish your research paper.
Prerequisite
- In-depth knowledge of PubMed (Advanced Search, MeSH) and EndNote (Database Import, Groups)
- If you have not worked extensively with PubMed and/or EndNote, we invite you to take one of our EndNote or PubMed online courses.
EXTRA (regular appointments – face-to-face or online)
This two-part workshop with exercises is aimed at young scientists in medicine and related disciplines who want to learn more about the publication process:
- Get to know the publication process
- Journal selection – how do you find suitable journals for your topic in Web of Science?
- JCR – Impact Factor – how should the Impact Factor be assessed, also with regard to your subject area?
- Open Access publication – What are the fees? What funding opportunities are there?
- How to identify Fake Journals (Predatory Journals)?
Workshop with exercises
Total duration: 90-120 min.
This workshop with exercises aims to provide you with a supplementary, easy, and straightforward research method to find more articles on your topic or research. This supplementary research method is the citation search. With this form of citation search, studies are identified using direct citation links:
- these can be found in the bibliography of an original study (backward citation searching)
- or they are studies citing the original study (forward citation searching).
An extended form of citation search is the tracking of indirect citation connections. Here we look for:
- co-citing (citing studies of the cited studies from an original study) and
- co-cited (cited studies of the cited studies of an original study) studies
We’ll be using databases such as Web of Science and Google Scholar, as well as other tools to help you automate this process.
Workshop with exercises
Duration: 90 min.
Contact
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