In addition to the Library's liaison services, the Library offers customized training to students, faculty and staff on a variety of topics. Below are a number of sample topics for our training
sessions and consultation services.
Sessions can be held for individuals or for a group at the Library's computer classroom or in your own department. To schedule a session for yourself or for your group, please use the form below. A librarian will be in touch with
you to plan your training session.
In addition to customized training, we also offer regularly scheduled classes.
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Frequently-Requested Topics
Library Basics
- Tour of the Library
- Introduction to Using the Library
- Tips on finding full-text articles and other materials
- Information on Interlibrary Loan and other services
- Introduction to Clinical Tools: electronic resources to support clinical decision-making
Searching the Literature
- How to Search PubMed: Basics
- How to Search PubMed: Advanced
- Customizing PubMed with My NCBI
- Web of Science
- CINAHL (Nursing)
- Evidence-based medicine resources
Getting Organized for Research and Writing
- EndNote: Introduction
- EndNote: Advanced
- RefWorks
- Copyright
- Complying with the NIH Public Access Policy
- Tools for collaboration: Google Docs, etc.
Staying Current in an Information-rich World
- Using RSS feeds for current awareness
- Table of Contents services
- Blogs, wikis and social bookmarking
- Life after Duke: free resources to use when you graduate from Duke
Mobile Devices
- Quality mobile-accessible tools for clinical care
Preparing for Classes
- Blackboard and Bluedocs
- Copyright