MSTP Library Sessions
The MSTP hosts library sessions for students in their PhD years. The objective of these seminars is for students to learn necessary skills that will benefit their PhD research. Students gain knowledge and skills to maximize their impact through open-access publishing and assessing the impact of their scholarly output.
These required 1.5-hour sessions are presented by the University of Illinois Chicago Health Sciences Library faculty.
Demystifying Open Access and Scholarly Publishing Heading link
Do you wonder how to select a journal in which to publish or wonder about the quality of a journal? Do you wonder about the differences between open access and subscription-based journals or how to make research more accessible and maximize its visibility? This workshop will cover the benefits and challenges of open access publishing, and how to help ensure scholarly publishing is open to all including compliance with the NIH public access policy. This workshop will also touch on open science, the importance of research integrity, peer review, publication ethics, avoiding predatory publishers, and copyright considerations.
Faculty Lead
Sandy De Groote, MLIS, AHIP, MEd
Professor and Head, Scholarly Communications
Course Instructor
Troubleshooting your PubMed results Heading link
When you search PubMed, are you sometimes confused by the results you receive? In this session, you will learn about some of the quirks of PubMed, and how these can impact which records are returned in the results. The goal of this session is to give better insights into how PubMed works, as well as potential options, and limitations, for decreasing the number of irrelevant results.
Faculty Lead
Emily Gilbert, MLIS
Assistant Professor and Liaison Librarian to Library of Health Sciences
Course Instructor
Advanced Search for Research Heading link
In this session, students will learn the mechanics of how literature databases operate so that they can design search strategies that will meet their information needs. We will break down a research question and then, using PubMed as our database system, work through designing a search strategy that takes best advantage of the syntax and controlled vocabulary behind it, while staying agnostic to search frameworks.
Faculty Lead
Tina Griffin, MLIS
Associate Professor and Library Liaison to the Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine
Course Instructor
Introduction to Data Management Heading link
In this session, students will learn the mechanics of how literature databases operate so that they can design search strategies that will meet their information needs. We will break down a research question and then, using PubMed as our database system, work through designing a search strategy that takes best advantage of the syntax and controlled vocabulary behind it, while staying agnostic to search frameworks.
Faculty Lead
Tina Griffin, MLIS
Associate Professor and Library Liaison to the Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine
Course Instructor