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Helping Science Succeed: The Librarian’s Role in Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis (Recording)

In this webinar, you’ll learn what the crisis is and the vital role of librarians in addressing it. #MLAReproducibility
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Introduction to Evaluating Public Datasets Using FAIR Data Principles (Recording)

This webinar will provide an introduction to open data and FAIR principles, along with real-world examples and scenarios.
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Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice (Recording)

If you teach, search, or provide reference services in the health sciences, a solid grounding in Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is essential. Sarah Cantrell & Steph Hendren, veteran EBP instructors, will introduce you to the principles and processes.
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Introduction to Research for Health Sciences Librarians

If you want to do library research, this course in library research basics will start you off right!
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Is Google Scholar Smart Enough for Your Reviews (Recording)

If you have not used Google Scholar for your reviews, this webinar may change your mind.
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JMLA Insider: All You Need to Know to Publish Your Research

Enroll in the free recorded webinar and learn insider tips and tricks, including how to avoid some of the most common pitfalls and traps that can keep your research from reaching readers. #JMLAPublish
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NNLM Research Data Management Webinar Series: Better than Best Practices: Inclusive Data Visualization

The NNLM Research Data Management (RDM) webinar series is a collaborative, bimonthly series intended to increase awareness of RDM topics and resources. The series aims to support RDM within the library to better serve librarians and their institutional communities.
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NNLM Research Data Management Webinar Series: Ethical Issues in Citizen Science Research

The NNLM Research Data Management (RDM) webinar series is a collaborative, bimonthly series intended to increase awareness of RDM topics and resources. The series aims to support RDM within the library to better serve librarians and their institutional communities.
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NNLM Research Data Management: The Charts are Off: Approaches to Ethical Decision-Making in Data Visualization

The NNLM Research Data Management (RDM) webinar series is a collaborative, bimonthly series intended to increase awareness of RDM topics and resources. The series aims to support RDM within the library to better serve librarians and their institutional communities.
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Preprints: Accelerating Research – On Demand

What are preprints and how are they changing how biomedical research results are shared? This one-hour online, self-paced course is intended to introduce researchers, librarians and others to preprints and how they can be used in literature searching and in sharing your research results with others.
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PubChem

PubChem is NNLM’s open chemistry database and the largest freely accessible reference tool for chemical information. This online, self-paced course for anyone interested in chemical information walks users through the functions and features of PubChem with interactive exercises and quizzes.
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Putting the Quality in Qualitative: Tips for Evaluating Qualitative Research (Recording)

Think qualitative research is hard to evaluate for scientific rigor? Think again! This webinar will provide an overview of qualitative research study designs, including sampling techniques, data analysis strategies, and theoretical approaches, that will help identify strengths and weaknesses.
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Survey Design: Reporting and Displaying Survey Results

You've analyzed your survey results. Now learn how to communicate them effectively to your audiences!
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Survey Design: Sampling, Implementation, and Analysis

Advance beyond the basics of writing survey questions.
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Systematic Review Protocols: Collaborating to Develop the Foundation of a Review (Recording)

This recorded webinar will help you develop skills in effectively collaborating with research teams on developing protocols.
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Tell Your Research Story: Visualization, Design, and Messaging (Recording)

This webinar serves the dual purpose of role-modeling how to teach data visualization and applying design principles and targeted messaging into your professional activities.
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The Fundamentals of Library Program and Service Evaluation (Recording)

Assessment of teaching activities is familiar to most librarians, but how to evaluate libraries’ services may be more abstract and unclear. This webinar will provide a step-by-step process for evaluating services, programs, or initiatives. #MLALibraryEval
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Topic Searching in PubMed: Using the Medical Subject Headings (On Demand)

Learn how to use the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) for expert PubMed searching in this hands-on, self-paced, online course.
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Using Common Data Elements to Enhance Research Data (Recording)

Learn how you can use Common Data Elements (CDEs) to assist researchers and guide clinicians and others in interpreting research.
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What's Needed to Make a Literature Search Reproducible? An Introduction to PRISMA-S (Recording)

Knowing what, where, and how to report details of a literature search for a systematic review is a challenge. In this session, we'll introduce the new PRISMA-S reporting guideline, which helps you describe your methods and results transparently.
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Advanced PubMed Techniques*

Learn advanced concepts to add to your PubMed toolkit. Automatic Term Mapping; Author searching; Drug information to treat diseases; Pharmacologic action; Coordinating MeSH terms (like Indexers do); Tools for finding Evidence Based research in PubMed; Phrase searching and the Phrase Index.
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Advanced Searching Techniques and Advanced Strategy Design*

This face-to-face course will explore issues around search design and search techniques for undertaking literature searches of complex topics to inform high quality comparative effectiveness research, systematic reviews, guideline development and other major projects.
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An Overview of the All of Us Researcher Workbench and the Role of the Librarian*

This online training will feature the All of Us Data and Research Center (DRC) and will present more in-depth information on the Researcher Workbench and how campus libraries are well situated to respond to the needs of academic institutions for data-driven research.
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Beyond the Survey: Conducting Qualitative Research – A webinar series*

The purpose of this series is to provide librarians with an opportunity to expand their knowledge on qualitative research methodology and to hear from academic and hospital librarians who have successfully utilized these methods for their research projects.
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CAIFL: Critical Appraisal Institute for Librarians*

Ready to move beyond basic EBM? Develop your critical appraisal skills in this advanced online course that will prepare you to teach critical appraisal with confidence.
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Clean & Tidy Data: Getting Started with Spreadsheet Data*

In this webinar, you will learn the best data principles while working with spreadsheets, identify how to curate and identify common issues with spreadsheets, and set the foundations for getting data more interoperable with downstream processes.
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CLEBP & Research Caucus' Abstract Writing Workshop*

Get started with creating and submitting an abstract to MLA 2024, in this blended course, and apply what you learn toward submitting abstracts to other professional conferences. Bring any ideas and questions to discuss at this workshop, or just come to learn more about it!
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Community-Based Health Information*

In this online course, learn about consumer and public health information services and programs that can impact the health of the communities you serve.
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Consumer Health Information Resources and Services*

This online course provides an overview of, and introduction to, the consumer health information environment.
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Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response for Information Professionals*

This online course will explore how libraries of all types are impacted by disasters. Students will learn how librarians work in preparation, prevention, and planning for effective disaster preparedness and response with a focus on community needs and health literacy concerns.
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