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Wed 21 Mar 2018 – Wed 23 May 2018

March 2018

Wed 21	Medicine: Critical Appraisal - RCT Drug Trials Finished 14:00 - 15:30 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room Critical appraisal is the process of carefully and systematically examining research to judge its trustworthiness, and its value and relevance in a particular context.' Amanda Burls, What is Critical Appraisal?, Feb 2009 'An Introduction to Critical Appraisal' will help you understand how to critically appraise a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT). Using the CASP Checklist the course covers samples and sample size, randomisation, bias, statistics, significance (P Values and Confidence Intervals) and relevance. We ask that you read a paper that will be provided before you attend the session, in order for us to make the best use of the time together.
Thu 22	Medicine: Writing for Publication Finished 12:00 - 13:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room A course designed to take you step-by-step through academic writing and publication, with tips and resources to make writing up as simple as possible. The course will demystify the peer-review process, and help you to improve the precision and clarity of your academic writing.
Wed 28	Medicine: Literature Searching for Doctors Finished 08:00 - 10:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room One session covering the Medline database, targeted at doctors. Learn how to get the best out of your literature searches.

April 2018

Tue 17	Orientation Tour Finished 10:30 - 11:15 University Library The UL is unique: a national, legal deposit library with an amazing collection of around 8 million items - over two million of which you can browse on our open shelves. If that sounds a bit daunting, why not come on a brief orientation tour to help you find your way around? We’ll even tell you what we keep in the famous Library tower ... Please note this tour does not cover the University's vast electronic and digital collections: to find out more about using these, please see check for courses on our timetable or ask a member of Library staff for help.
	Medicine: Writing for Publication Finished 12:00 - 13:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room A course designed to take you step-by-step through academic writing and publication, with tips and resources to make writing up as simple as possible. The course will demystify the peer-review process, and help you to improve the precision and clarity of your academic writing.
Wed 18	Medicine: Literature Searching for Allied Health Professionals Finished 08:00 - 10:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room One session covering the Cinahl database, targeted at allied health professionals. Learn how to get the best out of your literature searches.
	The Diversifying Nature of Impact Finished 10:30 - 12:30 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Room 1 The diversifying nature of impact Pep Pàmies, the Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering, will provide tips on how to convey your research for broader impact, and discuss the jobs that selective scientific journals need to increasingly take on. Refreshments, including a sandwich lunch, will be provided. Please arrive promptly for a 10:30am start.
Fri 20	Medicine: Literature Searching for Doctors Finished 14:00 - 16:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room One session covering the Medline database, targeted at doctors. Learn how to get the best out of your literature searches.
Tue 24	Medicine: The "Big Four" Databases For Your Literature Search Finished 14:00 - 16:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room One session - four medicine and life science databases - widest coverage for your literature search. PubMed is great, but it doesn't cover all the journals relevant to life sciences and medicine. Embase, Web of Science and Scopus can also be relevant and each covers unique material. Come to this hands-on session to learn how to get the best from each of these "4 tops".
Fri 27	Medicine: Literature Searching for Nurses Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room One session covering the Cinahl database, targeted at nurses. Learn how to get the best out of your literature searches.
Mon 30	Train the trainer: How to give a tour of the UL Finished 09:00 - 09:15 Cambridge University Library is one of the top research libraries in the world and holds over 8 million items. If you are a member of Library staff at a college, department or faculty library and would like to give your students introductory tours of the UL, then we would love to help you gain the knowledge and confidence to do that. Email us today (research-skills@lib.cam.ac.uk) to organise a one-to-one tour with an experienced member of UL staff. We will guide you through the orientation tour route that we use for our own tours and can answer any questions that you may have.
	Medicine: Systematic Literature Reviews - A 'How To' Guide Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room Before undertaking any piece of primary research it’s important to be aware of as much of the existing literature as possible. A systematic literature review can also be a research end in itself. And it’s not something to be taken lightly. But how can you be sure you’re being as rigorous as necessary? How can you manage the references you find, document the process, and also know when to stop searching? If you need to do a systematic literature review, and you’re not able to make sense of the search strategy behind this paper then this course is for you. Please bring along details of your own topic so that the session can be tailored to address your specific needs.

May 2018

Tue 1	Medicine: Literature Searching for Nurses Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room One session covering the Cinahl database, targeted at nurses. Learn how to get the best out of your literature searches.
Thu 3	Medicine: Literature Searching for Doctors Finished 14:00 - 16:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room One session covering the Medline database, targeted at doctors. Learn how to get the best out of your literature searches.
Mon 7	Making Your Research Impactful Finished 14:00 - 15:30 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Room 5 This session explores why you should share your all research as widely as possible and how you can go about doing so. It will demonstrate the potential that Open Research can have in maximising exposure for your work and how you can track and trace how your research is being shared online. Please bring your own internet-enabled device to this session.
Wed 9	Medicine: Critical Appraisal - Systematic Reviews Finished 10:00 - 11:30 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room Critical appraisal is the process of carefully and systematically examining research to judge its trustworthiness, and its value and relevance in a particular context.' Amanda Burls, What is Critical Appraisal?, Feb 2009 This course will help you understand how to critically appraise a systematic review. We ask that you read a paper that will be provided before you attend the session, in order for us to make the best use of the time together.
Thu 10	Medicine: Managing Your Bibliography Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room How to take the bile out of your bibliography, and ensure that it's not the most time-consuming part of your work. A variety of tools will be showcased: EndNote, EndNoteWeb, Zotero, Mendeley.
Fri 11	Tools to track the impact of your publications on social media Finished 13:00 - 14:00 Faculty of English, GR04 Collecting impact evidence from social media of publications, conference papers or any other scholarly output can be complicated and time-consuming. In this session, we'll introduce you to a number of tools that can help to streamline and simplify these processes: IFTTT, Twitter analytics, Altmetric and ImpactStory.
	Medicine: The "Big Four" Databases For Your Literature Search Finished 14:00 - 16:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room One session - four medicine and life science databases - widest coverage for your literature search. PubMed is great, but it doesn't cover all the journals relevant to life sciences and medicine. Embase, Web of Science and Scopus can also be relevant and each covers unique material. Come to this hands-on session to learn how to get the best from each of these "4 tops".
Mon 14	Managing Your Research Data Effectively and Working Reproducibly for Beginners Finished 09:30 - 13:00 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Room 7 This workshop will work through the challenges around managing research data as well as the benefits of working reproducibly. Participants will be provided with in depth guidance and resources on how to effectively manage projects and avoid data loss throughout the research process. You will hear of what can happen if researchers do not manage their data well as well as what happens to research data after the end of a project, such as how to share and store data in a long-term and sustainable way. It is never too early to start thinking about these things, so get a head start on your research data management practices now!
	Medicine: Research Data Management Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room There is an increasing emphasis in research on the management and sharing of data. Many funding bodies that support research undertaken at Cambridge require not only open access to any publications based on that research, but also to the data underlying it. This course will help you understand funders’ requirements for management and sharing of research data, and will provide opportunities to create your own data management plan and test out resources that will make the data management process easier.
Wed 16	Medicine: Writing for Publication Finished 12:00 - 13:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room A course designed to take you step-by-step through academic writing and publication, with tips and resources to make writing up as simple as possible. The course will demystify the peer-review process, and help you to improve the precision and clarity of your academic writing.
Thu 17	Image copyright: practical tips on sourcing & reproducing images to use in your work Finished 12:45 - 14:00 Faculty of English, GR04 Presentation and Q&A discussion on all matters relating to image copyright. This will be an informal brown-bag session, so feel free to bring your lunch.
Tue 22	Medicine: Critical Appraisal - RCT Drug Trials CANCELLED 10:00 - 11:30 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room Critical appraisal is the process of carefully and systematically examining research to judge its trustworthiness, and its value and relevance in a particular context.' Amanda Burls, What is Critical Appraisal?, Feb 2009 'An Introduction to Critical Appraisal' will help you understand how to critically appraise a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT). Using the CASP Checklist the course covers samples and sample size, randomisation, bias, statistics, significance (P Values and Confidence Intervals) and relevance. We ask that you read a paper that will be provided before you attend the session, in order for us to make the best use of the time together.
Wed 23	Medicine: Literature Searching for Allied Health Professionals Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room One session covering the Cinahl database, targeted at allied health professionals. Learn how to get the best out of your literature searches.