LSUHSC Librarians can design a class or orientation to meet the specific needs of your faculty, staff or students. To customize a research course for your students or to request a repeat of our previous monthly classes, please complete this Microsoft Form. Classes are limited to current LSUHSC-NO faculty, staff, residents, and students.
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This Month's Scheduled Classes:
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- Research Impact 101: Understanding and Calculating Your h-Index
- Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 12pm, Isché/Downtown Library, Resource Center Room 405 and via Zoom (registration required)
- Discover what the h‑index really tells you about your scholarly influence. This introductory session breaks down how the h‑index is calculated and where you can find it across major research platforms. Whether you’re new to publication metrics or simply want a clearer understanding, this session will give you the confidence to interpret and use your h‑index effectively.
- Research Impact 101: Understanding and Calculating Your h-Index
November 2026
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- Research Impact 102: Building a Strong Scholarly Presence
- Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 12pm, Isché/Downtown Library, Resource Center Room 405 and via Zoom (registration required)
- Your online scholarly profile shapes how colleagues, collaborators, and evaluators discover your work. In this session, we’re excited to introduce new Library services designed to help authors enhance visibility on ORCID, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus, and other platforms. From early‑career researchers to tenured faculty, everyone can benefit from a more accurate, polished, and discoverable online presence. Let us show you how to strengthen your profiles and maximize your research impact.
- Learn more:
- Additional November sessions coming soon!
- Research Impact 102: Building a Strong Scholarly Presence
- Accessibility: Accessibility Policies and Resources for Digital Works, June 11, 2025; session recording
- Accessibility: Adobe PDFs-Remediating for Improved Accessibility, June 3, 2026; session recording and slides
- Adobe Express: Introduction to Adobe Express, June 20, 2024
- Cabells: Cabells Information Session, March 19, 2025
- CINAHL/Database Searching: Introduction to CINAHL
- Covidence: Covidence for Systematic Reviews: Essentials for Students and Researchers, April 29, 2026; session recording and slides
- Data Management: Writing a Data Management Plan: How and Why, July 11, 2024
- Data Preservation: Data Preservation: The 3-2-1 Rule and More, November 19, 2025; session recordingand slides
- Database Searching (EBSCO): New EBSCO User Interface: Come See What's Changed!, June 18, 2025; session recordingand slides
- Database Searching (EBSCO): Meet the New CINAHL & EBSCO Databases Search Page, July 29, 2026; session recording and slides
- Database Searching (General): Database Searching Strategies, April 18, 2024
- Database Searching (PubMed and Embase): Level Up Your Literature Search: PubMed and Embase Essentials, June 17, 2026; session recording and slides
- Digital Scholar: Introduction to LSU Health Digital Scholar, January 29, 2025
- DynaMed: Introduction to DynaMed - A Clinical Decision Tool, July 23, 2025; session recording and slides
- EndNote: Beyond the Basics-EndNote 25, March 11, 2026; session recording and slides
- EndNote: Introduction to EndNote 21, March 6, 2025
- EndNote: Introduction to EndNote 25, August 27, 2025; session recording
- EndNote: Introduction to EndNote 25, August 19, 2026; session recording and slides
- Funding Opportunities: Introduction to SPIN Database to Search for Funding Opportunities, September 10, 2025; session recording
- GIDEON: GIDEON Showcase, October 14, 2026; session recording
- Health Literacy: Measurements of Health Literacy, February 25, 2026; session recording and slides
- Journal Article Retrieval: Getting Journal Articles is Easy with the Library's Link Resolver, May 28, 2025; session recordingand slides
- Journal Article Retrieval: Making Things Easy with LibKey Nomad, June 26, 2024
- Journal Article Retrieval: (Re)Discover the Magic of LibKey Nomad, March 18, 2026; session recording and slides
- Library Resources: How to Get to Library Resources On and Off Campus, August 21, 2024
- Library Resources: Intro to ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium, July 15, 2026; session recording and slides
- Library Resources: JoVE: A Quick Review, March 25, 2026
- Library Resources: (Re)Introduction to Library Resources and Services, January 8, 2025
- Library Resources: Textbooks at LSUHSC-NO Libraries: A Guide for Instructors, April 23, 2025; session recording
- Library Resources: Textbooks at LSUHSC-NO Libraries: A Guide for Students, September 24, 2025; session recording
- Library Resources: VisualDx in partnership with representatives from VisualDx, April 8, 2026; session recording
- Library Resources: What's New with Journal Subscriptions and Open Access Fee Waivers (2025), February 19, 2025; session recording
- Library Resources: What's New with Journal Subscriptions and Open Access Fee Waivers (2026), January 29, 2026; session recording and slides
- NIH Public Access Policy/Scholarly Publishing: NIH Public Access Policy and the "Nelson Memo" - What you need to do now for NIH Award compliance, July 2, 2025; session recording
- Open Access: Up and Coming Open Access Tools, May 21, 2025; session recording
- Peer Review: How to Perform a Peer Review, May 29, 2024
- Posters: Poster Design Basics, April 24, 2024
- Posters: Printing Your Research Poster, August 26, 2026; session recording and slides
- Posters: Research Poster Basics, February 26, 2025
- Posters: Research Poster Printing, October 2, 2024
- Predatory Publishing: Beware Predatory Publishing, November 6, 2024; session recording
- PubMed/Database Searching: Introduction to PubMed and PubMed Searching, March 12, 2025
- PubMed/Database Searching: PubMed Searching: Tips and Tricks, September 25, 2024; session recording
- RefWorks: Introduction to RefWorks, April 16, 2025; session recordingand slides
- RefWorks: Introduction to RefWorks, February 11, 2026; session recording and slides
- RefWorks: Using RefWorks to Make Citation Management Less Scary, October 16, 2024
- Scholarly Publishing: Gold, Green, & Everything In Between: Your Scholarly Publishing Roadmap, October 15, 2025
- Scholarly Publishing: How LSUHSC-NO Libraries Can Support Publishing, November 13, 2024; session recording
- Scholarly Publishing: ORCID Made Easy: Library Support for Your Research Profile, May 20, 2026; session recording and slides
- Scholarly Publishing: Publication Metrics for Your CV, April 8, 2025; session recording
- Scholarly Publishing: Retractions, Reputations, and Responsibility: Safeguarding Integrity in Academic Health Research, October 8, 2025; session recording and slides
- Scholarly Publishing: Who Accesses Our Knowledge?, October 22, 2025
- StatPearls: Introduction to StatPearls for Faculty Admins, August 13, 2025; session recording and slides
- StatPearls: Introduction to StatPearls for Students, October 1, 2025; session recording and slides
- StatPearls: StatPearls for Students, September 9, 2026; session recording and slides
- Systematic Reviews: The Evidence Review Accelerator for Systematic Reviews, September 23, 2026; session recording and slides
- Systematic Reviews: Systematic and Scoping Reviews: What They Are, Why They Matter, and How to Do Them Right, November 12, 2025; session recording and slides
- Teaching: Interactive In-Person Class Ideas, March 26, 2025; session recording
- Don't Get Duped: Library Tools to Identify Predatory Journal & Problematic Articles, May 21, 2026; Session recording and presentation
- Hands-On Accessibility: Creating and Fixing Documents in Word, PowerPoint, and Acrobat Pro, April 16, 2026; Session recording, Presentation, and Microsoft Word Worksheet
- DynaMed and Clinical Decision Tools: Getting Fast, Reliable Answers at the Point of Care, January 15, 2026; Session recording
- LSU Health Digital Scholar: What Can Digital Scholar Do For You?, February 20, 2025; Session recording
- Discover the Magic of LibKey Nomad, November 21, 2024; Session recording
- EndNote, July 18, 2024; Session recording
- LSU Health Digital Scholar, November 16, 2023; Session recording
- New NIH Data Sharing Policy, February 16, 2023; Session recording
- Using Library Resources in Online Courses, March 18, 2021; Session recording
- Tips and Tricks for Using Library Resources, January 16, 2020; Session recording
Updated October 2026