Accessibility compliance
HSLS is committed to ensuring our resources are accessible to all students, staff, and faculty. All materials we create and either distribute or link to must meet the University's accessibility standards.
- PowerPoints, Word documents, and PDFs must be compliant if distributed.
- All HSLS LibGuides will be switched over to an accessible template in early December.
- Videos must have closed captioning.
Falk Library
The Falk Library construction has continued over the summer and into the fall. I haven't seen it yet, but I've been told the changes to the space are quite significant.
- Hours through fall semester: 7:00 am to 6:00 pm
- # of people allowed: This will depend on COVID safety restrictions. See the Library update page for more information: https://www.hsls.pitt.edu/covid-19
HSLS Classes
We continue to offer HSLS classes, all via Zoom. A list of our classes can be found at:
Contact the course instructor about availability to schedule an offering for your class.
New classes include:
- Preprints: Why, How, and Should I?
- Introduction to Zotero
- Open Access Fundamentals
- Finding Information in Support of Health Equity Research
- Social Justice & Publicly Available Data
- Introduction to Measuring Research Impact
Data services
Do you have a funded project or are you working on seeking funding? Do you need to write data management or data sharing plan? Have you incorporated the FAIR Data Sharing Principles into your project? Or maybe you would like a data expert to come to your class and talk about version control? Look no further than the Data Services class offerings: https://www.hsls.pitt.edu/data-services/classes-and-training
MolBio
Check out the What’s New @ HSLS MolBio blog: https://info.hsls.pitt.edu/molbio/ to learn more about their fall classes as well as conferences, seminars, and webinars of interest. Additionally, the MolBio Licensed tools LibGuide is a good resources to learn about all of the resources available to you: https://hsls.libguides.com/molbio/licensedtools/resources
HSLS Videos: All videos are closed captioned
Search for research articles and books from HSLS: https://bit.ly/HSLS-research-articles-books
- Highlights
- Searching with the new Discovery Tool to find articles as well as ebooks & chapters
- Link to PubMed
- Faculty: Consider using this to look for your next course reserve textbook
- Did you know: SpringerLink books are only $25 to purchase if we own the title?
- Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials by Lemuel Moye
Painless PubMed: http://bit.ly/Painless-PubMed-3videos
- The full Painless PubMed class presented in 3 videos
- Part 1: Introduction & Objectives, 10m 31s
- About PubMed (PM); Create a My NCBI account; How to access PubMed and full text found through PM; Navigate the PM screen
- Part 2: Develop your search strategy, 28m 42s
- Articulate your research question; Create a basic search using Boolean operators; MeSH terms; How to broaden and narrow a search
- Part 3: Other PM features, 15m 39s
- Limit options; Search within a date range; Find similar articles
Create & Customize a My NCBI Account: https://bit.ly/myncbi-account
- Highlights the ability to:
- Save searches
- Include linkout buttons to journals at Pitt-UPMC
Locating full text when searching PubMed: https://bit.ly/HSLS-FT-from-PM
- Highlights the steps to retrieve the full text of articles
- Includes using Document Delivery when not available through Pitt
Helena VonVille, MLS, MPH
She/her/hers
Graduate School of Public Health Liaison
Research and Instruction Librarian
University of Pittsburgh
Health Sciences Library System
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
HelenaVonVille@pitt.edu
Phone: 412-648-8927
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5193-2391
To pronounce my name: https://www.name-coach.com/helena-vonville
Is your health research reporting complete?
Check the EQUATOR Network for the latest reporting guidelines for your study type: http://www.equator-network.org/
10/16/2020