Class Catalog

This page contains descriptions of all NNLM classes, including previous classes.

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Open Tools for Data De-identification

The webinar will provide a brief introduction to data science topics and terminologies. Topics will include AI in healthcare, explaining what natural language processing is, and discussing HIPAA privacy requirements and defining PII. This first part will be brief and focus on providing a foundational understanding. The second and bulk of the class will focus on the NLM Scrubber and CliniDeID as examples of NLP models that can be used for clinical deidentification.  The class will cover how to promote these tools at the librarians' institution.

Phrase Searching in PubMed

When you search PubMed for a phrase, or multi-word concept, its powerful search features jump into action to retrieve relevant results. Sometimes, however, you may want to use advanced search techniques to look for exact phrases or variations on a phrase. This tutorial will address the questions:  

Piecing Together Systematic Reviews

This 5-part webinar series will cover the PIECCESS review cycle as described in the book by Margaret J. Foster and Sarah T. Jewell Piecing Together Systematic Reviews and Other Evidence Syntheses (2022). PIECCESS is a framework consisting of 8 phases. Each 90-minute session will delve into a specific phase of the cycle. Session 5 will cover phases 5-8.

Preprints: Accelerating Research

What are preprints, and how are they changing how biomedical research results are shared?

Should you use information from preprints? Should you share your own research results in a preprint? This course from the National Library of Medicine® explains the basics of preprints, and explores the benefits and considerations of using and submitting preprints.

Prescription and Over the Counter Drugs: Supporting Patients with Evidence-Based Information

This 1 credit hour on-demand course will cover differences between prescription and over the counter medications, data regarding use in the United States, and three free resources from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health: the NIDA website, DailyMed and LactMed.  The course includes a recorded presentation, demos of the resources, and guided exercises to try the resources hands-on. 

Providing Mental Health Resources at Your Library

This 1-hour webinar will discuss how to effectively respond to requests for mental health information at your library.

This presentation addresses increasing health information access and use, along with increasing health equity through information by highlighting resources from the National Library of Medicine and other government health information resources for patients, their families and friends.

Providing Multilingual Health Information (Webinar)

This webinar addresses increasing health information access and use by highlighting information from National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus health information resource for patients and their families and friends, resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health and other freely available resources.

PubChem Tutorial

This self-paced PubChem tutorial guides you through how to access chemical property and structure data that hundreds of academic, government and industrial sources contribute to PubChem.  It includes step-by-step directions for how to find chemical information using chemical names, identifiers, molecular formulas, gene symbols, proteins, pathways, taxonomies, and structures. It also shows you how to use the rich connections between PubChem and other resources (like PubMed) to explore chemical information further, and how to download chemistry data from PubChem.

Public Health Webinar Series Archive

This webinar series is currently inactive, but you can view recordings of previous webinars on the Public Health Webinar Series NNLM Channel YouTube Playlist.

PubMed Essentials On-Demand

If you’re new to PubMed or just want a refresher this online class is designed for you. The class is made up of 10 short units (listed below) that include videos, hands-on exercises and short quizzes. The class gives you the chance to explore PubMed at your own pace. This class takes about 1 hour to complete. 

This class addresses increasing health information access and use by highlighting information about the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed bibliographic database. 

R4 Connections Webinar Series

R4 Connections is a bi-monthly webinar featuring topics of interest for NNLM Region 4 members and beyond.

Region 1 Unconference 2023

The NNLM Region 1 invites you to attend its first unconference! An unconference is a participant-oriented event where attendees structure the interactions, emphasizing conversations over formal presentations. The emphasis is on interaction between attendees and the discussions which emerge when participants are given an opportunity to engage with each other on topics of interest