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Classes on topics related to writing, editing, and publishing are available from the NIH Library's training program. Learn how to write compelling and concise research papers, understand the publishing lifecycle, and become familiar with issues surrounding copyright and plagiarism. The NIH Library offers a variety of classes to enhance your knowledge about scholarly communication and increase your chances of being published. Tutorials and customized training by NIH Library staff can also be provided. The list below includes Writing & Editing classes in our course catalog. Click the title of the class to view any upcoming sessions.
This one-hour online training session will help authors navigate the legal and ethical issues surrounding copyright and plagiarism, identify and avoid potential copyright infringement issues, and ensure the integrity of their work as a component of their publishing process. This training also highlights emerging AI related considerations related to plagiarism and copyright.
By the end of the training, attendees will be able to:
This one-hour online training in the NIH Library Evidence Synthesis Review Series introduces techniques and frameworks to help build an answerable review question suitable for differing types of evidence synthesis reviews. This training presents well known frameworks such as PICO for systematic reviews, and PCC for scoping reviews and introduces some lesser-known frameworks that may be helpful. The training also touches on the requirements and process for the evidence synthesis literature review.
This one-hour training will cover the key steps on how to successfully create an ORCiD profile. Attendees will learn the steps on how to easily add and update information to their profile including importing publications, reports, grants, and peer review scholarly work. The session will review resources and best practices for creating an ORCiD profile that can be included in your CV, grant applications and bio to increase the visibility of your scholarly activities.
This one-hour online training is the first session in a two-part series that aims to assist researchers in writing a research paper. This training introduces the preliminary steps in the publishing process including generating an idea, choosing a journal, understanding journal criteria and format requirements, and writing a paper within the research manuscript framework. The training also provides best practices and tips for writing each section of the paper.
This one-hour online training is the second session in a two-part series that aims to assist researchers in writing a research paper. This training will cover what happens after a manuscript is submitted to a journal including the peer review process, responding to journal editor and peer reviewer comments, and understanding open access and data sharing requirements. This training also provides best practices and tips to make the manuscript writing and submission process easier.
This one-hour online training will cover importing records into EndNote Desktop, creating, managing, and sharing EndNote libraries, and inserting formatted citations into a Word document using the “Cite While You Write” feature.
By the end of this training, attendees will be able to:
The PowerPoint Accessibility series is comprised of two trainings scheduled during lunch to introduce attendees to the basics of PowerPoint accessibility and how to use the built-in accessibility checker.
Part 2 is a 45-minute online training where attendees will be introduced to the PowerPoint Accessibility Checker. Using a sample presentation, attendees will become familiar with common accessibility issues and how to resolve them.
By the end of this training, attendees will be able to:
This one hour and fifteen-minute online training will provide an overview of databases and author profile websites to help locate experts in a research field. During this training, the instructor will review how to use tools to locate authors related to a specific topic, find algorithmically generated author profiles, and how to find author-maintained profiles.
In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering this two-hour online training to assist researchers in writing a manuscript. Participants will become familiar with statistical issues that can arise as well as recommendations to prevent them. Most of the examples will be related to clinical research; however, anyone can benefit from the tips shared.
This one-hour online training in the NIH Library Evidence Synthesis Review series provides an overview of the reporting guidelines used for writing your review manuscript including how to structure the manuscript and select an appropriate journal for submission.
By the end of this training attendees will be able to:
Understand the importance of using a guideline for writing the review
