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On Demand Tutorials

These concise tutorials address specific biomedical research skills, offering a no-frills, self-paced approach to learning.

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Released | 5 minutes | 1 Episode

Altmetric Bookmarklet

In this tutorial, we will provide you with information about utilizing the Altmetric Bookmarklet browser plug-in for providing information about a single publication mentions in the news, social media, peer-reviews, blogs, public policies etc.

Released | 13 minutes | 1 Episode

Creating Thesaurus for Individual Co-Authorship Network in VOSviewer

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and apply a thesaurus for the Co-occurrence Network of Author Keywords, have the opportunity to compare the initial network visualization with the new one after applying the thesaurus, and identify differences.

Released | 34 minutes | 1 Episode

Advanced PubMed

This thirty-five minute training will cover some advanced features of using the PubMed interface. This training will demonstrate how to use special, customizable features of PubMed to improve their searches and save and manipulate search results.

Released | 46 minutes | 1 Episode

Introduction to Scopus

This 45 minute training will cover the essentials of searching the Scopus database. The database covers the health sciences, physical sciences, life sciences, and social sciences. The types of documents include articles, patents, conferences, preprints, and many others.

Released | 29 minutes | 1 Episode

Introduction to R and RStudio

This 30 minute training will cover a basic overview of the functionality of R programming language and RStudio. R is a programming language and open-source environment for statistical computing and graphics.

Released | 1 minutes | 1 Episode

What are Bibliometrics and How to Access Our Services

In this tutorial, you will learn more about bibliometrics and how to use the service via the NIH Library.