Library Classes

Becker Library staff provide expert instruction in a variety of areas to help faculty, staff, and students gain skills in research computing basics, citation management, publication metrics, and much more. Browse the classes below or click a subject area to see associated offerings. Customized classes are also available on demand via the Custom Class Request Form.

Advanced Searching Skills Series

Database Searching

Ready to take your database search skills to the next level? Join us for a four part series focused on advanced searching techniques.

Clear & Effective Scientific Presentations

Health and Science Communication

In this session, you will gain insight into planning, preparing, and delivering well-structured talks that will engage your audience. Harness the power of presentation design aspects, such as slide color, contrast, and animations, to enhance your message. You’ll also learn how to navigate Q&As successfully and discover graphical support resources available to the WashU community.

Clear Communication for Clearer Consent

Health and Science Communication

Learn the basics of health literacy and best practices for addressing health literacy concerns in the informed consent process. The session will also cover incorporating plain language principles into the consent process, effective use of teach-back, and other best practices for communication.

Embase for Clinical Point-of-Care Searching

Database Searching

Embase is a comprehensive biomedical database which includes advanced search tools for finding clinical information quickly at the point of care. During this brief class participants will learn how to use Embase’s PICO search, a tool which provides search boxes formatted to utilize synonyms, controlled vocabulary, and Boolean in the PICO(T) format, easily producing relevant  [Read more]

EndNote Web

Citation Management, Database Searching, Grant Application and Compliance

EndNote Web is a web-based reference organizer and collaboration tool that enables EndNote users to collect references when away from their desktop and collaborate easily with others. Learn how to store your references and output them in a variety of formats including Vancouver, NIH and a myriad of different journal styles. The University subscribes to  [Read more]

Getting Organized with EndNote

Citation Management, Database Searching, Grant Application and Compliance

This class introduces the basics of the EndNote software, a flexible tool for organizing bibliographic references. Learn how to retrieve references directly from EndNote, collect full text articles, automatically import personal PDFs , create new records, import citations from a bibliographic database (i.e., Medline), search the EndNote database, adapt citations to various journal publishers, format  [Read more]

Grant Assistants, Analysts, and Administrative Assistants: Use EndNote to Organize your References

Citation Management, Database Searching, Grant Application and Compliance

Learn how to manage your principal investigator research citations. Attend this class and learn how to execute an author name search using databases (PubMed/Medline, SCOPUS, Web of Science, etc.), import references into an EndNote library, keep track of your citations, grab full text articles, and create bibliographies based on different journal styles in a flash!  [Read more]

Introduction to Embase

Database Searching

Embase is a comprehensive biomedical database that provides access to a wider range of journals, articles, and information resources than PubMed. During this introductory session users will learn how to access Embase, how to build searches, use limits/filters, and save/export search results. By the end of the session participants should feel more confident using and  [Read more]

Introductory Compute

Research Computing

The Introductory Compute is designed for researchers without any prior experience using the Unix command line interface and high performance computing. During each workshop session, important background concepts are introduced in a simple presentation format, accompanied by demonstration exercises.

Less is More: Crafting & Delivering Compelling Messages

Health and Science Communication

As a scientist, you are highly knowledgeable in your area of expertise, and writing a scholarly paper or presenting your latest findings is usually easy. But explaining what you do outside your professional circle may be difficult, especially if you have limited time. In this workshop, you will learn and practice distilling your message to  [Read more]

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