Tag: Librarians

October 10 Webinar: Using NCBI Medical Genetics Resources: MedGen, ClinVar, GTR

Next Wednesday, October 10, 2018, NCBI staff will show you how to use the NCBI resources MedGen, ClinVar, and GTR to locate records for a specified list of symptoms or clinical features, explore specific disease-causing variants, see the review status of the clinical significance for a genetic variant, and find tests relevant to a clinical feature, gene or disease. You will also learn which resource works best for different types of searches.

Date and time: Wed, Oct 10, 2018 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM EDT

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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about attending the webinar. A few days after the live presentation, you can view the recording on the NCBI YouTube channel. You can learn about future webinars on the Webinars and Courses page.

Institutional Repositories in PubMed: a new quick way to free full text articles

New icons are starting to appear in PubMed that take you directly to free full text publications uploaded in an institutional repository (IR). Here’s an example:

This one is from Deep Blue, University of Michigan’s Library IR. When you see it on a publication like this one on Ebola, you can get free access to the publication there.

The icons only appear when there is no free full text available from the journal or PMC (PubMed Central). So far, only 4 IRs with eligible publications are participating – you can see which ones they are here. They already expand access to around 25,000 publications.

The NCBI program that enables this is LinkOut. You can read more about it in the NLM Technical Bulletin. IRs can apply by email to join LinkOut. And if you are an author at an institution with a repository, support your IR and enable more people to read your work.

A Fourth Offering of A Librarian’s Guide to NCBI

This blog post is directed toward medical or science librarians in the United States who offer bioinformatics education and support services or are planning to offer such services in the future.

The NCBI, in partnership with the National Library of Medicine Training Center (NTC), will once again offer the Librarian’s Guide to NCBI course on the NIH campus, March 7-11, 2016 (Announcement). This will be the fourth presentation of the course, and there are now 69 graduates of the training program.

These graduates represent 61 libraries, hospitals and government agencies from 27 states and the District of Columbia. Librarian’s Guide graduates now form a core community of NCBI-trained bioinformatics support specialists who maintain collaboration and mutual support through an online forum and monthly NCBI “Office hours” videoconference discussion sessions with course faculty and students. Materials from the 2013, 2014 and 2015 courses are available now, as well as lecture videos for the expression module.

Librarian's Guide 2015 class photo — **Figure 1.** Participants in the March 2015 *A Librarian’s Guide to NCBI* course. This class included 29 biomedical and science librarians.

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A Librarian’s Guide to NCBI — an intensive training course for medical librarians to be offered April 2014

The NCBI in partnership with the National Library of Medicine Training Center (NTC) will offer the Librarian’s Guide to NCBI course on the NIH campus in April 2014. This will be the second presentation of the course; it was previously offered in the spring of 2013 (NCBI Insights April 11 and May 6, 2013). After the course, we will post lecture slides and hands-on practical exercises on the education area of the NCBI FTP site and video tutorials of the course lectures will be available on the NCBI YouTube channel. Materials from the 2013 course are available, as well as lecture videos for the expression module.
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A Librarian’s Guide to NCBI: Course Follow-up

NCBI, in collaboration with NLM and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NLM Training Center (NTC) at the University of Utah, recently presented A Librarian’s Guide to NCBI. This new course was designed to prepare health science librarians for supporting and training patrons about NCBI molecular databases and tools at their own institutions.

Participants, instructors, and organizers in the first offering of “A Librarian’s Guide to NCBI” outside the National Library of Medicine.

We have made all of the course materials available. Feel free to learn from these, adapt them for your own teaching, or share them with others. You can use the links below access the course materials, which include the slide sets with quizzes, demonstrations and practice problems, or visit the FTP site to get all the materials.

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A Librarian’s Guide to NCBI – A New Education Initiative

Next week NCBI will premiere A Librarian’s Guide to NCBI, a new course aimed at teaching health science librarians about NCBI resources. The course is sponsored by the NCBI, the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine’s NLM Training Center (NNLM/NTC) at the University of Utah. The initial offering of this course will be held from April 15-19, 2013.

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