The library offers the following courses: The courses are mainly for employees and PhD candidates at the Faculty of Medicine and for employees at Helse Bergen. Courses for students are normally given as a part of their study program. If that isn’t the case, they can attend these courses as well. The courses are free of charge, but registration is necessary for our planning. The courses are held either physically at the library or online via Zoom.

• Searching in PubMed and Embase
• Introduction to Endnote
• Introduction to Zotero
• Introduction to systematic reviews
• Literature studies for Bachelor and Master students (in Norwegian)

Date and time, registration and more information can be found on the library’s web pages:

Courses in English: https://www.uib.no/en/ub/128609/courses-and-guidance#courses-requiring-registration

Overview of all courses (Norwegian or English): https://www.uib.no/ub/126018/kurs-og-veiledning#kurs-med-p-melding

Short descriptions:

• Searching in PubMed and Embase: Everyone can use PubMed! However, with some extra knowledge you may search more efficiently. In the course we demonstrate the use of subject headings MeSH, and the use of filters for quick limiting to clinical queries (like diagnostic studies, or intervention studies). Embase is another important medical database which covers several different journals than PubMed/Medline. Therefore, Embase is a valuable supplement to PubMed, if you want to get a better overview over the literature within your field.
• Introduction to EndNote: EndNote is a tool for managing references. The course covers how to build your own EndNote library, how to use references from EndNote in the writing process with Word, formatting the text and generating literature lists.. Other functionalities like manually adding references, grouping, removing duplicates, and importing full text will also be covered.
• Introduction to Zotero: This introductory course to Zotero should allow you to collect references by a variety of means and generate citations as well as reference lists. It covers: make a collection, import references from medical databases, manual input and to use the software for citation in a word processor (WORD or Google Docs).
• Introduction to systematic reviews: In this course we inform about common types of reviews, and the role of the library in the different phases of the work with a systematic review. We give an  overview over the process of doing a systematic review: write a protocol, prepare the searches, data management, quality appraisal, and guidelines for reporting.
• Literature studies for Bachelor and Master students (in Norwegian): This course is for students who chose literature study as their bachelor- or master thesis, and have not yet be offered a course as part of their study program. We teach about the process in a literature study. The course covers preparational work before literature searching, how to manage and work with the search results, and how to document the methods used.

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