The Health Sciences Library will be closed Saturday, March 30 due to an unplanned water outage. We apologize for the inconvenience. We plan to re-open on Monday, April 1.

The Health Sciences Library will be closed Friday, January 12 due to an unplanned water outage. We apologize for the inconvenience. We will plan to re-open on Tuesday, January 16.

The Health Sciences Libraries are providing a fall webinar series on searching the health literature. We hope you can join us on Teams for these sessions. They will also be recorded. You can visit the links below at the start of each session to join. 

Thursday, September 7, 2023, 12 –1 pm 

Searching the Health Literature 101: Recording 

This session will provide an introduction to searching the health literature with tips, tricks, and best practices to make your searches more successful.  

Rachel Helbing, Head of Health Sciences Libraries, will cover searching basics like choosing appropriate databases, using PICO to generate a list of keywords, constructing a strategy with Boolean operators, and more. Skills learned in this session will be applicable for searching a variety of biomedical and social sciences databases.  

Thursday, October 5, 2023, 12 – 1 pm 

PubMed 101: Recording 

This session will provide an introduction to searching PubMed, the world’s premiere biomedical database which comprises more than 36 million citations.  

Rachel Helbing, Head of Health Sciences Libraries, will cover PubMed basics like constructing a search, using MeSH and search filters, sorting and sharing results, and accessing full text. Skills learned in this session will help you get the most out of your PubMed searches. 

Thursday, November 9, 2023, 12 – 1pm 

Embase 101: Recording 

This session will provide an introduction to searching Embase, a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 8,200 journals, including 3,000 journals unique to Embase and journals from 95 countries. 

Rachel Helbing, Head of Health Sciences Libraries, will cover Embase basics like constructing a search, using Emtree and search filters, sorting and sharing results, and accessing full text. Skills learned in this session will help you get the most out of your Embase searches. 

The library’s access to BoardVitals will be ending Thursday, August 31st. The group through which we receive BoardVitals is switching to a different board review service, StatPearls, https://www.statpearls.com/. We will have access to select packages on StatPearls starting September 1st. 

Packages to be included are: 

• Nursing School Package 
• Pharmacy Package 
• Family Medicine 
• USMLE Step 1, Step 2, Step 3 
• Physician Assistant Package 
• EMS-EMT Basic 
• Radiology Technology 

More information about StatPearls is forthcoming. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause. If you have any questions, please contact collections@uh.edu  

The Health Sciences Library will be closed December 21 due to a water outage.
 
We will be working remotely from 8am until 5pm. If you need assistance please send an email to rrhelbin@central.uh.edu.

We will resume our intersession hours December 22.

The third and final session in the Health Sciences Library’s fall webinar series is coming up tomorrow. Please join us for this lunch & learn session to be held on Zoom.

Copyright 101
With Dave Fagundes, Baker Botts LLP Professor of Law and Research Dean at the University of Houston Law Center
Wed 11/17, 12 – 1 pm
Recording

This session will cover the basics of the federal Copyright Act and major judicial interpretations, including what works are protected, what acts are infringing, when unauthorized use may be permitted, and what common misunderstandings about copyright law to avoid.

This session will be recorded and archived in the UH Institutional Repository.

Please contact Rachel Helbing at rrhelbin@central.uh.edu with any questions.

The second session in our fall webinar series is coming up this Wednesday. Please join us for this lunch & learn session to be held on Zoom.

• EndNote 101
  With Stefanie Lapka
  Wed 10/20, 12 – 1 pm
  Recording

After this session, you will be able to use EndNote Online to create an account, utilize plug-ins, add and organize references, and cite while you write.

This session will be recorded and archived in the UH Institutional Repository.

Please contact Rachel Helbing at rrhelbin@central.uh.edu with any questions.

The first session in our fall webinar series is coming up this Wednesday. Please join us for this lunch & learn session to be held on Zoom.

• Systematic Reviews 101
  With Rachel Helbing
  Wed 9/22, 12 – 1 pm
  Recording

After this session, you will be able to identify and understand the steps in a systematic review, from formulating a research question to synthesizing results.

This session will be recorded and archived in the UH Institutional Repository.

Please contact Rachel Helbing at rrhelbin@central.uh.edu with any questions.

We hope you can join us for our fall webinar series. Please save the dates for the three lunch & learn sessions to be held on Zoom on Wednesdays in September, October, and November.

• Systematic Reviews 101
  With Rachel Helbing
  Wed 9/22, 12 – 1 pm
  Recording
• EndNote 101
  With Stefanie Lapka
  Wed 10/20, 12 – 1 pm
  Recording
• Copyright 101
  With Dave Fagundes
  Wed 11/17, 12 – 1 pm
  Recording

More details are forthcoming. Sessions will be recorded and archived in the UH Institutional Repository.

Please contact Rachel Helbing at rrhelbin@central.uh.edu with any questions.