December 08, 2023
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
Your upcoming CeRIS training
• Remote training: How to retrieve relevant results with PubMed on Monday December 18, 2023 from 2 to 5pm* (in English)
PubMed can appear to be a simple, intuitive tool, but there are a number of techniques, features and tips that can help you boost the efficacy of your searches.
Have you heard of Automatic Term Mapping and Medical Subject Headings? How do Boolean operators and truncation work? Do you already have a My NCBI account to personalize your filters and save your searches?
The Scientific Information Resources Center (CeRIS) is running a training course that combines a general overview with practical applications to help you get to grips with these techniques and save time with your searches.
Aims of the training:
• Identify the features that make PubMed a powerful database
• Learn specific techniques to improve the relevance of your search results
• Use the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) database to boost your searches by subject in PubMed
• Create and configure a personal My NCBI account to personalize your PubMed features and save effective search settings
This training is aimed at people who need to carry out occasional or regular literature searches in the PubMed database.
It is suitable for beginners and also for users who have taught themselves the basics of PubMed and want to learn how to make better use of its potential.
It will take place remotely (via Microsoft Teams) in English.
Sign up
More information : biblioformation@pasteur.fr
• In-person training: Finding a data repository to share and give visibility to your research data on Wednesday January 17, 2024 from 2 to 4pm and Wednesday January 24 from 2 to 3.30pm* (in English)
Do you want to publish the raw data related to a research paper? Is the funding body for your project asking you to share your data based on the principle "as open as possible, as closed as necessary"? Do you want to make your data available to the scientific community to improve the reproducibility of your research?
Data repositories are the most efficient solution to meet your needs: depending on the repository you choose, you can make your data openly accessible or subject to controlled access. And there's nothing better than a training course to help you find your way around the many repositories out there!
The course will help you to:
• understand how data repositories work and what they are for;
• find a repository that meets your needs;
• draw up a comparative list of different repositories.
Combining theory and practice, the training course takes place over two sessions. Between the sessions you will have the opportunity to analyze and test a repository and to ask the trainer any questions via Teams.
The training is aimed at any scientists who produce data and want to share their data via repositories.
Before you sign up:
• Make sure you will be able to take part in both sessions.
• The maximum number of participants is 8, spaces will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Sign up
More information : biblioformation@pasteur.fr
* Paris time