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Library Essentials for Administrative Assistants

In Library Essentials for Administrative Assistants you will learn to search for important information available from the Research Medical Library including full-text articles, citations, books and conference proceedings. This 2-hour course covers essential skills for Administrative Assistants to be able to manage their faculty publications.

The class is open to all interested institutional members. The Library Essentials Class will be now conducted during a 2 hour class session.


Classroom location:

*Pickens Academic Tower; FCT21.6008
*South Campus; 4SCR1.1125.

How to register:

All classes are free, but please register by clicking on the specific class on the calendar below. If you need assistance with registration, please contact April Aultman Becker avaultman@mdanderson.org, 713-792-2293.

Class resources:

Library Essentials for Administrative Assistants – Class Support Material

PMCIDs & NIH Public Access Policy

Navigating to Full Text

Webinar Archive

Library Essentials for Administrative Assistants:

  • Part 1:
    Introduction to Library databases and how to identify various types of citations.
    Click here
  • Part 2:
    Searching for PubMed Citations, distinguishing between PMIDs and PMCIDs, using My NCBI, and setting up automatic email updates.
    Click here
  • Part 3:
    Using Web of Science to search for Conference Proceedings and performing a cited reference search.
    Click here

Class Calendar (Click on a class to register to attend )