Quick Start Research Toolkit

The Quick Start Research Toolkit is designed to rapidly orient Stanford students, staff, and faculty to key library resources, tools, and services. Based on a Lane Library workshop of the same name, the guide is built around a core set of research tasks: from the basics of how to find books, journals and articles; to tips for exploring databases like PubMed and Web of Science; to tools that support writing and publishing.

After going through this guide, you should be able to

• Efficiently locate and use library materials and services
• Identify strategies for increasing the impact of your research
• Organize your citations/PDFs and generate bibliographies with Zotero
• Better utilize the search features of Pubmed
• Confidently explore databases beyond PubMed and get better search results from Google
• Utilize some of Lane’s biomedical image tools
• Explore a variety of resources for keeping current

For upcoming live sessions of the Quick Start Research Toolkit, see the list of upcoming classes below.

To request an on-demand version of this workshop for your research group, cohort, etc, contact your Library Liaison.