Research & Learning Connection

Welcome to the UTHSC Health Sciences Library's Research & Learning Connection (RLC) where you will find resources and tools combined with services to help advance your research. Feature services include:

• Systematic Reviews - partner with a lilaison librarian with expertise and training on systematic reviews; 
• Research Impact - ask a liaison librarian to quantify your research impact for promotion, tenure, or grant applications;
• Expert Literature Search - contact the library for an expert search of the library databases on any topic;
• EndNote Guide - streamline the organization of your references and write your paper in the desired style; 
• Information Consultation - meet one-on-one with a liaison librarian about a research project and advise how to use specific resources, such as PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, or ClinicalKey. 

A JAMA article, published  on September 10, 2014, asked authors to systematically review the literature and recommended authors collaborating with medical librarians when writing review articles. The reason was "extensive literature searches can be difficult to perform, given the complexity of the search process and author's time constrains. It's also unlikely that a content expert will be familiar with the intricacies of more than one database."