UCSF Library’s Education and Research Librarian experts provide guidance on discovering resources and services that help you find and manage the information you need for your education, research, and/or clinical care.
Starting points
Meet our literature search experts
We’re here to help. You can book a consultation or one-on-one instruction session.
Peggy Tahir, MLIS
Peggy has worked as a librarian in academic medicine, hospitals, and the NIH. She consults on systematic reviews, searching the literature, information management, and copyright.
Josephine Tan, MLIS
Josephine is an education and research librarian. She teaches curriculum-integrated literature searching skills and specializes in medical education research.
Nora Franco, MSIS
Nora is a clinical research librarian. She provides teaching and research services to our diverse and distributed campus community with a focus on clinical support for staff at Zuckerberg SF General (ZSFG).
Leia Casey, MLIS
Leia is an education and research librarian. She provides teaching and research services to our diverse and distributed campus community with a focus on the School of Nursing.
Eileen Chen, MLIS
Eileen is an education and research librarian. She offers support with searching the literature, scoping and systematic reviews, and citation management.
Holly Thompson, MSLIS
Holly provides consultations and customized instruction sessions for employees and learners at BCH Oakland, while also meeting the clinical research support needs of the UCSF Benioff Oakland campus.
Library instruction sessions
Do you teach a course? We can create custom instructional sessions for your group on a variety of topics. Let us know what you need.
We’re here to help
Contact us or search the Help Center for answers to frequently asked questions on searching the literature. Also see our hand-curated guides on a range of subjects.
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