Leslie Gascon

Leslie Gascon (she/her/hers), MBA, MS(LIS), AHIP, is the Public Health & Collection Librarian of the University of Washington (UW) Health Sciences Library (HSL). She educates and assists UW faculty, students, staff, and researchers to identify, manage, and evaluate information. She primarily works with the School of Public Health (SPH).

To find your librarian, see the Health Sciences Liaison Librarians or the UW Libraries Subject Librarians webpages. 

• Contact Leslie directly via email with your question or schedule a virtual consultation. 
• Reach out via Ask Us for 24/7 assistance from skilled librarians who will provide immediate assistance or forward your request as needed. 
• Review the Public Health Toolkit. 

General Resources:

• Health Sciences Library Website
• ORCID, a persistent digital identifier that you own and control
• Ordering Articles not within the UW Libraries' Collections
• Public Health Toolkit
• UW Libraries Search (find books, journals, and more) 
• Writing Resources 

For Students:

• Consultation (e.g., finding primary and secondary sources, evaluating information, citation management)

  • Discuss via email 
  • Schedule a virtual meeting 

• Course Reserves

• Printing

For Faculty & Researchers:

• Classroom Demonstration (e.g., Intro to the Library, Advanced Database Searching)

  • Discuss via email 
  • Schedule a virtual meeting 
  • Canvas: Add Leslie as a Librarian prior to class 

• Consultation (e.g., research planning, advanced searching, predatory publishing, open access)

  • Discuss via email 
  • Schedule a virtual meeting 

• Endnote Citation Management

• Systematic Reviews

Resources Leslie frequently references and shares: 

• Anti-racism 

  • Shanda Hunt and Amy Riegelman's Guide: Conducting research through an anti-racism lens 
  • Stacy Collins' Guide: Anti-Oppression 

• Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT

  • PB&J example
  • Julie Nanavati's video: Basics of Searching (example in PubMed)

• Citation management

  • Software comparison
  • Assistance 

• Data

  • Finding Data guide 

• Evaluating information quality

  • Help guides 

• Google 

  • Advanced search 
  • Set up your library in Google Scholar 

Database Resources

• Embase 

  • Help guide 
  • Recommend PICO search tab to add synonyms 
  • Wildcards 

• PubMed 

  • Help guide
  • Search fields 
    • Often recommend Text Words [TW] or Title/Abstract [TIAB] (both search author keywords)
  • Wildcards 
  • Instructional video series 
  • Un-validated search strategies 
    • Black Americans and racial disparities/racism, 2021 (update unknown)
    • Health disparities search, 2019 (no longer updated) 

• Web of Science 

  • Help guide 
  • Search fields 
    • Recommend using Topic, TS=(), to search keywords in title, abstract, and keywords
  • Wildcards 
  • Proximity operators 

• Other databases 

  • Help guides

The Health Sciences Library Mission is to advance scholarship, research, education, and health care by anticipating information needs, providing essential resources, and facilitating learning for the greater health sciences community.

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