Simultaneously searching Medline, PsycInfo, Embase: the Ovid platform (24F04221)
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Course Information
- Date
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Thursday, April 3, 2025,
2:00 PM till 4:00 PM - Registration Opens
- December 1, 2024
- Registration Deadline
- March 26, 2025, 8:00 AM
- Course Fees
- kostenlos
- Trainer
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PD Dr. Christian Appenzeller-Herzog
- Organized by
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University Medical Library
CH-4051 Basel
Tel. 061 207 32 46
info-medb@unibas.ch
Content
This course on OVID® builds on the course “Basics in Literature Search with PubMed and Other Resources”. It will introduce you to this unibas-licensed search platform that covers several of the relevant bibliographic databases (e.g. Medline, Embase, and PsycInfo). Accordingly, instead of laborious inter-database translations (e.g. from PubMed to Embase), your search strategy in OVID® can be transformed into additional database queries essentially by one click. The session includes a presentation and a guided practical online query.
Contents:
- Basics in literature searching
- Searching with thesaurus/subject headings
- Searching with text words
- Proximity operators
- Towards systematic searching
- Advantages and drawbacks of concomitant searches in several databases (including deduplication)
- Saving and managing searches
- Export of references and access to full texts
Target Group
Anyone interested in learning how to navigate searching in Ovid: e.g. students, researchers and medical staff/clinicians.
Requirements
Basic knowledge of database searching (corresponding to the content of the course "Basics in Literature Searching: PubMed and Other Resources" 24H04212c, which is publicly advertised and taught to medical students as a lecture in the 5th semester).