Literature Searching with PubMed - Advanced (24H04213c)
ONLINE
Course Information
- Date
-
Wednesday, October 23, 2024,
2:00 PM till 4:00 PM - Registration Opens
- August 1, 2024
- Registration Deadline
- October 22, 2024, 4:00 PM
- Trainer
-
Dr. Thomas Fürst
- Organized by
-
Universitätsbibliothek Medizin
Spiegelgasse 5
CH-4051 Basel
Tel. 061 207 32 46
info-medb@unibas.ch
Content
This course builds on the course “Basics in Literature Search with PubMed and Other Resources”. It will deepen and complement your knowledge on the important search functions needed for a specific and comprehensive medical literature search. You will learn to build a systematic search strategy by extracting keywords (MeSH) and text words from references. Tips and tricks, as well as saving and exporting search strategies and search results will be shared.
Contents:
- Defining questions; Boolean search operators (AND, OR, NOT); contents of PubMed
- Thesaurus; search with Medical Subject Headings (with exercises)
- Search with text words and field search; truncating (with exercises)
- Combining MeSH and text-word searches (with exercises)
- Saving and managing searches; personal settings, alert services
- Export of references and access to full texts via SFX
Target Group
Students and researchers of the medical faculty, medical staff and Members of Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute have priority
Requirements
Course "Basics Literature Searching" (teached during POEM as well)