Description
This course builds on the course “Basics in Literature Searching: 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