Simultaneously searching Medline, PsycInfo, Embase: the Ovid platform (24H04221) ONLINE

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 searching e.g. in the PubMed database (corresponding to the content of "Basics in Literature Search: PubMed and Other Resources")

Feature

A link will be sent some days before the course (zoom)