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Description

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.

Content

• 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 publicly advertised course "Basics in Literature Searching: PubMed and Other Resources", taught to medical students in the 5th semester as a lecture.

About the Trainer

Prof. Dr. Christian Appenzeller-Herzog
Medical Information Specialist
University of Basel | University Medical Library