Got a systematic review that needs doing, but don’t know where to start? 

Need to get your references in order, but don’t know your Endnote from your Mendeley?

Search strategies not giving you what you need?

We can help! Just book in for one of the following sessions: 

?         Managing Your Bibliography

 How to take the bile out of your bibliography, and ensure that it’s not the most time-consuming part of your work. A variety of tools will be showcased: EndNote, EndNoteWeb, Zotero, Mendeley

?         PubMed and EndNoteWeb – A Match Made in Heaven!

 his course aims to familiarise students with searching in PubMed effectively and efficiently using a variety of techniques (freetext, MeSH etc). Participants will learn how to manage their references and set up regular alerts on a topic, to import their references into EndNoteWeb, and to create and manipulate a bibliography.

?         Systematic Literature Reviews – A ‘How To’ Guide

 Before undertaking any piece of primary research it’s important to be aware of as much of the existing literature as possible. A systematic literature review can also be a research end in itself. And it’s not something to be taken lightly. But how can you be sure you’re being as rigorous as necessary? How can you manage the references you find, document the process, and also know when to stop searching?

?         The “Big Four” Databases For Your Literature Search

One session – four medicine and life science databases – widest coverage for your literature search. PubMed is great, but it doesn’t cover all the journals relevant to life sciences and medicine. Embase, Web of Science and Scopus can also be relevant and each covers unique material. Come to this hands-on session to learn how to get the best from each of these “4 tops”.