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Systematic Searching for Veterinary Reviews@HSL In-Person

Are you doing a veterinary literature search for your thesis or dissertation, or writing a review article?  Wondering if your search retrieved all the relevant literature?  In this introductory, hands-on workshop you will learn about:

  • Types of reviews such as systematic, scoping and narrative reviews
  • How to develop a searchable question
  • Pros/cons of veterinary literature databases CAB Abstracts, Web of Science, PubMed
  • Best practice techniques for comprehensive searches:
    • Broaden and focus searches
    • Subject heading searching
    • Reference and cited reference searching
    • Grey literature
  • Exporting search results to EndNote
  • Reporting guidelines – PRISMA
  • Deciding where to publish

This workshop is a combination of lecture and hands-on search practice.

Pre-requisites: None.

Related LibGuide: Veterinary Medicine by Health Sciences Library

Date:
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Time:
9:30am - 11:30am
Time Zone:
Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
HSL 1460A
Campus:
Health Sciences
Categories:
  Database Training     Literature Searching     MyGradSkills  
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