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Searching Systematically

Searching Systematically Online

Outline

The aim of this workshop is to teach the skills for developing a research question, searching, selecting and managing the best available evidence to answer that research question, according to a defined, planned and consistent method.

CPD

RCSI 3.0 CPD credit,  NMBI 4.0 CEUs

Learning Outcomes

1. Develop a good research question
2. Describe your question using a recognized template such as PICO
3. Select appropriate resources (Books, book chapters, databases, websites, unpublished theses etc).
4. Build awareness of functionalities such as controlled vocabulary, Boolean logic, synonyms, language, spelling within resources.
5. Develop a search strategy (thesauri/free text searching, broaden/narrow searches).
6. Explore exhaustive searching techniques (related items, reference lists, hand searching, internet searching, search engines).
7. Select papers using inclusion/exclusion criteria (look at abstracts, results, methods, etc).
8. Create accounts to save searches and set up a personal library to produce a bibliography.
9. Manage results using a reference management system

Related LibGuide: Searching systematically by Gabriel Graves

Date:
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Time:
10:00am - 1:30pm
Time Zone:
UK, Ireland, Lisbon Time (change)
Online:
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Audience:
  HSE Staff & Authorised Library Users  
Categories:
  Information Skills Training  
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Event Organizer

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Helen Clark

Librarian

Sligo University Hospital

helen.clark@hse.ie

 

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