secrets of advanced database searching for health sciences
event date:
monday, january 20, 2025 - 9:30am to 10:30am est
event location:
online
event contact name:
val gibbons
event contact e-mail:
bring your questions, frustrations, examples to this session on advanced search skills. we will share our tips for effective database searching. whether you are wondering how you could have done it better, you are in the middle of an extensive literature search or you are planning to research an in-depth topic, this session can help.
the focus will be on searching health sciences databases including cinahl, psycinfo, pubmed/medline and embase.
learn more about:
- search syntax
- subject headings
- field searching
- saving results and search strategies
- translating strategies across databases