ECTS: 0.7
Course leader: Annette Balle Sørensen
Language: English
Graduate school: Faculty of Health
Status: Course is finished
Semester: Fall 2020
Application deadline: 08/09/2020
Cancellation deadline: 22/09/2020
Start date: 06/10/2020
Administrator: Johanne Gregor Nielsen
Title: Literature search in medical databases
Reg.no: A137/34
is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, fall 2020.
Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or Master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).
Please notice the equivalent course for research year medical students: A88 (Research-year) Systematic Literature Search.
Aim: To make the participants familiar with the most important medical databases, and enable them to perform qualified searches for relevant scholarly literature.
Learning outcomes:
- To enable the participants to perform qualified searches, systematic as well as citation searches, in relevant medical databases.
- To introduce the participants to methods of scientific quality measurements, thus enabling them to understand the basic principles of research evaluation.
- To present a brief overview of different aspects related to research publication such as ORCID, Forskerportalen.dk, Copyright etc.
- To introduce the basic concept of reference management programs in general and – if requested – to make the participants familiar with the specific reference management program EndNote. The lessons will alternate between theory and exercises at the computer.
Contents: Structure and content of the databases will be reviewed. With respect to literature searching, emphasis will be on PubMed and Embase, and the participants will learn to construct precise search strings by employing the tools (e.g. MeSH) of the databases. The focal point of the introduction to Web of Science and Scopus will be cited reference searches. In continuation of this, issues of “What is scientific quality, and can it be measured?” (‘impact factor’, H-index, research registration, etc.) will be discussed. Furthermore, relevant apps, e-books as well as topics such as ORCID and Copyright will be briefly presented. Finally, reference management programs (EndNote) will be introduced.
Recommended knowledge for participation: Master’s degree
Language: In English if non-native speakers are present, otherwise in Danish
ECTS: 0,70
Head of Course: Annette Balle Sørensen, MSc, PhD, Senior Adviser
Instructors: Janne Lytoft Simonsen, MSc, PhD, Research Librarian and Annette Balle Sørensen, MSc, PhD, Senior Adviser, AU Library, Health Sciences, Aarhus University.
Number of participants: 24
Dates and times: 6 October 2020 from 9:00 – 16:00
Place: Loftsalen (1266-316), The Victor Albeck Building, Vennelyst Blvd. 4, 8000 Aarhus
Course fee: DKK 840
Participation in the course is without cost for:
- PhD students, Research Year students and Research Honours Programme students from Aarhus University
- PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
- PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses
Application deadline: 8 September 2020
Application: https://service.health.au.dk/modules/Course/mypage/coursecalendar.
Course dates:
- 06 October 2020