Course Literature search in medical databases (Language English)

ECTS: 0.7

Course leader: Annette Balle Sørensen

Language: English

Graduate school: Faculty of Health

Course fee: 840.00 DKK

Status: Course is finished

Semester: Spring 2021

Application deadline: 09/02/2021

Cancellation deadline: 23/02/2021

Course type: Classroom teaching

Start date: 09/03/2021

Administrator: Johanne Gregor Nielsen

PhD students

Please notice the equivalent course for research year medical students: A88 (Research-year) Systematic Literature Search.

NB Online

Due to the COVID-19 restrictions this course will be held online.

Title: Literature search in medical databases

Reg.no: A137/36

is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, spring 2021.

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

Place: Online. You will get an email with a Zoom link 2 weeks before the course starts.

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

Course dates:

  • 09 March 2021 08:30 - 16:00