ECTS: 0.3
Course leader: Janne Lytoft Simonsen
Language: Danish
Graduate school: Faculty of Health
Course fee: 360.00 DKK
Status: Course is finished
Semester: Fall 2022
Application deadline: 03/10/2022
Cancellation deadline: 17/10/2022
Course type: Classroom teaching
Start date: 01/11/2022
Administrator: Johanne Gregor Nielsen
Only for Research Year students
This course is for Research Year students. Please notice the equivalent course for PhD students: A137 Literature search in medical databases. If you sign on as a PhD student, the administrator will remove you from the list.
The course A88/81 Systematic Literature Search (Research-year) is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, fall 2022.
Criteria for participation: Research-year students or Research Honours Programme students
Aim:
To make the research year students familiar with the most important medical databases, and enable them to perform qualified searches for relevant scholarly literature. Participants will be introduced to systematic literature searching as well as citation searching and reference management.
Learning outcomes:
At the end of the course, the participants will be able to build a systematic search strategy and select relevant information sources and search terms. Furthermore, participants will be able to navigate common medical databases and be familiar with the concept of reference management software in general and EndNote in particular.
Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 7 hours.
Content:
Structure and content of relevant databases will be reviewed. For the systematic literature search, 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. For the presentation of citation searching, Web of Science and Scopus will be used to illustrate the characteristics of this search technique. EndNote will be used to introduce the different features and uses of a reference management software. Furthermore, the course will touch on what to consider when starting a literature search and research impact measures exemplified by Journal Impact Factor. The lessons will alternate between theory and hands-on exercises where participants can search for literature for their own project.
Instructors: Karen Rodríguez Sigaard, MLIS, and Janne Lytoft Simonsen, MSc, PhD, AU Library Health Sciences
Venue: TheVictor Albeck bygningen 1266, Vennelyst Boulevard 4, Aarhus C
Participation in the course is without cost for:
- Research Year students and Research Honours Programme students from Aarhus University
Course dates:
- 01 November 2022 08:30 - 15:30