Literature Searching: Downloads

Downloads - leaflets and workbooks to help you!

Fold-out leaflets - handy for quick reference
Searching Techniques Word document. Please download this document if you want an overview of the literature searching process. Please note, this leaflet refers to the Dialog software when giving examples of keyword searching. Information for Ovid users can be found in the helpfiles. However, the basic principles are the same.
 
Evidence-Based Medicine/Practice - Information Resources
 
Word document. This leaflet provides an overview of evidence-based information resources, provides a hierarchy of evidence and a brief overview of how to search the Cochrane Library.
How to manage your search results

Word document. This leaflet gives an overview of how to save your searches and manage your search results within the Dialog system.

DynaMed and UptoDate - two topic review resources Word document. This leaflet gives an overview of how to use these two key topic reviews sources: they summarise primary literature (original studies).
Presentations/Posters
Click here to see a presentation on using PubMed (PowerPoint)
 
Click here to download a poster advertising ATHENS () - you may want display this in your department.
 
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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Created 29 May 2007 (in process) ; last updated 4 June 2007