Training sessions
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Our Search Skills Sessions give you the opportunity to learn in a small group, with plenty of hands-on practice. They are free to all library members, cater to all levels of expertise and you can come to as many sessions as you like. We can also provide individual search skills sessions. Contact us to book your place or phone us to arrange a time to suit you. Timetabled SessionsEssential Search Skills Suitable for the beginner or for a refresher. Here you will learn the real skills of searching: asking the right question, finding the best search terms, and linking the terms together to form a search strategy. You will also learn how to do a simple subject, author and journal title search on bibliographic databases such as Medline. Applying Your Search Skills This is designed for the the more advanced searcher. Using the basics from the Essential Search Skills course above, you will learn how to perform advanced searches in the key health care databases (Medline, Cinahl, Embase etc.). It really does pay off - in terms of finding the best evidence in a short time! Evidence Summaries Do you need to make clinical decisions quickly? Discover some concise and up-to-date summaries and topic reviews. Elusive Guidelines? Yes, they are often hard to find. We'll show you how to unearth a range of good quality clinical practice guidelines in under 40 minutes. Effective Use of PubMed Learn the basics of PubMed, the free Internet version of Medline. Pick up tips on how to search PubMed effectively including citation matching, clinical queries and setting up your own alerts. Introduction to the Cochrane Library Save yourself some time and effort in finding and appraising papers by tapping into this collection of high quality reviews of the best research on the effectiveness of health care interventions. Find full-text systematic reviews from the Cochrane Collaboration and more. NHS Evidence Health Information Resources (formerly National Library for Health): Resources and Searching This session will give you the opportunity to explore the wealth of resources available from NHS Evidence Health Information resources. Introduction to Electronic Journals Find what's available to you on your own desktop. A large number of electronic journals are available on the University of Oxford network. More electronic journals can be found via MyAthens with an NHS Athens username and password. Please note that some of the databases covered in the sessions are only available on the University of Oxford network, and some databases are only available to NHS staff with an NHS Athens username and password. |
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