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AI tools for searching and sifting the literature

This session will support you to: Understand what generative AI tools are, their pros and cons, and how to use them to support academic work. Use AI tools designed to search for…

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Using GenAI to Improve Your Literature Searching Skills

This session will introduce you to the basics of using generative AI to help with conducting a literature search, including generating search terms and finding research papers. It will cover the pros…

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Introduction to the Library and literature searching (MSc Digital Education)

An introduction to the Library for MSc Digital Education students. Presentation slides available to download in attachments section below.

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Introduction to finding and accessing patents literature (Library Bitesize 2024)

Patents can be a unique and invaluable source of information on new technologies. This session provides a half-hour overview of finding and accessing patent literature.

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Library Bitesize: Introduction to Embase

This session is an introduction to searching for literature on Embase using the Ovid interface. Embase is a major pharmacological and biomedical literature database with records from more than 8,500…

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Using ELM to recommend academic databases

A short tutorial video about how to use the University of Edinburgh’s internal AI tool, ELM, to recommend academic databases. This video may be particularly useful if you are new to studying…

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Using ELM to recommend scholarly journals

A short tutorial video about how to use the University of Edinburgh’s internal AI tool, ELM, to recommend scholarly journals. If you're new to your academic field and looking for…

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Finding scholarly literature by authors from specific countries

A short tutorial video about how to use the Web of Science database to find literature by authors from specific countries. This activity can support students aiming to increase the diversity of…

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Introduction to the University Library for PG Online students

An introduction to the University Library for online postgraduate students within SPS. This presentation is split into 3 sections: An introduction to Library Resources Guidance in conducting an more…

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Library Bitesize: Introduction to CINAHL

See attachments tab for a copy of the presentation slides. This session is an introduction to searching for literature in CINAHL. CINAHL is a major literature database for nursing and allied…

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Library Bitesize: Searching grey literature for reviews and evidence synthesis

This session provides an overview of grey literature sources and some aspects to consider while integrating grey literature in your evidence synthesis or literature review. We demonstrate a practical…

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Library Bitesize: Introduction to Scopus

This session is an introduction to searching for literature on Scopus. The Scopus database indexes articles from 25,100+ journals in health, biomedicine, life sciences, technology, and social…

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Library Bitesize: Translating literature search strategies across multiple databases

Recording of Library Bitesize: Translating literature search strategies across multiple databases, 26/04/2024 Please note, the very start of this session was not captured by the recording. As such,…

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Expert searches for systematic reviews - databases via Ovid (Dissertation and Thesis Festival)

Presenter: Rani Darbar (Wolters Kluwer) This webinar covers intermediate and advanced search techniques for literature databases available via the Ovid platform, such as Medline, Embase, PsycInfo,…

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Drug-related content in Embase: Getting the best from Embase (Dissertation and Thesis Festival)

Presenter: Yvonne van de Vrede (Wolters Kluwer) This webinar addresses how to make the most of Embase on the Ovid platform, especially for comprehensive searches needed in systematic or scoping…

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Research Process (Week 8): Desk-Based Reviews as Dissertations - Database Searching presentation

Research Process (Week 8): Desk-Based Reviews as Dissertations - Database Searching presentation This recorded presentation has been developed for the Research Process course delivered to MSc…

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