This session covers techniques and tools to test and refine literature database searches for systematic reviews: - Use of known and eligible publications to test for recall - Sampling intermediate…

This recording of a Dissertation Festival session provides an introduction to searching for literature on Medline using the Ovid interface. Medline is a database of over 25 million records of medical…

The PRESS checklist is designed to facilitate peer review of comprehensive database searches for systematic reviews. This workshop covered how to interpret and apply checklist items, and offered some…

Recording of a Library Bitesize session on an introduction to searching for literature on Medline using the Ovid interface. Medline is a database of over 26 million records of medical literature…

Demonstrates how to save a Search History in the Ebsco and Ovid platforms . This provides a reference for writing up a review methodology as it provides details of the databases searched, the search…

Demonstrates how to search more than one database at once in search platforms from which University of Edinburgh has bought multiple databases. Includes deduplication of results.

Using the Search History to build a search strategy CINAHL Plus for the Ebsco platform and MEDLINE for the Ovid platform.

Demonstration of subject heading searches in CINAHL (on Ebsco platform), MEDLINE and psycINFO (both on Ovid platform). Explaining the use of subject headings for keyword searching.