Literature Searching - Finding the Evidence

PLEASE NOTE: This session is for UKHSA employees and those who were employed by PHE pre-Transition.

If you work in a Local Authority Public Health Team please visit https://ukhsalibrary.koha-ptfs.co.uk/laph/ for information on services available for you.

Objectives

By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Prepare an answerable search question.
• Formulate a search strategy.
• Apply a search strategy to a bibliographic database (e.g. Medline).
• Use appropriate syntax (e.g. truncation, wildcards, Boolean operators).
• Have increased confidence in using bibliographic databases to identify evidence to address a search question.

Content

• Planning and defining your search question
• Creating your search strategy
• Interactive: Creating your own search strategy
• Identifying available sources
• Inputting search terms and applying limits and filters
• Assessing and amending your results
• Saving your search history and search results
• Obtaining full-text
• Interactive: Apply this knowledge to a bibliographic database