iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust: Introduction to searching: how to find literature on a topic in medicine and health care

An introduction to carrying out searches for literature. Librarians from the Bodleian Health Care Libraries will demonstrate how to construct a search strategy from a research question and apply it to range of library resources. By the end of this session you will be able to: describe the literature searching process and aims; build a successful search strategy; use several bibliographic databases relevant to medicine and health care; and source highly cited papers relevant to your research.

Intended Audience: Students and Researchers in the Medical Sciences Division and OUH Trust.

Date: 17 January 2023, 10:30 (Tuesday, 1st week, Hilary 2023)
Venue: Online via Microsoft Teams
Speakers: Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Outreach Librarian for NDORMS, Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Organising department: Bodleian Research and Learning Support
Organiser contact email address: usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ask/workshops#/course/ISKILL0070
Cost: Free.
Audience: Students and Researchers in the Medical Sciences Division and OUH Trust.
This talk features in the following public collections:
- Talks of interest to Oxford Ethics and Humanities
- Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust
Editors: Helen Bond, Melanie Smith