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Featured Courses

Fundamentals of Searching in Bibliographic Databases

Beginner

4 weeks
2,156 enrolled4.9/5.0

Course Modules:

  • Introduction - What is this course all about?
  • Why Search Systematically?
  • Research Questions: PICO or the building blocks method
  • Aspects of Research Questions
  • Thesaurus Terms
  • Free Text Terms
  • Truncation (pros and cons)
  • Boolean Operators

How to search in PubMed - The Most Widely Used Database in the World

Beginner

3 weeks
1,879 enrolled4.9/5.0

Course Modules:

  • Introduction to PubMed
  • MeSH terms
  • Tiab terms
  • Phrasing and nesting words
  • Search Filters
  • Search demonstration start to finish
  • Common mistakes & FAQs

Systematic Review Fundamentals

Beginner

6 weeks
1,234 enrolled4.8/5.0

Course Modules:

  • Introduction to Systematic Reviews
  • Protocol Development
  • Search Strategy Design
  • Study Selection
  • Data Extraction
  • Quality Assessment

Advanced Techniques - Going Beyond PubMed to Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane, Scopus, CINAHL

Advanced

8 weeks
734 enrolled4.8/5.0

Course Modules:

  • Introduction to Advanced Search Techniques
  • Overview of the different types of Databases and their specialty
  • Translating PubMed Searches to Other databases
  • Show the interphase of each of these databases and insert search blocks
  • Techniques for Efficient Literature Deduplication
  • Citation chasing / Snowballing
  • Updating Systematic Reviews: Strategies for Updating Systematic Searches
  • Reporting the Search Strategies in a Published Journal

Meta-Analysis Masterclass

Advanced

8 weeks
645 enrolled4.7/5.0

Course Modules:

  • Statistical Foundations
  • Effect Size Calculation
  • Heterogeneity Assessment
  • Publication Bias
  • Subgroup Analysis
  • Advanced Meta-Analysis Methods