Literature searching using PubMed

To book a place please email library.skills@ucl.ac.uk. This session is also part of the Doctoral School Skills Development programme. Postgraduate research students at UCL should book a place by logging in via the programme website.

This session aims to give you the ability to carry out a literature search on PubMed effectively and find articles and evidence to help answer your research questions

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

• Run an effective literature search independently
• Understand what MeSH terms are and why they are used
• Understand the importance of the 'Details' link
• Filter out evidence based literature
• Print, save and email your references
• Save your search
• Take advantage of features of the PubMed site