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Effective database searching: MEDLINE / OVID SP (Location: Cruciform Hub)

18 March 2019, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm

MEDLINE is one of the largest bibliographic databases in biomedicine and health including life sciences, behavioural sciences, chemical sciences and bioengineering.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

UCL Cruciform Hub

Location

Cruciform Hub Small Cluster B.1.15B
Cruciform Building
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

Location: Cruciform Hub. This 1-hour session aims to give you the ability to carry out a literature search on MEDLINE / OVID SP effectively and find articles and evidence to help answer your research questions. It will also give you a good understanding on how to search effectively other databases provided through OVID SP such as EMBASE and PsycINFO.

Learning objectives:

  • Introduction to the databases available through OVID SP
  • Constructing an effective search strategy
  • Searching for the evidence
  • printing, saving results and saving search strategies

This course is open to UCL students and staff in a biomedical discipline who are primarily based across UCL's Bloomsbury campus.