Do you want to explore the features of database, seen as the European ‘counterpart’ of PubMed? Do you have the feeling you can find too many or just too few scientific articles in Embase? Are the articles you find often irrelevant? Do you feel you are losing a lot of time in your literature search? Then do not hesitate to enroll.

Learning outcomes of the course

Upon completion of this course, participants will have

• an understanding of which source is most suitable for which research question and goal,
• an understanding of indexing and the assets of using the index terms while searching,
• an understanding of stemming and lemmatization,
• the skills to perform a time-efficient search for (the latest) literature,
• the skills to use this database for a systematic review,
• the skills to efficiently use the unique features of the source in order to enhance retrieval of information

Format

Blended learning (for each of the modules), entirely online

• instruction videos explaining the theory and including demo searches (approximately 1h) will be available at Ufora to watch at their own pace
• an exercise to perform at their own pace (1h)
• discussion of the exercise and question and answer session with teacher (1h) + quiz (10 min) at the end of the session

Teacher: Nele Pauwels (Information Specialist Knowledge Centre for Health Ghent)

Registration: https://webappsx.ugent.be/eventManager/events/NEXTembase