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In this segment of the Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Sciences Literature series, you will learn that systematic reviews are a type of scientific study and compare a search conducted for an evidence synthesis project to a basic literature search.
In this segment of the Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Sciences Literature series, you will learn how systematic reviews are conducted, how librarians can be collaborators on these projects, and the resources necessary to successfully complete a publishable project.
In this segment of the Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Sciences Literature series, you will learn how to locate and evaluate existing reviews that are relevant to your topic and how to set alerts.
In this segment of the Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Sciences Literature series, you will learn how to conduct a scoping search of the literature to determine if there are sufficient studies available for your evidence synthesis project.
In this segment of the Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Sciences Literature series, you will learn what subject headings are, how to locate them, and the role they play in a high-quality literature search.
In this segment of the Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Sciences Literature series, you will learn how to create a search strategy with keywords and what role limits and filters can play in the search process.
In this segment of the Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Sciences Literature series, you will learn how to create searches in Ovid, Ovid-specific syntax, and search tools like truncation, wildcards, and adjacency in Ovid databases.
In this segment of the Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Sciences Literature series, you will learn how to leverage advanced searching strategies in Web of Science and Scopus.
In this segment of the Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Sciences Literature series, you will learn how to apply filters and hedges to make your searching more efficient.
In this segment of the Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Sciences Literature series, you will learn how to test the performance of your search strategy and discover additional useful studies.
In this segment of the Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Sciences Literature series, you will learn how to complement your search of the journal literature with publications that fall outside of traditional academic publishing.
This video introduces the "MeSH analysis grid" and demonstrates how to use the Yale MeSH Analyzer (http://mesh.med.yale.edu/) to automatically create a MeSH analysis grid. The MeSH analysis grid helps identify the reason why some known relevant articles are missing in the initial search result set, and serves as a "scoping search" tool to help identify potential new search terms and phrases.
