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Conducting an Efficient Literature Search: Home

This guide is for faculty, residents, and fellows undertaking literature reviews. It covers key sources for literature reviews as well as reference management.

About this guide

This page contains learning materials for literature searching workshops for WCM and NYP fellows, residents, and faculty. 

Learning outcomes

After today’s session, you should be able to: ​

  • Get full text of articles through Wood Library subscriptions​
  • Use advanced search techniques to find relevant literature in PubMed​
  • Identify, obtain, and locate training on reference management software such as EndNote
  • Use Google Scholar to supplement a PubMed search
  • Identify additional relevant databases for literature searching

Today's plan

  • Icebreaker: In the collaborative Google Doc, post a research question or topic you're currently working on (or interested in)
  • Brief lecture​
    • How to get full text
  • Searching PubMed (lecture + search activity)​
  • Brief lecture/demos
    • Reference management
    • Google Scholar
    • Other databases
    • (Time permitting) Hands-on practice
  • Time for Q&A

Session evaluation

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