Date: Friday, February 6, 2015
Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Presenter: Emily Couvillon
Location: Street Level Classroom

There is life beyond PubMed! When a thorough review of the literature is needed, searching Embase can help you find articles that are not included in MEDLINE. With over 24 million indexed records and more than 7,600 currently indexed peer-reviewed journals, Embase is a highly versatile database covering the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present. Learn core Embase features and strategies for comprehensive searching.

Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Presenter: Emily Couvillon
Location: Street Level Classroom

Get started with RefWorks citation management software! RefWorks is a web-based citation management program that allows you to organize references in one convenient location as well as to format your paper and bibliography. This class will teach you to set up an account, import citations, build your bibliography and format your paper.

*It is highly recommended that participants in this class have experience searching PubMed or other databases, and using Microsoft Word.

Date: Thursday, February 12, 2015
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Presenter: Marianne Galati
Location: Street Level Classroom

Powerful author search and tracking tools, citation alerts and data visualization tools are all found in the Scopus database.  Scopus is a database with broad global content from more than 5000 publishers of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities, including 5.5 million worldwide conference papers, book chapters and patents. 

This is an interactive class.  Attendees will create their personal login, perform a document search, create a search alert, and explore the author analytics available through Scopus.

 Class time: 1 hr.  

Date: Thursday, February 12, 2015
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Presenter: Beatriz Varman
Location: Street Level Classroom

Have you been asked to work on a systematic review but don’t know where to start? This introductory class will give you an overview of what a systematic review is, help you define a clinical question and choose the right databases to search.

A brief overview of PRISMA Guidelines for reporting systematic reviews will be included.

Date: Monday, February 23, 2015
Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Presenter: Emily Couvillon
Location: Street Level Classroom

Get started with RefWorks citation management software! RefWorks is a web-based citation management program that allows you to organize references in one convenient location as well as to format your paper and bibliography. This class will teach you to set up an account, import citations, build your bibliography and format your paper.

*It is highly recommended that participants in this class have experience searching PubMed or other databases, and using Microsoft Word.