(via Jules Bailey, Florida State University)
Registration is open for the next ACRL Health Sciences Interest Group Friday Forum, “Advanced Search for Evidence Synthesis”. It will take place on Friday, May 3, from 12:00 to 1:30 PM CDT.
Presenters:
Jules Bailey, Health Sciences Librarian at Florida State University
Dr. Howard Rodriguez-Mori, Associate Professor of Library and Information Services at the Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine
In this session, attendees will learn:
- How to start your search using seminal articles
- Selecting databases
- Controlled vocabulary (e.g., MeSH and Emtree) and keywords
- Search translation
- Keeping track of your searches
- Refining / improving your searches
- Considerations for searching the grey literature
- Snowballing / citation chasing
- Communicating with the researcher