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Training offered by Ebsco for May 2024

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 Ebsco offer a range of training webinars for users of their main databases. Sessions are delivered as webinars, please sign-up online:

Creating Alerts in CINAHL and MEDLINE (45 mins)

This session will demonstrate how to keep current with the healthcare literature using search and publications alerts on the EBSCOhost interface.

•       Thursday, 23rd May @ 10.00am

Systematic Searching in MEDLINE on EBSCOhost (60 mins)

This session will introduce advanced search concepts for searching MEDLINE. In this session we will look at developing a complex search strategy, incorporating wildcards and proximity search operators, running freetext and MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) searches, and applying available filters to focus search results.

•  Thursday, 9th May @ 10.00am 

•  Tuesday, 21st May @ 10.00am 

Supporting Systematic Reviews using EBSCOhost Part 1

This 60-minute session will introduce the concepts of searching the healthcare literature to support systematic reviews from initial framing of a question, to demonstrate searching using one example of a framework – PICO - searching both keywords and subject terms for CINAHL and MEDLINE on the EBSCOhost interface. Part 2 will look at how to process results using bibliographic software and personal folders.

•  Tuesday, 7th May @ 2.30pm 

Supporting Systematic Reviews using EBSCOhost Part 2

This 60-minute session will introduce options for managing search results after searching the literature on CINAHL and MEDLINE, in support of systematic reviews. This session will look at available options including using personal Folders to store and retrieve searches and references exporting to bibliographic software, such as EndNote and RefWorks.

•  Wednesday, 22nd May @ 10.00am 

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