Course content - Learning outcome - Admission - Prerequisites - Teaching - Examination - Evaluation

Course content

This course gives an introduction to systematic literature search and how to use EndNote or Reference Manager.

How to create a search strategy and choose the relevant databases. Special focus on searching Medline, The Cochrane Library and ISI Web of Science. Hands on exercises.

How to use EndNote or Reference Manager to build a personal reference database and publish your manuscript. Downloading of references from Medline/PubMed, The Cochrane Library, ISI Web of Science and other sources. Generating a manuscript and a bibliography for publishing in Vancouver, APA, Harvard and other bibliographic formats. Hands on exercises.

Learning outcome

The participants will be familiar with the principles for systematic literature search and be able to plan and perform literature searches efficiently, exemplified by searching Medline, The Cochrane Library and ISI Web of Science. Participants will be familiar with the key functions of EndNote or Reference Manager, a program for storing, retrieving and formatting references.

Admission

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Ph.D. candidates and students at the Medical Student Research Programme will get first priority to the course. Maximum number of particpants is 24.

The StudentWeb is open for registration from 1st June until 1st September for the autumn semester and 1st December until 1st February for the spring semester.

Registration for applicants without access to the Studentweb - 1st December until 1st February

Applicants will be notified by e-mail 1-2 weeks after the final date for registration, if they have been granted admission.

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Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

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Teaching

The course is taught on the following date spring 2013:

14th March (Literature search and Reference Manager/EndNote)

Course literature:
Haraldstad AMB, Christophersen E. Literature search and personal reference databases. In: Laake P, Olsen B, Benestad H, eds. Research methodology in the medical and biological sciences. Amsterdam: Elsevier, Academic Press, 2007: 125-160

Location:
PC-room 2nd floor Domus Medica

The course is also taugth in Norwegian:
MF9240 Litteratursøk og personlige referansedatabaser

NB! You have to participate in at least 80 % of the teaching. Attendance at lectures will be registered.

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Examination

The will be no course exam, but participation on the whole course is required.

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Explanations and appeals

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Students can request an explanation of their grades, and can also appeal against their grades or make a complaint about formal examination errors. Read more about explanations and appeals

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