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Library Support for Researchers – InfoSkills and Literature Searching: the basics to systematic review searches.

By Russell Burke · June 9, 2020 · Library, literature searching, systematic reviews, training, Uncategorized · No comments

Dear Research Degree Students (RDS) & Research Staff,

ONLINE LIBRARY SERVICES: the Library & Archives Service continues to provide all online library services & access to our online collections as normal. Plus, we have enhanced and added to our online support in areas such as: 

Literature Searching guidance & training…

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MSc Student Support – InfoSkills and Literature Searching: the basics to systematic review level searches.

By Russell Burke · June 9, 2020 · Library, literature searching, systematic reviews, training · No comments

Dear Students,

ONLINE LIBRARY SERVICES: the Library & Archives Service continues to provide all online library services & access to our online collections as normal. Plus, we have enhanced and added to our online support in areas such as: 

Literature Searching guidance & training.Accessing online readings and online research…

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Updates to MeSH terms for 2020

By Jane Falconer · October 15, 2019 · Databases, literature searching, Systematic review methodology · No comments

The US National Library of Medicine has released the edits for their medical subject headings (MeSH) for 2020. These are used to index articles added to the PubMed and Medline databases, and are also used by other databases including the Cochrane Library. The MeSH terms are updated every year to…

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NEW: MeSH terms for 2019 include Systematic Review as a publication type

By Jane Falconer · December 14, 2018 · Databases, literature searching, Systematic review methodology · No comments

As usually happens at this time of year, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) update the MeSH headings used to index their Medline/PubMed database. Full details can be found on the NLM Technical Bulletin, 425. Changes which may be of interest to LSHTM researchers have been highlighted below.
Changes…

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Infoskills a bit rusty ?

By Pamela Clarke · May 13, 2018 · literature searching, Uncategorized · No comments

… then help is at hand, to see you through your summer project. ONE hour info skills sessions will be held during the summer months just for  YOU  !

Everything you wanted to know (and more) ….about constructing a search strategy will be explained, including :

Searching databases and using operators such as…

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Constructing a literature search for a systematic review: part 3, putting your search terms together and testing their efficiency

By Jane Falconer · November 17, 2017 · Databases, Library Resources, literature searching · No comments

This is the third in a series of posts looking at how to put together a literature search for a systematic review. Part 1 looked at the preparation required before you start putting the search together and gives some background to the project and part 2 looked at how to…

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Constructing a literature search for a systematic review: part 2, choosing search terms

By Jane Falconer · October 6, 2017 · Databases, Library Resources, literature searching · No comments

This is the second in a series of posts looking at how to put together a literature search for a systematic review. Part 1 looked at the preparation required before you start putting the search together and gives some background to the project. This post looks at how to put…

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Everything you wanted to know about literature searching and were afraid to ask !!

By Pamela Clarke · May 14, 2017 · Uncategorized · No comments

Stop press, stop press !!! Everything you wanted to know about literature searching and were afraid to ask !!
Fear no more, lunch time help is now available in the Library for MSc students throughout most of May, June and July.
These sessions will help you with constructing a search strategy for…

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Even more on literature searching

By Pamela Clarke · February 26, 2017 · literature searching, Uncategorized · No comments

“Which database should I use for my topic ? “ is an all too familiar question. Luckily, help is at hand – http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/resources/databases/index.html – is a useful list of databases by subject, and for big topics such as “Public Health”, it lists the most useful…

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Help with Literature searching

By Pamela Clarke · February 26, 2017 · literature searching, Uncategorized · No comments

Confused about AND, OR, NOT, and those pesky wildcards, then don’t be. The Library can help you understand the mysteries of these Boolean Operators and assist you with conducting Efficient and Effective literature searches and systematic reviews. These can be held on a one-to-one basis, or even…

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