Part 2: Beyond MEDLINE: Translating Search Strategies for Knowledge Syntheses

Audience: University of Toronto graduate students and faculty engaged in health science research. UTORids will be required to participate. (if you are affiliated with UofT but do not know your UTORid, email: mikaela.gray[at]utoronto.ca). **Please register using an UofT email address eg. @utoronto.ca or @mail.utoronto.ca**

Date: Wednesday, July 14th, 2021

Time: 1:00- 3:00 (+ pre-class work)

Location: Online (Quercus + Blackboard Collaborate)

This workshop follows a flipped-classroom model, which means there is pre-class work (30-40min) that is required to be completed before joining us online for class. This pre-class work will be available in Quercus one week prior to class.

Learning Objectives (pre-class work and online class). Building on the structured approach we practiced in Part 1, in this hands-on workshop students will:

• Review Medline strategy from Part 1 and prepare it for translation
• Delve deeper into the advanced features of interfaces and databases which allow for editing and refining a search strategy
• Translate and execute structured search strategies using different databases, including OVID Embase, and Ebsco CINAHL
• Prepare database search strategies and compose search methods, such that they can be repeated and to ensure proper reporting

Expectations of Participants:

• Join the Quercus site (you will be added to site after registration)
• Complete the pre-class survey (in Quercus)
• Complete the pre-class work (in Quercus)
• Attend the live class ready to participate in discussions and activities (BB Collaborate)
• Complete the post-class evaluation (in Quercus)

Instructors:

Mikaela Gray, MI - Liaison & Education Librarian, Gerstein Science Information Centre

Glyneva Bradley-Ridout, MI - Liaison & Education Librarian, Gerstein Science Information Centre