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Writing Tools and Resources

• Digital Dissertation Workshop Series
• Knowledge Navigation Center
• Faculty Exploratory
• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences (Mulford Library)
• MeSH for Authors (NLM)
• Scientific Writing and Publishing for Health Sciences

Health Sciences Libraries (HSL)

• HSL Website
• Research Guides
• Electronic Journals and Newspapers
• Search Tools

Cochrane Collaboration

• Cochrane Databases (available @ UM via OVID)
• Centre for Reviews and Dissemination: Cochrane Databases

PubMed / OVID (UM-MEDSEARCH)

Structuring A Search

• Free text vs structured terminology (MeSH and MeSH Browser)
• Explosion of terms
• Limits (by Age, Gender, Language, and more)
• FRIAR/SECT Tool for Systematic Review Search Strategy Development (pdf)

Advanced Search Techniques

• PubMed/OVID Comparison
• Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT)
• Search Field and Description Tags (for PubMed)
• Adjacency operators (OVID does adjacency searching; PubMed does not)
• Truncation and Keyword/Phrase Searching
• Subheadings and floating subheadings
• Pre-Exploded Subheadings
• Publication Types, Methodology, and Investigative Techniques
• Age Limits

ISI Web of Science / SCOPUS / Google Scholar

• ISI Tutorial
• Scopus Tutorial
• Google Scholar and Advanced Google Searching
• Cited Reference Searching

EMBASE

• EMBASE Tutorial
• About EMTREE (EMBASE's Controlled Vocabulary)

Citation Managers

• RefWorks and  RefWorks Tutorial
• EndNote and Endnote Tutorial
• Zotero and Getting Started with Zotero

• Database searching
• Reference tracking
  • ancestry search, snowballing
• Citation tracking
• Registry search
  • clinicaltrials.gov, Cochrane Register, HSRProj
• Hand searching
• Expert contacts
  • source of unpublished literature
• Conference proceeding search
• Internet search
  • via Google and Google Scholar
• Finding International Literature
  • via Embase, MEDLINE
• Finding Grey Literature