Crash Course in Text-Based Literature Search

Save a lot of time during your research or master project! The Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center offers a valuable crash course on text-based literature search.

This workshop takes place on Campus Hönggerberg and will be held in English. Please don't confuse this crash course with the two others, i.e. Crash Course in Basic Structure, Property & Reaction Search or Crash Course in Advanced Structure, Property & Reaction Search. They are independent of each other and designed with minimal overlap in content.

Registration: https://t1p.de/8qouv (in order to prepare the refresher to your needs, please answer a few additional questions).

Equipment: A laptop with VPN connection to ETH network; you can attend the course without a device, but for your memory it will be beneficial to work along with the examples presented.

Learning goals:

• formulate a search question and translate it so that a database can understand it
• different types of sources and what part of your written thesis they are useful for
• the basics of Scopus
• search strategies: exploratory, bottom-up, top-down, pearl growing
• search tactics: Boolean operators, phrases, wildcards, truncation, etc.
• from citation to PDF

If you attended "A Refresher in Finding and Managing Literature for your Research Project" or "A Refresher in text-based literature search" in earlier semesters, you are welcome to join again, but please be aware that 90% of the content will be identical.

Presenter: Dr. Leo Betschart