Crash Course in Text-Based Literature Search
Event
Save a lot of time during your research 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.
Registration: https://de.surveymonkey.com/r/J2QZFNX We will ask you to answer a few additional questions so that we can tailor the course contents to your needs.
Equipment: A laptop with VPN connection to ETH network is suggested; you can attend the course without a device, but you will get the most benefit by working along with the examples presented.
Learning goals:
- formulate a search question and translate it so that a database can understand it
- know different types of sources and understand what part of your written thesis they are useful for
- know the basics of Scopus
- understand search strategies: exploratory, bottom-up, top-down, pearl growing
- apply search tactics: Boolean operators, phrases, wildcards, truncation, etc.
- from citation to PDF
Presenter: Dr. Leo Betschart
Type of Event: | Workshop |
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Language: | English |
Time: | 17:00–19:20 |
Place: | HCI H 2.1 |
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