Crash Course in Text-Based Literature Search

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/GPJJFLW 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.
• Troubleshooting: none, too few or too many hits
• from citation to PDF

Presenter: Dr. Leo Betschart