The Health Sciences Libraries are providing a fall webinar series on searching the health literature. We hope you can join us on Teams for these sessions. They will also be recorded. You can visit the links below at the start of each session to join. 

Thursday, September 7, 2023, 12 –1 pm 

Searching the Health Literature 101: Recording 

This session will provide an introduction to searching the health literature with tips, tricks, and best practices to make your searches more successful.  

Rachel Helbing, Head of Health Sciences Libraries, will cover searching basics like choosing appropriate databases, using PICO to generate a list of keywords, constructing a strategy with Boolean operators, and more. Skills learned in this session will be applicable for searching a variety of biomedical and social sciences databases.  

Thursday, October 5, 2023, 12 – 1 pm 

PubMed 101: Recording 

This session will provide an introduction to searching PubMed, the world’s premiere biomedical database which comprises more than 36 million citations.  

Rachel Helbing, Head of Health Sciences Libraries, will cover PubMed basics like constructing a search, using MeSH and search filters, sorting and sharing results, and accessing full text. Skills learned in this session will help you get the most out of your PubMed searches. 

Thursday, November 9, 2023, 12 – 1pm 

Embase 101: Recording 

This session will provide an introduction to searching Embase, a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 8,200 journals, including 3,000 journals unique to Embase and journals from 95 countries. 

Rachel Helbing, Head of Health Sciences Libraries, will cover Embase basics like constructing a search, using Emtree and search filters, sorting and sharing results, and accessing full text. Skills learned in this session will help you get the most out of your Embase searches.