Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Science Literature #4: Building Search Strategies (Part I)

This is the first of several videos demonstrating how to build good search strategies in databases. This video introduces basic concepts in searching, such as controlled vocabularies. This video uses PubMed and MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) in its example searches.

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NIH Public Access Policy #2: How to Comply?

This video demonstrates how to make sure that your NIH-funded articles are compliant with the NIH public access policy. Specifically, it shows what to do if your article gets a non-compliant status ("red dot").

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NIH Public Access Policy #1: Are you in compliance?

This video explains the NIH Public Access Policy that went to effect in 2008, and will be strictly enforced starting July 1, 2013. Under this policy, if a peer-reviewed journal article accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008 arises from an NIH grant, the final peer-reviewed manuscript of the article must be deposited to NIH’s PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication and must be made available to the public no later than 12 months following publication. This video demonstrates the "My Bibliography" feature of the "My NCBI" account linked with your "eRA Commons" account, which can be used to check the compliance statuses of your NIH grant-funded articles.

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Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Science Literature #3: Preparing for a Systematic Search

This video demonstrates a number of tasks reviewers usually do before performing a full-scale systematic search. For example, a preliminary search is usually conducted to find out if anyone else has done a review on the topic before. Reviewers also do "scoping" searches or "pearl-growing" searches to better understand existing primary studies on the topic. These techniques also help develop a list of search terms that can be used in the full-scale search. Finally this video gives examples of online databases, which reviewers may search depending on the subjects of their topics.

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Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Science Literature #2: Conducting a systematic review

To put the rest of the videos in perspective, this video shows the typical process of a systematic review, and where searching fits in the big picture.

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Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Science Literature #1: Introduction

A solid literature search is critical to writing a scientific article. If you are writing any type of review, a systematic literature search is central to the validity of your conclusion. This series of tutorials cover the fundamental concepts and general procedure of searching the health science literature in a systematic manner. They will mainly focus on systematic searches required by a "systematic review". If you are not writing a "systematic review", you may not need to take every single step as detailed in the following videos, but no matter what type of review you decide to write, having a systematic approach to your literature search will only enhance your project. The goal of these tutorials is to ensure that your search is comprehensive, methodical, transparent and reproducible, so that your conclusions are as unbiased and closer to truth as possible. This first video of the series introduces the concept of "systematic review" and makes a rough comparison between a search done for a systematic review and an ordinary literature search.

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Creating Custom Import Filters and Connection Files in EndNote

You can modify the import filters and connections files that ship with EndNote to make it work better for you. This tutorial demonstrates how to do that using the PubMed import filter and connection file as examples. Please note that the examples used in this video only apply to new, empty EndNote libraries, EndNote libraries with an empty journal term list, or EndNote libraries with a clean, full journal term list that ships with EndNote. If you have been managing an EndNote library for a long time, you will need to clean up your existing journal term list before following the examples in the video.

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