(via the Medical Library Association)
Registration is open for the MLA online course “Essential Searching Skills for Librarians on Systematic Review Teams”. It will take place on Tuesday, January 20, and Tuesday, January 27, from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM CDT both days. Please see below for more information, including the link to registration.
If you will be part of a systematic review team–or if you already do systematic review searches and want to hone your skills–this is the searching course for you! You’ll leave the course with the marketable skills needed to become an essential and confident member of a systematic review team. The course will take you through the systematic review searching process, from confirming the need for a review and identifying appropriate databases to creating search strategies and documenting and reporting searches using PRISMA-S. PubMed is the primary database used in the course.
The heart of the course is developing an extensive, effective, systematic, translatable, and replicable search strategy to address a research question. You’ll receive feedback on searches during the live session and after the session via Slack. You’ll also learn how to conduct a reference interview to properly define a topic and how to translate a topic into effective search concepts. And you’ll be able to identify components of the search peer review process that have become standard in the searching community of practice.
This course is worth 5.00 hours of MLA CE credit. It is required for Level I of the Systematic Review Services Specialization.
For more details, including learning objectives and the presenters’ biographies, and to register, please go here. The cost is $420.00.