The Health Sciences Library is excited to announce a new series called Info Bites; casual, short, informative sessions to introduce you to new resources, time-saving pro-tips, and to give you an afternoon break. Drop by the Information Commons (outside the library, 3rd floor LKSKI) Fridays this fall to enjoy tea and treats, and leave with some information to chew on. No registration required unless specified. Full Info Bites schedule below:
Point of Care Tools
Sept. 15, 3:00-3:30pm
Find evidence based medicine in a flash! Point of care tools contain synthesized evidence, usually optimized for mobile devices, so clinicians can make frontline decisions confidently and quickly. This Info Bite will introduce you to the point of care tools available to St. Michael’s Hospital staff, and demonstrate specific features from the Access Medicine and Lexicomp apps.
Demo: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Sept. 22, 2:30-3:30pm
Wolters Kluwer Health’s Lee-Anne Ufholz leads an introduction demonstration to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. This Info Bite session is sponsored by Wolters Kluwer Health and attendance is limited, you don’t want to miss it!
Types of Literature Reviews—What’s the difference?
Sept. 29, 3:00-3:30pm
What’s the difference between a systematic review, meta-analyis and a scoping review? When would I want to do a realist review? This InfoBite will introduce you to the methodologies behind different types of reviews and key points to consider before undertaking one.
Advanced Literature Searching: Top tips & tricks!
Oct. 13, 3:00-3:30pm
Looking to search for health literature more proficiently? This session will discuss at least five advanced search techniques that will improve the quality of your results. Learn how to perform field searching, and apply truncation and wildcard symbols to improve your keyword searches; maximize the specificity of your results using the adjacency operator; use the MeSH database to pre-select your subject headings and more!
Intro to Covidence Systematic Review Software
Oct. 27, 3:00-3:30pm
Covidence is an online platform recommended by the Cochrane Collaboration that enables you to streamline the systematic review process, making it easier to collaborate and manage your data. This InfoBite will introduce you to Covidence and demonstrate a few of its top features. www.covidence.org
DistillerSR Systematic Review Software: a webinar
Nov. 1, 12:00-1:15pm
Join us in the library for a webinar demonstration to learn about DistillerSR, the world’s most-used systematic review software. Distiller helps research teams conduct better, faster systematic reviews to deliver transparent, reproducible and audit-ready reviews. See https://www.evidencepartners.com/products/distillersr-systematic-review-software/ for more information about Distiller.
NOTE: Please contact hslibrary@smh.ca to request a link to participate in the webinar.
Keeping Your Reviews Up to Date
Nov. 24, 3:00-3:30pm
Keeping your Reviews Up-to-Date: This short workshop will show tricks, tools and library magic to keep your searches up to date.
BrowZine: the easy way to search for journals
Dec. 8, 3:00-3:30pm
Have you met BrowZine? This session will introduce you to BrowZine, a handy tool available to help you easily find, read, and monitor thousands of scholarly journals from the Health Sciences Library on your mobile device and web browser.
We hope to see you there! For a list of all library workshops and office hours, please see our Workshop Schedule calendar. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us by email at hslibrary@smh.ca or give us a call, 416-864-5059.
