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Systematic Searching for Comprehensive Literature Reviews

Ended Mar 17, 2020
1 credit

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Full course description

Term: Spring 2020
Date: March 17th, 2020
Time: 3:00pm - 4:15pm
Location: Torgersen 1100
Instructors: Ginny Pannabecker, Erin Smith, Kiri DeBose, and Cozette Comer
Presented By: University Libraries (LIB)
Zoom: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/7791318183

Description:
Conducting a comprehensive literature review in today’s world of ever expanding publications can be overwhelming. Join in this session to develop a systematic approach for your literature review searches. Explore and identify key information sources for your topic - whether within your field or beyond. Trial and develop your search techniques with tips to maximize results. Discuss a plan to document your search so that you can recreate your results anytime. Try out alert features in library databases or via other sources to help you stay up to date during your project. Find out about Subject Specialist librarians at VT Libraries and more contacts for future needs. [Systematic Review Workshop Series #3 of 6 -- attend as a one-off or as part 3 of 6 for this series of workshops to develop skills and use tools available to assist with conducting comprehensive literature reviews. Note sessions 1 and 6 are duplicative -- you only have to attend a session about Covidence once to complete the series.]