UHN Virtual Library: Workshops & Training

This session will enable participants to explore the concepts related to scoping reviews and will equip participants with the knowledge and tools required to successfully plan for and undertake a scoping review.

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Thinking about doing a systematic review? Scoping review? Rapid review? Are you sure? This session will teach you what it means to do a systematic review or other type of knowledge synthesis, and help you understand what review “type” best fits your research question, timeline and goals.

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Systematic reviews, if well done, provide a reliable and minimally bias source of information on topics of concern to clinical practice. Patient safety and responsible health care services are on the line. Learn about the 8 steps involved in a systematic review, and why you need to elucidate each before you get started.

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00:00 Welcome
02:20 Session Objectives
03:07 Poll: How long does a systematic review take?
06:12 What is a systematic review
07:26 Before getting started
12:20 Systematic review guidelines
14:40 Protocols
15:15 Steps involved in a systematic review
15:33 1. The research question
18:38 2. The systematic review protocol
21:50 3. Literature searching
24:50 Basic search
25:18 Exhaustive search
25:47 Why should you consider having a librarian on your team?
27:26 How will you handle citations?
28:28 PRISMA flow chart
30:04 4.a. Criteria: inclusion/exclusion
30:52 4.b. Screening - using inclusion/exclusion criteria
33:08 5. Quality assessment (risk of bias, etc.)
34:55 6. Data extraction/abstraction
36:37 7. Data analysis
37:17 8. Interpretation of results
37:56 Knowledge translation & dissemination
39:52 Contact Us!
40:24 Thanks for watching!

This introductory session will provide an overview of the PubMed interface. The focus will be on building an effective search strategy using the PubMed search interface and using clinical queries to retrieve targeted results to clinical questions. Advanced search features and troubleshooting methods will be discussed.

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Finding evidence is an integral step of Evidence Based Practice. MEDLINE is a leading source for finding biomedical scholarly literature. This session will present theory and techniques for building effective search strategies; it will go over key concepts including searching by subject terms and keywords and applying Boolean operators.

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This session will be a demonstration of fundamental EndNote features and it is designed for people with little to no experience using EndNote. Participants will learned to import and export citations, add citations into a manuscript and batch export.

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This introductory session will provide an overview of the Zotero citation management interface. The focus will be on showing you how to streamline the process of collecting, importing, exporting, and sharing your citations for papers and grants. The session is introductory and meant for those with little or no experience using Zotero.

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00:00 Welcome
01:45 Agenda
03:13 Download and Install
04:54 Set up a Zotero account, info about the account, setting up syncing
09:47 Get things into your Zotero Library
10:00 Import from PubMed
17:42 Import from CINAHL
21:00 Drag PDFs into Zotero
23:05 Create collections - Manage your Zotero library
24:30 Add Tags - Manage your Zotero library
25:43 Annotate PDFs
27:01 Q&A How often does the import not correctly list the citations?
28:04 Q&A Can I choose a specific collection to import citations to?
29:00 Q&A Are the collections or folders smart? Can they be set up to pull items based on keywords, for instance?
29:55 Deduplicate - Manage your Zotero library
32:15 Manually edit records - Manage your Zotero library
33:54 Set up a group for collaborating in Zotero
37:50 Get citations out of Zotero and into a manuscript
42:46 Fix a citation and update
44:07 Switch styles
45:00 Unlink citations
46:36 Create a quick bibliography
48:00 Questions
48:10 Q&A Troubleshooting Word plug-in
49:57 Q&A Managing citations for websites, reports and other non-journal items
51:34 Q&A Compare Zotero and Mendeley
52:35 Q&A Best way to share sources with people not on Zotero
53:48 Q&A Are you able to automatically remove the doi links from the reference list
55:20 Q&A How does this work in the Office 365 "light" version of Word?
57:07 Thank you for watching!

This workshop will define what grey literature is and is not; it will identify grey literature sources and evaluate them and it will explain the process involved with producing a well-documented and transparent grey literature search.

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Short demonstration of the process of choosing and using resources to find evidence based answers for clinical questions as quickly as possible.

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This introductory session will provide an overview of the Publication Cycle. You will be guided through the stages of research as a cycle, from planning through promoting your work. By the end of the session you will be familiar with the publication cycle and will learn where to look for resources, tools, and services to help with your publication.

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Working on completing a research project involves many building blocks. During this session we will share some of the key tools you should take into consideration to create a good foundation for your project. This session will go over how to identify appropriate research designs for different research questions, finding your publications and more!

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During this session (Turning Research Aspiration into Reality) our speaker, Dr. Meghan Jendrysik, shared her expertise in evaluating manuscripts for scientific merit and scope, understanding the publishing lifecycle, choosing the right journal, and working through the peer review process.

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EndNote Basics Workshop.

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Zotero Fundamentals Workshop.

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00:00 Welcome
01:45 Agenda
03:13 Download and Install
04:54 Set up a Zotero account, info about the account, setting up syncing
09:47 Get things into your Zotero Library
10:00 Import from PubMed
17:42 Import from CINAHL
21:00 Drag PDFs into Zotero
23:05 Create collections - Manage your Zotero library
24:30 Add Tags - Manage your Zotero library
25:43 Annotate PDFs
27:01 Q&A How often does the import not correctly list the citations?
28:04 Q&A Can I choose a specific collection to import citations to?
29:00 Q&A Are the collections or folders smart? Can they be set up to pull items based on keywords, for instance?
29:55 Deduplicate - Manage your Zotero library
32:15 Manually edit records - Manage your Zotero library
33:54 Set up a group for collaborating in Zotero
37:50 Get citations out of Zotero and into a manuscript
42:46 Fix a citation and update
44:07 Switch styles
45:00 Unlink citations
46:36 Create a quick bibliography
48:00 Questions
48:10 Q&A Troubleshooting Word plug-in
49:57 Q&A Managing citations for websites, reports and other non-journal items
51:34 Q&A Compare Zotero and Mendeley
52:35 Q&A Best way to share sources with people not on Zotero
53:48 Q&A Are you able to automatically remove the doi links from the reference list
55:20 Q&A How does this work in the Office 365 "light" version of Word?
57:07 Thank you for watching!

DORA at UHN Workshop.

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