UHN Virtual Library: Workshops & Training

This workshop will be introducing the Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) Pyramid 5.0 and how it can help you efficiently find the information you need. During the session we will go through the process of choosing and using resources to find evidence based answers for clinical questions as quickly as possible.

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00:00 Welcome
00:51 Land Acknowledgement
02:34 Objectives
02:50 Finding the Evidence Pyramid 5.0
03:23 What is the Pyramid, what resources are on it?
04:15 How to use the Pyramid
04:30 The example problem
04:48 Synthesized Summaries: BMJ Best Practice
06:38 Synthesized Summaries: Natural Medicines
07:57 Systematically Derived Recommendations (Guidelines): ClinicalKey
09:44 Systematic Reviews: PubMed
11:31 Individual Studies: PubMed Clinical Queries
13:05 What if you made it to the bottom of the pyramid?
13:30 Which ones to search at the bedside, which ones to use later
13:50 Time for trying out the resources, with example scenario
15:45 Q&A What's the site again? UHNLibraries.ca
16:23 Q&A I'm just getting pyramid articles, where's the Pyramid again?
17:15 Q&A Do we need to use AND (Boolean) when using these resources?
17:58 Q&A Best resource for nutrition related questions?
18:12 Finding PEN Practice-based Evidence in Nutrition
18:57 Using PEN
20:57 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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00:00 Welcome
00:30 Land Acknowledgement
02:20 What is PubMed
03:23 Session Objectives
03:49 Searchable questions in PubMed - concept boxes
05:30 Demo - why to access through library website (full text)
06:34 Demo - basic versus comprehensive searches in PubMed
07:11 Demo - what PubMed does when you search
08:25 Demo - what if you're not getting the results you expect
09:27 Demo - narrowing your results using limits/filters
11:10 Demo - using Clinical Queries to find the types of papers that will answer your question
12:40 Demo - sorting your results
12:54 Demo - do you need to Boolean
13:32 Demo - troubleshooting
13:54 Demo - what if PubMed translates your search terms incorrectly
15:22 Demo - using quotation marks in PubMed
17:10 Demo - keep your search simple to avoid mistranslation
19:39 Demo - using subject headings (and fixing a mistranslation)
21:22 Demo - combining searches in Advanced Search
22:35 Demo - using search fields in Advanced Search
22:57 Demo - searching for authors
25:25 Demo - using Find it at UHN button to find full text
25:44 Demo - saving your citations
27:27 Demo - send results to citation manager
27:38 Thank you for watching!

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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00:00 Welcome
00:36 Objectives
01:35 Search Options
02:42 Searchable Questions
07:50 Depth - how much stuff do you need to find for your project - basic vs iterative vs exhaustive searching
11:29 Search Tools - Subject Headings
14:46 Search Tools - Keywords
18:33 Search Tools - Boolean
20:50 Filters (or Limits)
22:26 Search Steps
24:18 Finding Medline on UHNLibraries.ca
24:50 Ovid Medline Demo
25:04 Start with one concept- look for Subject Headings
26:20 Scope Notes - find definitions and more info
28:29 Use Previous Page if available so Ovid doesn't get confused
28:50 The Tree - subject heading hierarchies
30:50 Subheadings - don't use them
32:07 Keyword searching
32:40 Use shortcuts
32:58 Truncation - the asterisk
33:20 Proximity/Adjacency - adj#
34:28 Field codes - .mp.
37:24 Boolean - OR
37:57 Concept 2 - Pain subject headings
38:18 What if exploding the subject heading would include irrelevant headings? What if the broad heading is too broad?
40:14 Concept 2 keywords
41:42 AND between concepts
41:55 Filters/Limits
46:40 Finding full text
47:17 Save your search
48:37 Email, print, or export search results
49:35 Key for reading keywords - what do these symbols mean
50:26 The complete strategy for our example
50:53 Troubleshooting bad search results
54:31 Questions? Contact us!
55:13 Thanks 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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00:00 Welcome
00:30 Objectives
00:50 Activity: What counts as grey literature?
02:42 What is Grey literature?
05:50 What do I even look for (if I need grey literature)?
08:56 When should I consider grey literature?
11:30 How can I apply grey literature?
12:35 Examples of grey literature used in research
16:50 Where can you look for grey literature?
22:24 Search process
25:00 Document what you do to find grey literature
27:09 Documenting: Remember that links/URLs are not permanent
28:29 The Wayback Machine
30:33 Documentation: Citation Managers
31:32 Activty: Google gives different searchers different answers to the same search terms
34:40 Activity follow up: Try going straight to the source: who has this information?
37:35 Algorithms can reinforce biases
39:14 Think critically - grey literature is not necessarily peer reviewed or even fact checked
40:30 Our Go-To grey literature resources
42:22 Q&A Any advice regarding non-English information?
44:32 Thanks for joining!

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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00:00 Welcome
01:18 Land Acknowledgement
03:13 Session Objectives
03:50 Orienteering Reviews
04:35 There are many types of reviews
05:26 What is a "review"
07:05 What are "knowledge syntheses"
07:42 CIHR definition of knowledge synthesis
08:25 Reasons to choose one type of review over another
09:09 SALSA: search, appraisal, synthesis, analysis
10:34 Traditional Review
11:12 Activity: Which example research questions could be done as a traditional review?
14:06 Purpose of different types of reviews
15:16 Applying SALSA to reviews
16:29 Activity: which question suits which review?
17:20 Activity question one: which question is best suited to a systematic review?
20:00 Activity question two: which question is best suited to a scoping review?
22:55 TREAD: time, resources, expertise, audience, data
24:44 TREAD for traditional reviews
25:30 TREAD for systematic reviews
27:50 TREAD for systematic reviews with meta-analysis
28:36 TREAD for scoping reviews
29:57 TREAD for rapid reviews
31:47 Rapid Reviews can be a problem child
34:30 Game: What type of review am I?
46:30 Right Review tool (to help you figure out what type of review to do)
49:17 Review resources on UHNLibraries.ca
49:39 UHN Libraries support for knowledge synthesis projects
51:00 Systematic Review Overview guide
51:25 Review types guide
52:11 Q&A
53:01 Find more Workshops and recordings
54:35 Thanks for watching

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
01:36 Land Acknowledgement
03:17 Session Objectives
04:14 Activity: how long does a systematic review take?
06:05 What is a Systematic Review
07:24 Before Getting Started (what do you need to do)
10:36 Methodological and reporting guidelines for systematic reviews
12:02 Steps involved in a systematic review
12:22 The Research Question
14:56 The Systematic Review Protocol
17:40 Literature Searching
20:00 Literature Searching - Why include a librarian on your team
21:26 Literature Searching - handling citations
22:00 Literature Searching - reporting how citations were handled
22:26 Screening
25:00 Screening - AI Applications in Screening
28:00 AI tools in Systematic Reviews
30:00 Responsible AI in Evidence Synthesis (Cochrane)
30:40 Quality Assessment
32:06 Data Extraction/Abstraction
33:30 Data Analysis
34:03 Interpretation of Results
34:50 Knowledge translation & dissemination
36:00 The Publication Cycle
36:29 Thank you for joining!
37:47 Q&A Are your services only for those affiliated with UHN
34:33 Thank you for watching!

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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00:00 Welcome
01:23 Session Objectives
01:43 What is a Scoping Review?
03:18 How do you know if you want to do a scoping review?
03:54 Before getting started (what do you need to do to be ready)
04:54 Follow the Guidelines
05:55 PRISMA for Scoping Reviews and Searching (reporting guidelines)
06:26 Protocols
06:54 Elements of a protocol
09:14 Registering scoping review protocols
09:39 Steps involved in doing a scoping review
09:56 1. Identify the Research Question
11:16 2. Identify Relevant Studies
12:23 Why have a librarian on your review team?
12:43 Knowledge synthesis support at UHN Libraries
13:13 Data management: How will you handle citations?
14:17 Why you need to manage your citations well: PRISMA reporting requirements
15:14 3. Study Selection: inclusion/exclusion criteria and screening
15:54 4. Charting Data
17:07 5. Collating, Summarizing, and Reporting Results
18:08 6. Consultation
19:34 Knowledge translation & dissemination
20:37 Activity: What kind of resources do you need to do a scoping review?
21:40 Q&A: Should we use screening tools like Covidence for scoping reviews?
23:20 Q&A: Do scoping reviews need to go through REB?
23:55 Q&A: Can you say more about the Consultation stage and its scope
24:45 End of presentation portion
25:27 Q&A: Is there a framework or code of ethics for criticizing other studies in the field?
26:24 Q&A: How do you manage the timing of publishing/registering the protocol?
28:26 Q&A: Is there a librarian at Toronto Western anymore?
29:21 Q&A: Is there an important difference between putting a protocol on a preprint server or trying to publish it like with JBI?
29:45 Q&A: In terms of budgeting approx. a year, what stages of the scoping review tend to take the longest for a typical-sized topic?
30:56 Q&A: Any tips or recommendations for taking the broad framework of a scoping review down into actionable questions/criteria for first stage screening?
34:52 Thanks for watching!

In this practical workshop we: brainstorm inclusion and exclusion criteria; briefly look at screening tools including Covidence; examine where different characteristics can quickly be located during Title and Abstract screening; work through a sample pilot test to improve agreement rates. .

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00:00 Welcome
00:53 Land Acknowledgement
02:29 Objectives
03:20 What do you need to be able to screen?
05:29 Inclusion criteria vs exclusion criteria
06:49 Activity: brainstorming inclusion and exclusion criteria
11:50 Tips for speed
14:42 Tour of a demo environment in Covidence
19:01 Rayyan - free screening tool
20:03 "Aboutness" - determining if an article is About your question
24:55 What about full-text screening?
28:38 Pilot Screening
39:40 Thank you for watching!

The Screening Phase for Reviews tutorial presents information on the screening process for systematic reviews or other knowledge syntheses, and contains a variety of resources including guidelines, best practices, tips, and tools for successfully preparing to complete this important research stage.

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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00:00 Welcome
01:12 Session Objectives
02:00 EndNote desktop vs EndNote online
02:39 EndNote desktop and MS Word
03:00 EndNote online and MS Word - downloading Cite While You Write
03:27 Find a detailed comparison between desktop and online
04:38 Demo for EndNote Desktop begins
04:48 Open EndNote and create and name a new library
05:18 Saving your library
05:39 The files that make up your EndNote library: keep them together
06:34 Sending your library to others: compressing your library
07:39 Exploring the library display panels - left panel
08:16 Centre panel: searching your library
08:43 Centre panel: displaying your records, changing fields, sorting
09:49 finding Preferences to customize your settings
10:22 Centre panel: the icons
10:56 Right panel: display the full record, edit a record, add or view the pdf
12:34 See preview of formatted citation for record
13:21 Troubleshooting: I can't see the right panel (answer: it only shows up when you have records in your library)
14:04 Bringing references into EndNote library
14:38 Finding databases from UHN Libraries
15:13 Exporting from Ovid Medline
16:25 Exporting from PubMed
17:00 Importing from Google Scholar
19:14 If the direct export does not work save as RIS file and import
19:40 Manually entering records
21:07 Importing citations from pdfs
21:13 Batch importing from pdfs: setting up pdf handling
24:24 Removing duplicates
27:55 Removing duplicates for systematic or scoping reviews
28:50 Finding full-text
31:29 What if it only finds a URL instead of a pdf?
32:12 Another way to add pdfs: using the EndNote browser plugin
33:25 Organizing your citations: groups
33:55 Creating groups, renaming group sets
34:38 Adding citations to your groups
36:47 Deleting groups does not delete the contents
37:11 Smart Groups: automatic groups based on your search criteria
38:57 Using Cite While You Write
40:00 Adding citations to your manuscript
41:44 Removing or changing a citation
42:50 Changing the citation style
44:15 How to remove EndNote coding safely before submitting your manuscript(convert to plain text)
46:45 Sharing your library
50:50 Bringing in references from Google Scholar
52:28 Thank you for watching!

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 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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00:00 Objectives
01:39 What is the Publication Cycle
01:59 Finding the Publication Cycle
02:28 Step 1: Before you stary your research
02:43 Tools to help you decide if your question is feasible and answerable: FINER
05:46 Searchable Questions
06:19 Searchable questions: PICO or Concept boxes
07:13 Research questions versus searchable questions
07:44 Choosing a type of review
10:45 Writing a protocol
14:54 Choosing a journal
16:56 Avoid Research Waste
19:03 Step 2: Research Building Blocks
19:44 Authorship guidelines
19:58 Reporting guidelines
20:26 Research Data Management
21:03 Open Data
22:28 Step 3: Writing your Manuscript
22:48 Review journal author guidelines
22:56 Be aware of copyright, get permission, and cite accurately
23:24 Publication ethics
23:44 Deceptive or predatory journals
24:02 Use citation managers to make it easy to use the correct citation style (see workshops in Citation Management section)
24:19 Think, Check, Submit: determine if you are submitting to a legit journal
25:03 Step 4: After you publish
25:15 Knowledge translation
26:02 Communicating research to the public
27:01 Self Promotion
27:52 Questions?
28:04 Q: Does UHN provide EndNote?
28:38 Q: How and when will UHN Libraries perform searches?
29:23 Thank you for watching, please fill in the evaluation form

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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00:00 Opening
01:42 Land Acknowledgement and Indigenous Resources
03:28 Today’s Agenda
03:51 Developing a Research Question
06:24 Choosing Databases to Search
07:58 Different Research Designs for Different Questions
10:06 Right Review for You tool
11:28 Managing and Creating Formatted Citations
13:54 Making Your Publications Findable (ORCID)
14:55 Choosing a Journal (Jane)
16:38 Closing

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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DORA at UHN Workshop.

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00:00 Welcome
00:49 How do we assess research/researchers?
03:08 Counting number of papers and where papers are published
03:45 The danger of assessing by counting papers: paper mills and salami slicing
05:13 Using proxies for quality of research: Journal Impact Factor
07:45 Citations for individual papers, relative to peers
08:15 Are individual paper citations a good measure?
11:21 What do metrics really tell us?
12:22 The dangers of relying on metrics: no context, invisible limitations, over-reliance
14:30 Metrics and research/citation inequity
14:51 How should we assess research and researchers? What is DORA (Declaration on Research Assessment)?
15:30 CIHR, UHN and many research funders are DORA signatories
16:12 DORA Principles
17:51 DORA at UHN
19:43 UHN Recommended Measures (published in PLOS ONE)
21:33 How does your research advance knowledge?
26:10 Barriers for reporting and evaluation (published in Health Research Policy and Systems)
28:09 Overcoming barriers for reporting and evaluation
32:14 What the UHN Research Institutes are doing now for assessments
34:26 Remember DORA is the way major funders and research organizations are going
35:20 Questions
35:30 Q: Has DORA been signed by the NIH?
36:17 Some research may not have had direct clinical impact, but impacts clinician training
36:51 Goodhard's law: "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
37:35 Comment: in interdisciplinary research or social science research JIF or other metrics really fail to indicate impact.
39:00 Comment: Would love to see practical example: this is what this researchers work would look like if relying on metrics and this is what the real impact is.
41:30 Q: want to see the recommended measures
42:00 Comment: In the annual reviews struggle with demonstrating meaningful impact over only 12 months, and also parse big impact from quality
47:00 Q: would love to learn more about how collaboration is being measured/ true collaboration vs superficial collaboration
51:15 Q: Any consideration of supervision, lab culture etc.
52:50 Q: Will there be other opportunities for training to better understand DORA?
54:35 Thanks for watching!