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Hello, we are Judy Nordberg and Nancy Harger, librarians at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. So now you have some new ideas of where and how to find good information/data. But how can you manage all of it? Some of you may harken back to the “old days” of writing college …

Literature Search Strategy Week: Judy Nordberg and Nancy Harger on Citation Management Read More »

Hello! My name is Lisa Palmer. I’m a librarian in the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. As my colleague Molly Higgins pointed out in her Top Ten Databases blog post earlier this week, PubMed is a key database to search for biomedical literature. The goal of this post is to …

Literature Search Strategy Week: Lisa Palmer on Using My NCBI to Save PubMed Searches and Citations and Customize Your Display Read More »

Hello, my name is Len Levin and I am a librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Using the databases and search tips outlined in the previous two posts for this week can go a long way to finding good information when conducting research and evaluation projects. But what happens when …

Literature Search Strategy Week: Len Levin on Understanding and Finding Grey Literature Read More »

Hi, my name is Martha Meacham, a librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Searching for information is a treasure hunt. The words you use to construct your search can be the map. Librarians make excellent escorts for your explorations, but if you are venturing on your own, it pays to …

Literature Search Strategy Week: Martha Meacham on Constructing a Literature Search – The Vocabulary Roadmap Read More »

Hi, I’m Molly Higgins, a librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Today we’re going to talk about planning your search because planning ahead saves a lot of work in the long run. One part of planning is choosing your database(s). Maybe you’re used to using Google for everything. Maybe you …

Literature Search Strategy Week: Molly Higgins on the Best Databases for Everything Read More »

We are Judy Savageau and Laura Sefton from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) and we’re here to introduce to you a week full of information about library resources and what role these might play in various components of your evaluation work from soup to nuts! We believe …

Literature Search Strategy Week: Judy Savageau and Laura Sefton on Library Resources and the Important Role They Play in Evaluation Work Read More »