CE100 Essential Searching Skills for Librarians on Systematic Review Teams

If you will be part of a systematic review team--or if you already do systematic review searches and want to hone your skills--this is the searching course for you! This course is required for the “under construction” Level I of the Systematic Review Searching Specialization.

You’ll leave the course with the marketable skills needed to become an essential and confident member of a systematic review team.

The course will take you through the systematic review searching process, from confirming the need for a review and identifying appropriate databases to creating search strategies and documenting and reporting searches using PRISMA-S. PubMed is the primary database used in the course.

The heart of the course is developing an extensive, effective, systematic, translatable, and replicable search strategy to address a research question. You’ll receive feedback on searches during the live session and after the session via Slack.

You’ll also learn how to conduct a reference interview to properly define a topic and how to translate a topic into effective search concepts. And you’ll be able to participate in the search peer review process that is now elemental to the searching community of practice.

You’ll need to bring a laptop computer with WiFi capability to participate in the course.

**This is a ticketed MLA '22 event and requires an additional registration fee. You must be registered for CE100 to attend.