Thursday, February 27, 2014

Digital Commons Network - an institutional repository network

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

The RCSI institutional repository, e-publications@RCSI, is part of the Digital Commons Network, so aiding the dissemination of RCSI and related research work to a worldwide audience.
For further information on submitting material to the RCSI repository, please see the repository web pages or contact epubs@rcsi.ie

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

RCSI Library Guide to Searching for Studies for Systematic Reviews

Are you carrying out a systematic review?  Or a literature review for a thesis or paper?

Then check out the Library's Guide to Searching for Studies for Systematic Reviews. 

The guide covers:
  • Searching databases
  • Searching grey literature
  • Scoping your topic
  • Identifying search terms
  • Testing your strategies
  • Documenting your strategies
  • ....and more.

Go to Moodle (vle.rcsi.ie), to the Information Seeking & Library Skills Module and scroll down to the Evidence-based Healthcare Reviews section.