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Finding public health information: WHO Library, PubMed, Cochrane Library

Tomas Allen

Training course in research methodology and research protocol development 2019

November 18, 2019 - Geneva

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Allen T. Finding public health information: WHO Library, PubMed, Cochrane Library. Paper presented at: Training course in research methodology and research protocol development; 2019 Nov 18; Geneva.

Tasks

• Go over the set of slides: Finding public health information: WHO Library, PubMed, Cochrane Library - Tomas Allen (WHO). (Watch the recording WHO, Cochrane Library and PubMed).
• Go over the file on Searching PubMed.
• Go over the presentation: PubMed - the Einstein Method - Tomas Allen (WHO) (Watch the recording PubMed - the Einstein method).
• Study section 11.10 ‘Citation of references’ in pages 139 to 140 of the document: Fathalla MF, Fathalla MM. A practical guide for health researchers (WHO Regional Publications, Eastern Mediterranean. Series 30). WHO; 2004.

Additional resources

• Cochrane Library and Ready Made Search strategies - Tomas Allen (WHO)
  Learn how to reuse the Methods section from systematic reviews to quickly create robust search strategies. Discover how to find clinical trials, contacts and more information not found in PubMed (watch the recording).
• Beyond PUBMED – Health Literature from LMIC - Tomas Allen (WHO)
  PubMed indexes about 5,500 journals but there are over 25,000 medical / health journals published worldwide. This presentation guides to where to find information from the other 20,000 (watch the recording).
• Grey Literature – Virtual Treasure Hunt - Tomas Allen (WHO)
  Grey literature are elusive documents neither easy to identify nor readily available. Learn how to hunt for Grey literature in this presentation (watch the recording).
• EndNote BASIC – free and web based citation management software - Tomas Allen (WHO)
  A guide on how to use the free Web version of EndNote to manage citations or “cite as you write”. Learn to edit citations, compile article lists and remove duplicate citations from multiple databases in this presentation (watch the recording).

Relevant online resources

• WHO Library and Information Networks for Knowledge
• Citing Medicine - NCBI Bookshelf
  This is a complete guide to NLM reference style.
• Harvard Format Citation Guide
  This is a complete guide to Harvard in-text and reference list citations.

Citation managers

• Mendeley Reference Manager
  This is a free tool to manage your references.
• Zotero Reference & Citation Manager
  This is a free tool to manage your references.
• PMID2cite, PubMed Citation Tool
  This is a free PubMed online tool that helps you generate citations and reference lists instantly from PubMed.
• PMID2cite, Vancouver Reference Generator for PubMed Articles
  A free PubMed online tool to help you apply Vancouver style format to any PubMed-indexed journal articles and create your online bibliography.

Reference document

• Fathalla MF, Fathalla MM. A practical guide for health researchers (WHO Regional Publications, Eastern Mediterranean. Series 30). WHO; 2004.

Assignment

1. Do a literature search and identify 10 original researches that are related to your research topic.
2. List the identified articles using the National Library of Medicine (NLM) reference style.