Health Scientific Searching and Publishing (SUND ph.d.-kursus), Aalborg

This 2 days course is aimed at doctoral students and researchers in the health sciences. The course gives you skills and knowledge within a wide range of relevant areas useful during your PhD.

The course will cover these essentials areas:

• Health scientific literature searching, evaluating and organising information – How to use tools like PICO to formulate structured search queries for use in bibliographic databases such as PubMed and EMBASE. How to choose the right database for your research question. Training in PubMed and Embase using structured queries with the MeSH and EMTREE tools. How to document literature searches and create a protocol in accordance with the PRISMA statement. How reference management tools can facilitate the process of organizing search results.
• Research evaluation – What research evaluation entails. Citations and h-index as measures for evaluating research. How to use the most central databases in research evaluation for your subject.
• Publication strategy – How to increase publications’ visibility and searchability in databases through well-informed choices regarding an article’s key features (titles, keywords and abstracts) and choice of publication channel such as BFI and other relevant impact measures. How to use relevant tools and websites for choosing where to publish
• Research visibility, networking and profiling – How to register research in VBN, knowledge and use of researcher identifiers, scholarly networks and Open Access.
• Research ethics and copyright for researchers is also a part of the course.

The course is a “toolbox for research”-course with a mix of presentations and hands-on exercises, either working on your own focusing on your own PhD-project or in small groups with a shared focus.

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