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Literature Search and Reference Management (with EndNote and Mendeley)

15 April 2021

Venue: online with Zoom !

Objectives

  • Know how to search key bibliographic databases in the life sciences.
  • Know how to use EndNote or Mendeley for managing references and PDFs.

Speaker

  • Dr Philipp Mayer,  trainer for scientific writing with broad experience in research and in adult education

Content

Literature search and reference management are challenging tasks because (1) retrieval of all relevant papers is the aim, (2) looking through long result lists is time-consuming, (3) full-text access is needed, (4) many paper PDFs have to be organised. In this workshop, we discuss tools and techniques to overcome these challenges.

Programme

  • search terms for effective information retrieval
  • text search, thesaurus search, citation search
  • bibliographic databases — the big five:
  • Google Scholar
  • Microsoft Academic
  • PubMed
  • Scopus
  • Web of Science
  • other useful bibliographic databases
  • current awareness services
  • full-text access
  • EndNote: reference and PDF management
  • Mendeley: reference and PDF management

 

Every participant works on his or her research topic. Every participant has to bring a notebook computer with internet access. Please make sure to have EndNote or Mendeley on your notebook.

Please make sure to have EndNote on your notebook. A free trial version is available here.

 

Post-course assignments:

After the course, every participant has to prepare an annotated bibliography with at least 30 entries (references). The bibliography should be relevant for the participant’s research activities. The deadline to send this bibliography to Philipp Mayer is 30 April 2021.

General information

Date: 15 April 2021

Schedule: 8.55-17.00

Venue: online with Zoom !

ECTS: 0.5 (Communication)

Evaluation: Attendance and active participation.

Information: Please contact Dr Philipp Mayer or the doctoral program coordinator Dr Pauline Fritsch

Registration fee: none

 

Registration

  • This course is free and open to all PhD students, however until 19 March 2021 priority is given to "Interuniversity doctoral program in organismal biology" participants.
  • Limited number of participants: 12

Registration through the web only: FULL!

Please note the cancellation policy (CHF 50).

Deadline: 19 March 2021