Get the most out of the Ovid webinar series

Every day on YouTube people watch over a billion hours of video. Users of your service ARE there, so how do you provide useful video content? This webinar will look what matters and what doesn't with video marketing, the kinds of topics which suit the medium, and tips on how to boost engagement and ensure your videos are seen. We'll also look at various platforms for video creation, including using PowToon, Videoscribe and even PowerPoint. We hope that attendees will leave the webinar feeling they have options open to them, for making videos for a variety of purposes in the future.

Ned Potter is an Academic Liaison Librarian, and a Trainer for various organisations including the NHS, the Bodleian and the British Library. His book The Library Marketing Toolkit was published by Facet in 2012. Ned can be found online at ned-potter.com and on Twitter at @ned_potter.

How can I share expert searches with my colleagues and students? Ovid has developed a new user-friendly search sharing function in which you can quickly transfer your search into a permanent jumpstart link. Please join this short webinar where your Customer Success Manager will demonstrate the easy transfer of a search into a permanent link; how to send and receive searches via email and a discussion of how this new search sharing function can be beneficial when integrated into your working environment.

Michael Fanning is one of the Ovid Training Managers based in Europe. He has a background in medical science and extensive experience in the search and retrieval of information from medical databases and information systems. He has also held specialist courses on information use and re-use in the context of evidence-based medical practice.

In this webinar, we will discuss and show the benefits of the Ovid MEDLINE proposition over PubMed. Ovid and PubMed both search the MEDLINE database, but their workflows, tools and support are different. With the recent changes to the PubMed interface, many researchers and advocates of PubMed are now looking to Ovid MEDLINE as their expert search solution.

Maurice Clementi is an Advanced Client Trainer and member of Ovid´s Customer Success Team. With over 10 years of training expertise, he provides online, onsite, and blended training to Ovid customers and their patrons. Currently supporting both the EMEA and LATAM regions, he is responsible for delivering training courses to a wide range of user profiles within hospitals, universities, and pharmaceutical enterprises.

Drug safety and medical device regulators have strict requirements regarding what constitutes an “important source” of information for the purposes of clinical evaluation and post-market surveillance. While information from scientific literature databases such as PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, Embase and APA PsychINFO still play a dominant role, there is an increasing requirement to consider evidence from other sources, for example, grey literature. However, the questions, what is grey literature, what is its scope and how relevant is it, are questions being currently and actively debated, fueled also by the increasing role of real-world evidence and social media sources.

This Webinar will begin by addressing the question: what is grey literature? And this by looking at a selection of definitions and views from regulators as well as from academic organizations. Considering well established examples of grey literature, the webinar will show why it is important and becoming increasingly so in all areas involving evidence acquisition and evidence synthesis. Using practical examples, the webinar will further demonstrate how grey literature can be located on Ovid. For instance, as a specific type of information already captured by the large scientific databases, e.g. technical reports, news or newspaper articles on Ovid MEDLINE, conference related materials on Embase or dissertations on APA PsychINFO. Or where the database on Ovid is itself regarded as a grey literature resource, for example APA PsycEXTRA. The webinar will conclude with a discussion and questions and answers round.

Michael Fanning is one of the Ovid Training Managers based in Europe. He has a background in medical science and extensive experience in the search and retrieval of information from medical databases and information systems. He has also held specialist courses on information use and re-use in the context of evidence-based medical practice.

Lippincott®, a publishing division of Wolters Kluwer, is excited to offer the free author webinar, “Creating a Publication-Ready Manuscript.” Presented in English, this event offers new and experienced authors alike tips to hone their skills for publishing a manuscript in a peer-reviewed healthcare journal. The webinar will address top strategies for writing a good paper, submitting a manuscript, the peer review process and publishing a paper open access.

Duncan MacRae currently serves as the Director, Open Access, Editorial for Wolters Kluwer. In this role, Duncan oversees the development and implementation of editorial policies for Wolters Kluwer and Medknow open access publications. Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer in 2013, Duncan served as Managing Editor for Neurosurgery, the official publication of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, as Senior Manager, Editorial Operations for PriMed, a leading provider of continuing medical education, and Managing Editor for Brain Pathology, the official publication of the International Society of Neuropathology.

This webinar will focus on how to approach promoting e-Resources. The occasional tweet and poster is not enough to truly market our resources to students and academics: how do we move beyond this to frame messages so they have the most impact? What actually matters to our audiences? Which channels should we use? The purpose of this session is to break marketing down into easily manageable chunks, and enable you to prioritise what to do next when it comes to communicating the value of your resources.

Ned Potter is an Academic Liaison Librarian, and a Trainer for various organisations including the Bodleian Libraries and the British Library. His book The Library Marketing Toolkit was published by Facet in 2012. Ned can be found online at ned-potter.com and on Twitter at @ned_potter.

Systematic Reviews are the informational backbone of evidence-based medical practice. Initially, systematic reviews focussed predominantly on the effectiveness of a clinical intervention - as indicated by randomised controlled trials. However, today's researchers are confronted by a wide range of questions for which they also need to review literature systematically, and not only through the lens of clinical effectiveness. Using practical examples run on Ovid MEDLINE and Embase, this webinar will demonstrate the variety of systematic reviews currently under discussion. It will show how to locate them using different search techniques, such as limits, search filters and free-text searching. In conclusion, we will consider what, aside from randomised controlled trials, constitutes a systematic review.

Michael Fanning is one of the Ovid Training Managers based in Europe. He has a background in medical science and extensive experience in the search and retrieval of information from medical databases and information systems. He has also held specialist courses on information use and re-use in the context of evidence-based medical practice.