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Literature searches are an important part of research projects, especially in the early stages of research. They are a way of searching systematically, comprehensively, and exhaustively. A high-quality literature search will find all relevant literature on the topic. This increases the value and importance of the research, as well as the chances of getting it published in a high impact journal. In today's session we will look at how to construct a literature search on the Ovid platform, including tips and tricks such as specific Ovid commands, and common errors to avoid.

Charlotte Viken is a Swedish librarian who is now a Senior Consultant in Ovid´s Customer Success Team. In this role, she helps libraries to make the most out of their Ovid resources through trainings, implementations, and customizations.

An overview of the Scientific Production Tool showing how users can quickly find authors and papers affiliated with your institution.

Maurice Clementi is a multilingual Advanced Client Trainer and member of Ovid´s Customer Success Team. With over 10 years of training expertise he is responsible for delivering bespoke Ovid training courses and materials to international user profiles within hospitals, universities, and pharmaceutical enterprises.

Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room. What do your users say about your library service, and how can we use branding to try and influence this positively? This webinar will discuss what matters about brand and branding, and what you can ignore; you'll also have a chance to examine your own library's brand and your ambitions in this area. This webinar will be jargon-and-hype free and is rooted in simple actions you can take to understand your brand and use this to inform your future marketing.

Join this webinar to see how Ovid Tools can help you keep up to date with the most recent literature in global healthcare. Learn how to access Ovid’s Top Articles feature and view the most read articles in various healthcare specialties from all around the world. We'll also show you how to keep abreast of the latest research by subscribing to Ovid’s eTOC Alerts, a feature that can help you expand your knowledge and remain on top of the most recent research in your chosen journals

Rani Southern-Darbar is an experienced Training Manager and a member of Ovid´s Customer Success Team. She has previous years of training experience within nursing and social care and now provides online and onsite training to Ovid customers. Rani supports customers within the UK and Ireland to help medical and healthcare professionals improve their research and information processing skills.

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.

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.