WACHS Library: Research: Searching &amp; Search Tools

Searching the Literature & Search Tools

PubMed Resources for Advanced Searching

Links to various database tutorials on the Library site.

Need help? Librarians can assist you to search for information on any work-related matter if you submit a Literature Search Request.

About Ovid Medline and PubMed

MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different?

How to compare Ovid Medline and PubMed – from Ovid

Ovid's Medline compared to PubMed – Wolters Kluwer

ACCESSSS Smart Search. Best Evidence for Health Care from McMaster PLUS
Anne O'Tate
The Automated Systematic Search Deduplicator (ASySD): a rapid, open-source, interoperable tool to remove duplicate citations in biomedical systematic reviews BMC Biology September 2023
Automated Systematic Search Deduplicator ASySD
CADTH Search Filters Database
Citation Chaser
Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Review of Interventions version 6. Technical supplement to chapter 4: searching for and selecting studies
Connected Papers
Disputatron
Flinders Filters. Research Solutions to Searching Problems
Inciteful - tools to help you accelerate your research
InterTASC Information Specialists' Sub-Group Search Filter Resource
IRIS.AI - Research discovery with artificial intelligence
Lens.org
Librarian Peer Reviewer Database Connecting experts in systematic searching to the journal editors who need them
Library of Search Strategy Resources (LSSR)
LitMaps
LitSense - finds the best-matching sentences based on overlapping terms as well as semantic similarity via a cutting-edge neural embedding approach
Medline Transpose – to translate a search query between Ovid Medline and PubMed syntax
MeSH Browser
MeSH on Demand (Medical Subject Headings)
Developing a search strategy (Monash University Library)
NIH Preprint Pilot: A Librarian Toolkit
Open Knowledge Maps: a visual interface to the world's scientific knowledge
PICO Portal
Polyglot Search Translator
PRESS: Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies. Ottawa: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
PRISMA - Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA Statement for Reporting Literature Searches in Systematic Reviews - January 2021
PRISMA 2020 and PRISMA-S: common questions on tracking records and the flow diagram
PRISMA Flow Diagram
Process of information retrieval for systematic reviews and health technology assessments on clinical effectiveness - European network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) - December 2017
PubMed PubReMiner
PubVenn
ResearchRabbit
Research Screener
Scholarcy - read smarter
scite_
searchRxiv: sharing search strategies for better evidence synthesis - CABI
Search Strategy Used to Create the PubMed Systematic Reviews Filter
Standards for Systematic Reviews: Standard 3.4: Document the search
Summarized Research in Information Retrieval (SuRe Info) for HTA
Systematic Review Accelerator
University of Western Australia (UWA) - Answering Clinical Questions
What is a systematic review? University of Sydney Library guide
VOSviewer
Yale MeSH Analyzer