Note – this is not an HLA Event
Registrants will be able to view recordings / slides after the event (as times involved are not Australian friendly)
More details available here
This course provides a comprehensive guide to peer reviewing search strategies, essential for improving the quality and accuracy of research findings across multiple disciplines. Participants will gain valuable skills in evaluating and optimizing search methodologies, contributing to more robust and credible research outcomes.
The course will cover key topics and learning objectives, which include:
- Understanding the purpose of the peer review process.
- Learning about peer review guidelines: the PRESS checklist.
- Identifying common pitfalls and challenges in search strategy structure.
- Learning how to check the search terms within search strategies.
- Learning how to check the search syntax within search strategies.
- Understanding the best use of limiting options within search strategies.
- Critiquing the use of search filters within search strategies.
- Learning how to check translations of search strategies (across databases and interfaces).
- Learning about the practicalities of peer review: time taken, approach, writeup, keeping up to date.
An official Instats certificate of completion is provided at the conclusion of all seminars. For European students, our seminars offer ECTS Equivalent points, which is indicated on the certificate of completion that is provided at the conclusion of each seminar (see the Instats FAQ for details).
The fee for the course (over 2 half-days) is 351 AUD (i.e. 180 GBP, 208 EUR, 236 USD or 1,729 CNY).
There are reductions on the above prices for students and also for those who are based at partner institutions to Instats – see link above.
Course presenters:
Julie Glanville, Independent Consultant in Information Retrieval, Glanville.Info
Carol Lefebvre, Independent Information Consultant, Lefebvre Associates Ltd.
For further details, including the course descriptions, and to register, please see the link above.
Recordings and materials (including slides) will be available online, to those registered for the course, for 30 days after the course, in case you would prefer to attend asynchronously, or you would like to go back and revisit the course content after the course concludes. An online seminar chat forum will also be monitored by us for 30 days after the seminar concludes, so that you can ask questions related to seminar content outside of the live seminar sessions.
Please feel free to contact us for further details about this course, or to discuss tailor-made options for your workplace.