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BMA Library Online Searching Course
For those who have access to the BMA MEDLINE Plus Service, an opportunity to improve your searching skills. The course will concentrate upon the underlying structure of the MEDLINE database, basic skills involved in formulating a search question & strategy and provide an overview of the primary basic and advanced features of our OVID MEDLINE Plus system.

programme:


10:00 Registration (tea / coffee)
10:10 Welcome
10:15 The MEDLINE database
10:45 Focusing Your Question & formulating a search strategy
11.15 Tea / coffee
11:30 Basic search options
12:15 Basic search options - practical session
13:00 Lunch - will be provided in the Members Dining Room
14:00 Advanced search options
14:45 Advanced search options - practical session
15:30 Tea / coffee
15:45 Workshop "your questions answered"
16:00 Close



course leaders:

Jane Rowlands, Head of Library Development
Clare Aitken, Sub-Librarian, Development
Michelle Crate, Assistant Librarian, Computer Search Services


Cost £125.00 + VAT Sterling (personal members), £250.00 + VAT Sterling (non-members).
Will include a copy of "The Online Searchers Companion" by William H Forrester & Jane L Rowlands, Library Association Publishing, 2000.


You will be invoiced for the cost of the course once your place has been confirmed.
1 week notice of cancellation is required for course fee refund.

* PGEA & CME approval requested.


BMA Ref: 160-900-130
VAT No. GB 674 738491


For further information and to make a booking please visit our web site:

http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/LIBOnlineSearchingCourses

or contact Jane Rowlands

Tel: 0207 383 6737
Fax: 0207 388 2544
email:
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