Literature Review &

Utilizing reference manager

Modul 5

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Objectives

Know why search literatures are

important
Know steps to search and store in right
format
Familiar with Pubmed, MeSH terms, and
various advance search tools
Know how to use reference manager
(Mendeley)
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Why review the literature?

Orient yourself in the topic

Find out what others have learned and
reported -> refining problem statement
Familiarize with various relevant
research approaches
Prevents you from duplicating work that
has been done already
Provide convincing argument why
particular study is needed
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The Formal Search Steps

Explicitly defining questions

Locating relevant literature
Screening
Appraising
Synthesizing
Presenting
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MeSH = Medical Subject

Heading
U.S. National Library of Medicine's
controlled vocabulary used for indexing
articles for MEDLINE/PubMed.
MeSH provides
consistent way to retrieve information
that uses different terminology
for the same concepts
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Literature Search - PubMed

Tuberculos
is

Detection

HIV

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How to search for literature

Tuberculosis

HIV

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How to search for literature

HIV
Tuberculosis

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How to search for literature

Tuberculosis

HIV

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Practice 1, Utilizing PubMed

Search articles using keyword
Search MeSH terms
Search articles related to specific
limitation (free, review paper)
Try:
Tuberculosis
MDR

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Presenting search results

Author Year

Title

Aim

Metho
d

Result

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Pratice 2, Utilizing reference

manager

(Mendeley)
Know the function of reference

manager
Making new folder and downloading
data
Understand how to utilize, read and
make note
Inserting data manually
Utilizing for writing reference lists
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Group Work

Divide the course reference collection

among group members
Each members screen and propose
relevant references
Group chooses minimum five reference
Each member appraise one reference
Synthesize the results

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Thank You

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