Search handouts for Health Sciences & STEM

This is a checklist of steps to take when doing KS projects. Includes links, websites and other resources.

A fillable worksheet that helps you identify and organize search concepts and keywords for your search strategy.

A fillable worksheet that use the PICO question format to organize concepts and keywords for your search strategy.

This handout will help you understand how to use boolean operators in a database search and show you examples of different special characters you can use to improve your database searches.

A fillable template to help searchers keep track of their search queries across databases and over time. Use it for databases and grey literature searches.

A fillable template to help searchers keep track of their search queries across databases and over time. Use it for databases and grey literature searches.

This handout presents different strategies on how to find full text articles.

Use this handout to help you brainstorm and organize your grey literature search process.

Who has cited this article? Answer this question by performing a forward citation search. This guide includes instructions on how to perform a forward citation search in several different databases.

This handout explains how to translate a search across different databases, and includes cheat sheets of search syntax for commonly used bibliographic databases.

Template spreadsheet that helps you translate and organize all database search results in one place. Spreadsheet is already populated with sample search information to illustrate use (i.e. you will need to replace it with your own information).

This handout explains how to rerun a database search for specific dates. Use this to update your search results for systematic and scoping reviews. Includes specific syntax for multiple databases.