This work is openly licensed via CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. This guide was adapted in 2025 by Peter Farrell, Nigèle Langlois, and Camille Cottais based on University of Toronto Libraries' Searching the Literature: A Guide to Comprehensive Searching in the Health Sciences.
This guide is an open education resource, created with the financial support of the University of Ottawa's Library OER Grant. This grant helps develop free and low-cost course materials.
We would like to acknowledge the following librarians who contributed to the project as members of the project steering group: Emily Da Silva, Marie-Cécile Domecq, Victoria Cole, Patrick Labelle, Lindsey Sikora, and Sarah Visintini,