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Do you know SciFinder-n? If you’re a chemist, you’ll most likely answer with yes. To scientists of other disciplines, however, this literature database and intuitive search tool is hardly known. In this Coffee Lecture, we demonstrate how you’ll greatly benefit from SciFinder-n, no matter whether you’re a researcher in the life sciences, medicine, physics, earth […]

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The systematic review of randomised controlled trials (with or without meta-analysis) is an important tool when appraising e.g. the effectiveness of interventions, although its place on top of the evidence pyramid is being discussed (1). But apart from the systematic review, there is a number of other review types. In a recently published article 48 […]

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According to the Cochrane handbook, at least the databases Embase, Medline (e.g. via Medline/Ovid or PubMed) and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (TRIALS) must be searched for relevant literature (1). Depending on the investigated topic, specialised databases (e.g. Cinahl for nursing, PsycINFO for psychological interventions, AMED for complementary medicine, BIOSIS for life sciences, […]

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