It is critical for researchers and clinicians to learn how to choose the resources most appropriate to their review topics and to understand the best methods and processes for conducting responsible literature reviews. Failing to do this can lead to tragic outcomes, such as the preventable death of healthy clinical study volunteers. This is a multi-module self-paced online course. HSLS developed this course to teach researchers and students the fundamentals of responsible literature searching for research practice. University of Pittsburgh credentials are required to access this course.

This module will introduce you to the PubMed database as well as provide you with ways to be more efficient as you search for relevant biomedical research literature.

This module explains the utility of a Custom Filter in PubMed, then describes and demonstrates how to create one. Filters reduce the number of articles in your retrieval using the limits it sets. The module uses the example of creating a clinical journal filter for PubMed. Subsets of this Clinically Useful Journals filter can also be input to drill down to articles in adult, pediatric, mental health, or high clinical usage journals.