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November 1, 2026 at 7pm to November 5, 2026 at 7pmMastering Scholarly Literature Discovery: Indexing, Open Access & Full Text Databases
November 13, 2026 at 7:30pm to November 15, 2026 at 8:30pm
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Mastering Scholarly Literature Discovery: Indexing, Open Access & Full Text Databases
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Time: November 13, 2026 at 7:30pm to November 15, 2026 at 8:30pm
Location: Online
Event Type: webinar
Organized By: MD SAFIQUR RAHAMAN
Latest Activity: 1 hour ago
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About This Workshop
📚 3-Day Practical Workshop
Mastering Academic Database Searching: Indexing, Open Access & Full-Text Resources
A Hands-on Workshop on Scholarly Information Discovery & Literature Retrieval
🎯 Aim
To develop practical skills in searching, discovering, evaluating, accessing and managing scholarly information using major indexing, abstracting, Open Access and full-text academic databases.
🎯 Learning Objectives
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Select the most appropriate database for their research.
- Develop effective academic search strategies.
- Use Boolean operators, truncation, wildcards and field searching.
- Search multidisciplinary and subject-specific databases.
- Discover literature through Open Access platforms.
- Retrieve full-text scholarly publications.
- Conduct author, citation and affiliation searches.
- Compare search results across different databases.
- Export records in RIS, BibTeX, CSV and other formats.
- Organize literature using Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote.
- Set up search and citation alerts.
- Build an efficient literature-discovery workflow.
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