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How to do effective literature searches
The IFIS guide on effective literature searches highlights the importance of a thorough literature review for producing ...
How to do effective literature searches
The "Best Practice for Literature Searching" guide, created by Carol Hollier, a former Senior Information Literacy and O...
How truncation, wildcards, stemming and lemmatization help your literature search
This guide explains how to enhance literature searches using truncation, wildcards, stemming, and lemmatization. Truncat...
Journals Online project
The Journals Online (JOLs) project, initiated in 1998 under the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (P...
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
The "Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing" document outlines standards established by va...
Research Basics: Using Boolean Operators to Build a Search
Using Boolean Operators for Literature Searches: Boolean operators are essential tools for refining literature searches,...
Systematic reviews of food topics: How well are they conducted?
This resource discusses the increasing prevalence of systematic reviews in food science, highlighting concerns about the...
Teach effective literature searching skills with our online module
The e-learning resource course complements IFIS"s best practice guide, helping students and researchers plan and execute...
The Dangers of Sci-Hub
The article "The Dangers of Sci-Hub" by Lucy Goodchild discusses the risks associated with using the pirate site Sci-Hub...
The Industry Researcher"s Guide to Effective Literature Searching
The Industry Researcher"s Guide to Effective Literature Searching is tailored to help industry researchers efficiently n...
The Scholarly Kitchen
The Scholarly Kitchen is the Society for Scholarly Publishing"s (SSP) blog, established in 2008 to update members on adv...
The Value of Indexing for Accelerating Research
The article emphasizes the importance of indexing in improving the efficiency of research, especially amidst information...
What is the difference between a systematic review and a systematic literature review?
A systematic review is a structured analysis of existing research that follows strict protocols for identifying, evaluat...
2022 National Ethical Guidelines for Research Involving Human Participants
The 2022 National Ethical Guidelines for Research Involving Human Participants update previous guidelines to address adv...
The Health Research and Development Information Network
The Health Research and Development Information Network (HERDIN) is the National Health Research Repository in the count...
Global Index Medicus
Provides access to over a million bibliographic references from a comprehensive resource of scientific journals in vario...
SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online
SciELO is an Open Science program that provides free access to national collections of quality journals by its members i...
Philippine Health Research Registry
Philippine Health Research Registry is a publicly accessible database of newly approved health research, including clini...
Open Science Framework (OSF)
OSF is a free and open-source research management tool for researchers to plan, collect, analyze, and share their work t...
PubMed
PubMed is a freely accessible database of biomedical and life sciences literature that contains over 37 million citation...
Research funding from the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development – Department of Science and Technology (PCHRD-DOST)
The PCHRD has two funding windows for researchers which provides (i) R&D grant for research proposals that are aligned w...
Researcher Academy
Researcher Academy provides free access to countless e-learning resources designed to support researchers on every step ...