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Tools for reviewing the scientific literature

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Tools for reviewing the scientific literature

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- [Instructor] Reviewing the scientific literature is another way to help identify confounders. In this video, I'll introduce you to two tools that can help you review the literature, Google Scholar and Zotero. Let's start with Google Scholar. Google Scholar is a free search engine online by Google. Google Scholar indexes literature by crawling through the Internet. When it gets to a site with literature, like a journal site or a conference site, it indexes the literature on the site. It even indexes the abstract word, so when you are searching using this tool, you are searching the whole record, and Google Scholar makes it easy to identify when an article's PDF version is free on the web. Here, let me give you an example. Here we are using the browser Chrome, and, as you can see, we are at scholar.google.com. You can tell it's Scholar and not straight Google because it says so here. It does look a little different.…

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