We slightly modified the filter for use in EMBASE and CINAHL due to differences in indexing terms between the various databases.
A main goal of the course is to instruct participants in index-term-based (classification) searching strategies (Motschall and Falck-Ytter 2005), and 3R-relevant terms.
The next step used identified keywords and index terms in 13 electronic databases in Health and Social Sciences (see Table 1).
In such instances, the index terms related to the topic "Energy" are not added to the list of index terms.
Key words, controlled and uncontrolled index terms in relevant references identified discipline-specific search terms were used.
This indicates that it is not sufficient to rely on the index terms in MEDLINE (MeSH) to seek sex-specific research reports.
First, giving increased weight to information in the title and index terms is likely to improve performance; we were not able to do this through meta-data weightings.
Major focus refers to records in which an index term has been tagged as the major topic of the article.
The weights w i are positive real numbers that represent the i-th index term in the vector.
Searching for randomised evidence is relatively straightforward with the introduction of several initiatives to aid retrieval: the CENTRAL database of trials in The Cochrane Library; appropriate indexing terms in MEDLINE and EMBASE; and published highly sensitive filters [ 3- 6].
