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Assessing the quality of literature searches and their updating and adaptation require careful, comprehensive and transparent documentation. Guidelines exist for documenting the development and progress of a literature search. However, the authors are not aware of an editable template that can be used to document the literature search. Therefore, this paper aims to present a search template for the systematic and transparent development and documentation of a comprehensive literature search. The template includes essential steps of the database search as well as supplementary search options and offers a possibility for methodical and content-related justification of the included steps. It considers current guidelines for reporting search strategies. The search template is provided free of charge and is editable with common text editing programs. The contents are to be adapted according to the individual search strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The library of the Medical University Vienna hold lectures and practical sessions as part of the curriculum. Both trainings focus on library user education. The paper describes the development and advancement of these courses since the implementation of the new curriculum in 2001. In addition the timetable of the practical training unit, exercise examples and the flow chart "From pubmed-citation to fulltext" are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cooperation of university libraries with intra- and extra-university institutions with the goal of teaching information literacy has increased significantly in recent years. The topic of information literacy and the accurate handling of information have become a key skill in many areas, in society, in the economy, in education as well as in further training. Therefore, libraries are increasingly becoming educational institutions within the universities, colleges, schools and other institutions to which they belong. Vienna university library participates in this development and offers assistance for the accurate handling of information as the basis of writing academic or pre-academic papers in a variety of collaborations. These include courses at university as well as school levels which are tailored to the target groups. Some of these collaborations are discussed in detail: the training of PhD students and writing mentors in individual study courses, the support for pre-scientific work in schools and the training of school librarians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The "Teaching Library" is a working area in the library of the Medical University Vienna. Teaching Library Lessons provide general information about the library and help users to increase their skills in using the library. The paper describes history, development and structure of the Teaching Library und shows its services: MUW-Curriculum, DiplDissCoaching (Coaching for master and PhD), Library Guide and Training Course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]