Introduzione
Beyond PubMed: Smarter Literature Monitoring for Life Sciences
PubMed, maintained by the National Library of Medicine, remains one of the most widely used resources for accessing biomedical literature. Its powerful search engine, structured indexing system, and continuously evolving interface make it an essential tool for researchers and healthcare professionals.
However, in specialized contexts such as Pharmacovigilance, Medical Affairs, and scientific monitoring, relying on PubMed alone may not always provide comprehensive coverage. Effective literature surveillance often requires integrating additional sources and adopting more advanced monitoring approaches.
This training course introduces participants to complementary platforms and innovative tools that can enhance literature monitoring strategies while remaining cost-effective or freely accessible. Participants will explore additional databases and repositories—including CORE, CrossRef, medRxiv, and bioRxiv—and discover how emerging technologies such as automation tools, APIs, citation management systems, and artificial intelligence can support more efficient searching, filtering, and analysis of scientific information.
Through practical examples and hands-on guidance, the course aims to help professionals broaden their monitoring capabilities, streamline workflows, and stay up to date with the rapidly evolving biomedical information landscape.
Programme
During the training, the following topic will be taken into consideration:
- PubMed and Medline: a quick presentation
- PubMed’s main competitors (e.g. Embase)
- New/useful PubMed features that facilitate searches
- Additional free sources
- PubMed Central
- Core
- CrossRef
- NCBI Bookshelf
- MedXRiv
- BioXRiv
- Case examples
- APIs and automated searches
- Machine-aided classification, summarization, and analysis with examples
- Overview of AI based technologies
- Hands on exercises on advanced strategies and their implementation in PubMed
- Hands on exercises on other sources
Scientific Documentation Specialists, Medical Affairs Managers and Officers, Pharmacovigilance Specialists.
Participant experience
Basic operational knowledge of PubMed and/or of other bibliographical database.
Each module will comprise lectures, practical hands-on exercises, final review questionnaire.
Docente/i
Marco Anelli
Marco has a medical degree from the University of Milan, specializations in Medical Statistics and Clinical Pharmacology from the University of Pavia and an international master’s degree in health economics and pharmacoeconomics from the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, plus formal training in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. In the last few years, he has extensively worked in the fields of pharmacoeconomics and health technology assessment. Marco has been a free-lance consultant in Medical Affairs and Pharmacovigilance/ Drug Safety since 2022. Before that, he has been “Head of Pharmacovigilance and Medical Affairs Advisory Services” at ProductLife Group (PLG). As “Deputy Chief Scientific Officer”, always at PLG, Marco has also coordinated all delivery and research projects (internal and on behalf of clients) linked to Big Data, Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Previously, Marco was R&D Director at Keypharma, an Italy-based consultancy company (later acquired by PLG), where was responsible for the oversight of all clinical and preclinical aspects of projects run internally and on behalf of clients. Drawing on a career in the pharmaceutical industry that spans more than 30 years, Marco provides expert oversight on a wide range of R&D and Medical Affairs related activities. Marco has participated in and supervised all stages of drug development – from formulation to Phase I-IV and pharmacovigilance. In addition, Marco is a qualified QPPV and has prepared and overseen more than 200 non-clinical and clinical overviews and summaries. Before joining Keypharma and PLG, Marco was Medical Affairs Director at Eurand.
Online Training – 2 modules
Module 1 | 02 November 2026 from 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm CET
Module 2 | 04 November 2026 from 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm CET
Some days before the online training you will receive all details about the connection.
The course will proceed with a minimum number of participants. Should this number not be reached the registered participants will be notified one week prior to the commencement of the course.
Early Bird: € 725,00* (until 12 October 2026)
Ordinary: € 890,00*
Freelance – Individual – Academy – Public Administration: € 485,00*
* for Italian companies: +22% VAT
The fee includes: tuitions, organizational office assistance, teaching materials and attendance certificate that will be sent after the training via e-mail.
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