Here you will find a list of tools that you can use to build your searches and translate your searches into different databases
Use this platform to create structured searches in visual format that can be used across multiple platforms
Use this tool to develop a search strategy based on text-mining and keyword co-occurrence networks to identify important terms to include in a search strategy.
Use this tool to translate a search query between MEDLINE Ovid and PubMed syntax
Use this tool to detect errors in a search query
Use this tool to build and generate a PICO search strategy
This citation analyzer can be used to analyze a "Gold Standard" of citations exported from an OVID database and build search strategies
This tool can be used to map and build search strategies in the OVID databases
This tool can be used to edit and test your search strategy in the OVID databases
Part of the Systematic Review Accelerator tools. Polyglot can be used to translate the syntax of a search block/strategy from one database to another. Search strategies must be checked carefully as e.g. thesaurus terms are not translated, but rather the syntax of the term is changed
Use this tool to use Venn Diagrams to build search strategies in PubMed
Use this tool to build a search string for pharmaceuticals and drugs in bibliographic databases
This page was last updated on 24 June 2025.