Transcript Rehabilitating Your Search Skills

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access to databases, e-journals and e-books
Useful RC & PH Databases
Database Name
Focus
PsycINFO
Psychology, psychiatry
CINAHL
Patient care, nursing, allied
health (not much PH, tho)
Academic Search Premier
Full-text peer-reviewed
journals
PubMed
Medical treatment,
anatomy, health policy,
administration
Education/training
ERIC
Toxline
Green=EBSCO databases
Toxicology/toxic releases,
haz. chemicals, enviro health
Yellow = Cambridge Scientific databases
Here
they
are
PsycINFO –
Start by searching your term in the
Thesaurus
1. Type term. Change
radio button to
“Relevancy Ranked.”
2. Hit
[Browse].
3. Click on best term.
Exploring Thesaurus
terms
To simultaneously
search both the general
& specific terms, click
checkbox under Explode
x
+ means more specific
terms exist.
Full record
Major concepts
indicated by *
Results
Folder”=list of citations
you’ve selected.
Click on Add (1 - #) if you
want every citation on the
page selected for
printing/saving/emailing.
Click on Add or
the folder icon
to select this
citation.
Click on title hyperlink to see abstract
For additional articles on your topic . . .
Click on Cited References link to view an
article’s bibliography, even if you can’t get
full text of the rest of the article!
Sample “Cited References” page
Possible link to
full-text online
Linking through SFX
Print journal
Refine Search
To limit # of
retrievals by
adding more
criteria, type in
or use pulldowns under
Refine Search
tab.
Working with Selected Records
Click on
icon or words above results
list to get to a list of citations you’ve selected.
Then choose desired output function.
Advanced Search
3 search boxes!
* = Truncate = add * to
at least 3 letters at
beginning of word to get
all word variations that
start same way.
Here rehabilitat* finds:
rehabilitate,
rehabilitates,
rehabilitated,
rehabilitatation
rehabilitations.
More about Advanced Search
To require a term
to be in a
particular “field”
(part of the
citation), use the
pull-downs to the
right of the
search box.
Click checkboxes to change or choose
multiple databases to search
If changing databases,
unclick checkbox of
“old” database when
you click checkbox of
“new”
Click
at top or
bottom of page to get to
search page
Searching multiple databases
simultaneously?
You will not get a thesaurus of subject
headings because different databases
use different headings.
So you will have to search on keywords rather
than on subject headings when simultaneously
searching multiple databases.
CINAHL
…almost identical to PsycINFO
The active page is indicated by a GREEN tab,
inactive in BLUE.
If you are given a thesaurus in an EBSCO
database, you can reach it via the Suggest
Terms checkbox above the search boxes in
.
Adding subheadings in CINAHL
Click on
subject term
to see which
subheadings
are available
for that term.
Adding subheadings to a subject heading in CINAHL
3
2
1. Click one or
more
subheading
checkboxes.
2. Make sure pulldown is at OR
if including 2+
subheadings.
3. Click [Search] .
1
Search for items in a particular journal
Under Publications
tab’s Browse for
search box, Relevancy
Ranked is probably
the more useful
option.
PubMed – 16 million records and
Click here
on any page
to return to
this basic
search page
growing!
Keyword search with truncation
and phrase searching to get most
recent citations (generally
published within the past week)
Anatomy of a PubMed citation
Links to possible
electronic full-text
Abstract
Major
subject
Subject headings
summarize topics
discussed in
article in 1.
Each citation has unique ID #
Simple, general search by Medical
Subject Heading (MeSH)
History
First clear your
search box.
Then type the # sign and
set numbers combined
with AND or OR or NOT in
the search box at the top
of the page or….
click on the set #
in the table under
Search. Use the
resulting pulldowns under
Options to move
the search into
the search box.
More specific subject heading search
Click checkbox to add a subheading to specify
aspect of topic and/or to limit to articles focusing
mainly on your topic.
To simultaneously search on
multiple aspects (subheadings)…
Click their checkboxes, then select the appropriate
connector (AND /OR/NOT) from the SEND TO pulldown.
Edit
If you want to change your search
before running it, highlight text
and hit DELETE or type in terms
OR click in more checkboxes
before you click [Search PubMed]
These results need limiting!
Lines here means PubMed has an abstract for this article
To set limits:
Reminder above
results list of
limits currently
set
Limits stay
on for rest
of search
session, tho
they are not
applied to
Related
articles
searches.
Selecting Records
Orange = free fulltext thru PubMed !
Green = electronic
available but not
necessarily via
PubMed.
Clipboard
Check at least one
citation before you
click [Send to] with
Clip Remove or it’ll
remove ALL!
Emailing
Records
Emailing Page
Change order of
citations here.
Will appear as email from
[email protected] - be careful
about deleting unopened!!!
Correcting bad citations
Use Single Citation
Matcher and
whatever info you
have to complete an
incomplete citation.
If you find a
reference contains
incorrect info, type
in the words and
leave out one # at a
time.
Most referencing
errors are in the
volume, issue and
page numbers.
Public Health – Special Queries
Journals Database
“Translate” full titles
to title abbreviations
if required for
publication or
translate title
abbreviations to full
titles to locate
journals on shelves at
HSCL
Click on [Links], then [PubMed] for all
citations from this journal in PubMed
Web of Science
Contains 3
databases: Science,
Soc Sci and
Arts/Humanities
Use this to
investigate the
development of a
topic from the
citation you chose
in PubMed
Cited Reference Search
Type in info.
Click Search.
Locate exact article you want
Click View Record for abstract and links.
Cited References =
sources author used in
writing this article
Times Cited =
articles that have
used this article in
subsequent
development of the
idea(s)
Strictly biomedical
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
http://www.bioone.org/
Multidisciplinary
http://highwire.stanford.edu/
http://www.doaj.org/
Multidisciplinary older issues
http://www.jstor.org/
Electronic medical books
http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/
Free ejournal/
book
sources
Ulrich’s International Periodicals
Directory
- Check
if peerreviewed
-MAYbe
full-text
access
Advanced search
Full text available thru Ulrich’s?
Legend and icons show 2 of 4 titles
with “rehabilitation counseling” in
the title are
peer-reviewed/refereed.
For Help with Databases
• Attend one of the library’s free classes on
using its databases.
• Or use our tutorials and handouts from the
classes to figure out on your own how the
different databases work.
Tutorials for databases
This PubMed
tutorial lets you
choose
individual
database
functions to
learn about.
Each is brief.
Tutorials for other Databases
ERIC help
here
PsycINFO,
PubMed help here
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