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EZProxy for long-distanceaccess to databases, e-journals and e-books

Useful RC & PH DatabasesDatabase Name FocusPsycINFO 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

ERIC Education/training

Toxline Toxicology/toxic releases, haz. chemicals, enviro health

Green=EBSCO databases 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.”

1. Type term. Change radio button to “Relevancy Ranked.”

3. Click on best term.

2. Hit [Browse].

Exploring Thesaurus terms

+ means more specific terms exist.

To simultaneously search both the general & specific terms, click checkbox under Explode

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Full record

Major concepts indicated by *

Results

Click on title hyperlink to see abstract

Folder”=list of citations you’ve selected.

Click on Add or the folder icon to select this citation.

Click on Add (1 - #) if you want every citation on the page selected for printing/saving/emailing.

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!

For additional articles on your topic . . .

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 pull-downs 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

* = TruncateTruncate = 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.

3 search boxes!

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

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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

1. Click one or more subheading checkboxes.

2. Make sure pull-down is at OR if including 2+ subheadings.

3. Click [Search] .

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Search for items in a particular journal

Under Publications tab’s Browse for search box, Relevancy Ranked is probably the more useful option.

Under Publications tab’s Browse for search box, Relevancy Ranked is probably the more useful option.

PubMed – 16 million records and growing!

Click here on any page to return to this basic search page

Click here on any page to return to this basic search page

Keyword search with truncation and phrase searching to get most recent citations (generally published within the past week)

Anatomy of a PubMed citation

Subject headings summarize topics discussed in article in 1.

Links to possible electronic full-textLinks to possible electronic full-text

Each citation has unique ID #Each citation has unique ID #

Abstract

Major subject

Simple, general search by Medical Subject Heading (MeSH)

History

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 pull-downs under Options to move the search into the search box.

First clear your 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 pull-down.

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 full-text 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

Will appear as email from nobody@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - be careful about deleting unopened!!!

Change order of citations here.

Correcting bad citationsUse 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

Click on [Links], then [PubMed] for all citations from this journal in PubMed

“Translate” full titles to title abbreviations if required for publication or translate title abbreviations to full titles to locate journals on shelves at HSCL

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)

Free e-journal/ book source

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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/

Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory

- Check if peer-reviewed

-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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