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Psychiatric Assessment Service Centre
Library Instruction SessionNovember 1, 2007
Session Presenter: Marcus Vaska
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Research Goals
• Select and refine topic
• Develop an effective search strategy
• Choose or select an appropriate database, e-journal, online reference source, etc.
• Cite your sources and use an approved style guide
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Session Outline
• Health Information Network Calgary– Brief introduction– Register for a library account
• Literature Search Process– PICO– WISPR
• Research Databases (Point of Care)– UpToDate – EBM Reviews (ACP Journal Club) – Natural Standard
• Literature Searching Techniques– Summary of literature review– OVID databases (Medline, PsycINFO)
• E-Journals
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Health Information Networkhttp://hinc.ucalgary.ca
• Collaboration between the University of Calgary Library and the Calgary Health Region
• Partnership formed in July 2005, with the Tom Baker Cancer Centre joining the alliance in March 2007
• Mission: “to provide access to library collections and services and training to help use these resources effectively.”
Adapted from Taryn J. Lenders
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Health Information NetworkKnowledge Centres
• Health Sciences Library (University of Calgary)– Phone: 220-6855/220-6857, e-mail: [email protected]
• Alberta Children’s Hospital– Phone: 955-7077, e-mail: [email protected]
• Peter Lougheed Centre– Phone: 943-4737, e-mail: [email protected]
• Rockyview General Hospital– Phone: 943-3373, e-mail: [email protected]
• Tom Baker Cancer Centre– Phone: 521-3765, e-mail: [email protected]
• Women’s Health Centre– Phone: 944-2267, e-mail: [email protected]
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Health Information NetworkServices
• Teaching and information service (evidence-based practice)
• Literature searches• Interlibrary Loan (obtain books and articles
from various institutions worldwide)• Family resource centre (information
assistance for patients and their families)• Outreach programs
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Health Information NetworkRegistering for a Library Account
• From the main HIN home page, click on Register for a Library Account
• If you do not yet have a library account, please fill out the Health Information Network Borrower Registration form.
• Click Submit
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Before the Search Begins
• Organize your search so that you know what you are searching for before beginning your trek.
• These searching tools can help you become better organized:– PICO– WISPR
BEGIN WITH RESEARCH DATABASES!
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Literature Search Processhttp://webapps2.ucalgary.ca/~commons/servlet/wispr/app?
service=page/GENERIC-Home
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Refining a Search
• Boolean Operators– AND (narrows search, retrieving records containing all of the terms)– OR (broadens search, retrieving records containing any of the terms)– NOT (excludes terms from a search, retrieving records that do not contain the term
following it.)
• Truncation/Wildcard– * system* = returns records on system, systems, systematic– ? wom?n = returns records on both woman and women (singular and plural forms)
• Nesting – Parenthesis, () keep related terms together
If searching for an exact phrase, enclose phrase in quotation marks, “”
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UpToDate
• Dementia, treatment and therapy
• Keywords: dementia, treatment, therapy
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UpToDate
• Evidence-based, synthesized medical information• Updated every 4 months (latest release: version
15.3-October 2007)• Includes topic reviews, differential diagnoses, new
findings, etc., all written by physician experts• As a web-based product, information can be
located and retrieved within minutes
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ACP Journal Club
• Dementia, therapeutic issues
• Keywords: dementia, therapeutic
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A Brief Note on SFX
• Provides a link between several databases and full-text articles (note that NLM is NOT linked to SFX)
• Not only does SFX automatically search the library catalogue for electronic holdings, it also notifies the user when material is not available online
• For more information, please consult http://library.ucalgary.ca/services/finditsfxfulltextservice/whatisfindit-sfx.php
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ACP Journal Club Saving a Search
• Scroll to the Results Manager box at the bottom of the results retrieved screen
• Choice to print, e-mail, or save records• To save a record:
– Click on the save button (the one with the computer disk)
– In the following screen select Windows Style Linefeeds, make sure the Include Search Strategy box is checked, and click Continue.
– The results will be saved as a text (txt) file.
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Natural Standard(complementary and alternative therapies)
• Sample search topic: treatment and therapy for patients with dementia
• Keywords, dementia, therapy (therapeutic), treatment
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Purpose of Conducting a Literature Review
• Determine existing knowledge (what literature has been written on a topic)
• Identify gaps in existing knowledge• Identify research designs and methodologies• Identify other researchers in the areas of interest• Provide context for research (build on and add
meaning to existing literature)
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Literature vs. Systematic Review
• Literature Review– Account of what has
already been published on a topic
– Describe, summarize, evaluate, and clarify literature
– Is NOT merely a summary of existing literature
• Systematic Review– Brings together findings
from range of research interventions
– Aim is to identify as many relevant studies as possible around a topic
– Research process is systematic to minimize bias
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Medline PsycINFO
• Evaluation of Mental Health Services
• Keywords: “mental health services”, evaluation
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Medline and PsycINFOSaving a Search
• Scroll to the Results Manager box at the bottom of the results retrieved screen
• Choice to print, e-mail, or save records• As an OVID product, saving in PsycINFO and EBM
Reviews is identical to saving in Medline• To save a record:
– Click on the save button (the one with the computer disk)– In the following screen select Windows Style Linefeeds, make sure
the Include Search Strategy box is checked, and click Continue. – The results will be saved as a text (txt) file.
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Database Helplines
• UpToDate: http://www.uptodate.com/subscribers/user_manual/index.asp
• Natural Standard Interactive Demo: http://www.naturalstandard.com.hinc.lib.ucalgary.ca
• General help for all databases with the OVID Provider (ACP Journal Club, Medline, PsycINFO): http://www.ovid.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/site/docs/owg_uman.pdf
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Peer-Reviewed Journals
• Scholarly periodical; each article submitted for publication is judged, independently, by a panel of experts
• Characteristics of a peer-reviewed journal:– Formal– Cited sources (footnotes and/or a bibliography)– Authored by scholars and researchers– Purpose of article is to publish results of research– Publisher is a prominent organization or research institution
Please consult http://www.library.uiuc.edu/alx/peer.htm for more information
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E-Journals
• E-Journals– Accessed from the Health Information
Network home page (http://hinc.ucalgary.ca) by clicking on the E-Journals tab.
– E-Journals are all listed alphabetically
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The End
• This concludes today’s session. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you! – Marcus Vaska
• E-mail: [email protected]
• Phone: 220-5319