Course Title: Facilitating Information Literacy Education CMP071N

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• Course Title Facilitating Information Literacy
  Education CMP071N
• Daphne Grey ID 06055244/1 - Component 5
• Evaluation of Midwifery Study Day training
  activity Introduction to Maternity and Infant
  Care Database
• Slides 2-5 shown to audience. Content of
  subsequent slides shown live (Slides 13-14 could
  be omitted depending on previous knowledge of
  participants).

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Introduction to Maternity and Infant Care Database

• Daphne Grey,
• Assistant Clinical Support Librarian
• Bloomsbury Healthcare Library
• daphne.grey_at_uclh.nhs.uk

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Learning Objectives/Aims

• By the end of the session participants will be
  able to
• Access Maternity and Infant Care Database-Ovid
  version and be aware of its key functions
• Perform a search (and limit) and locate a
  Standard Search
• Many records are assigned to one or more of 475
  standard searches on key topics found using a
  field-specific index. This provides fast
  retrieval for those topics.
• View, print or save search results
• Handouts and details of a hands on exercise will
  be used.

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Maternity and Infant care Database

• Important resource for healthcare professionals
  and academics involved in care of women and
  infants.
• Contains references to over 550 International
  journals, books, and grey literature.
• Covers pregnancy, labour, birth, postnatal and
  neonatal care, and the first year of life.
• Updated monthly.
• Database coverage mainly from the mid 1980s.

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Logging on

• Go to www.hilo.nhs.uk and click on the link
  MyAthens.
• Then log on using the athens username and
  password supplied and go to resources.
• Click on the link ovid-online (second from last
  in the list)
• Choose Maternity and Infant Care database

Access to the database in the library is not
restricted by password
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Main search page
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The search screen

• There is a single search box with various limits
  options at the bottom of the page
• Keyword, author title or Journal title fields are
  visible.
• Click More Fields to see other fields such as the
  Standard Search

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Running a Search

• Type your first term in the search box and click
  search.
• Enter the publication years before searching if
  you want to limit this.
• To look for subject heading (descriptor) tick
  map term box before entering term
• A Combine Searches icon displays once your first
  results appear in the search history display.

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Search field/index
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Running the Standard Search 1

• Tick the Standard Search (SS) field
• Enter a broad term in the search box
• e.g.
• For placental abruption enter placenta
• For caesarean section by choice enter
  caesarean section
• Click on DISPLAY INDEXES

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Search Index
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Running the Standard Search 2

• Select the term
• Click the perform search button
• Results display will show the Placental abruption
  ss. and the number of results in the search
  history box.
• References of the latest search appear
  automatically below the search box.

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Limiting a search

• Once you have run a search you can apply limits
  to focus your search on a specific aspect of
  information contained in a record
• Click on More Limits button below the search box
• Choose which limit you want
• Eg. Choose Clinical guidelines
• Click limit a search button which appears above
  the search history

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Limit a searchdisplay
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Results Display
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Saving, displaying, emailing or printing results

• Select required results by ticking them.
• Results manager is at the bottom of results page.
• Check fields and Results format the default has
  abstract and citation and should usually be
  adequate for most purposes.
• Choose the relevant action eg. Save.

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Assessment

• You will be given an exercise sheet and be asked
  to
• Log in to database using the instructions in the
  handout provided and locate the Standard Search
  facility
• Run a search using the index in the Standard
  Search field.
• Select two of the references and save to a file
  on the desktop.