Rehabilitating Your Search Skills

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RehabilitatingYour Search Skills
Nancy Schaefer 392-1306 NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.
edu
October 6, 2004
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Trouble finding stuff in the library ?
Time to rehab your search skills !
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Start here --http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/
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Wed love you to visit but you may not need to!
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Activate Gator1 ID Cards Online
On Health Science Center Library homepage
Under Off-Campus Access tab, drag down to
Getting Started Find Activate your Gator 1
card near top of page Click on Go here
link Fill out form
OR
UnderServices/Forms tab, drag down to Activate
Gator 1 Card Fill out form
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EZProxy for long-distance
access to databases, e-journals and e-books
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Searching for an article? Start with a
database!
Why?
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Wanna bet on how quickly you can find an article
on your topic by just browsing OUR library?
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Useful RC Databases
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Database universals
They look different, but most bibliographic
databases share the same functions. The 15
slides of the Databasics tutorial explains these
universals. Moving between databases--as
Rehab Counselors often need to doshould be
easier after youve learned to look for and use
these universals.
databases that identify articles on a topic or
by a certain author
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Here they are!
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PsycINFO Start by searching your term in the
Thesaurus
Click on best term.
Hit Browse.
Change radio button to Relevancy Ranked.
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Exploring Thesaurus terms
To simultaneously search both the general
specific terms, click checkbox under Explode
x
means more specific
terms exist.
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Your turn
Search on Dual Relationships. Which Related
Terms could you Explode?
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Search 2 ideas simultaneously
In BROWSE FOR search box, type 2nd term. Hit
Browse
FIND search box contains 1st term
Pull down AND or OR
Click Add, then click Search
Click checkbox of 2nd term
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Full record
Major concepts indicated by
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Your turn
Use Dual Relationships as your 1st term. Browse
for the term that best fits the concept of sexual
dual relationships in the counseling setting.
Click its checkbox. Check the pull-down AND or
OR? Click Add
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Results
Folder is the list of citations youve selected.
Click on Add (1-20) 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 full record
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Click on Cited References link to see an
articles bibliography-- even if you cant get
full text of the rest of the article!
For additional articles on your topic . . .
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Sample Cited References page
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Your turn
Run your search on Dual Relationships and
Professional Client Sexual Relationships. Look
through your results. How many link to full
text? Besides title and author, how do Citations
1 and 3 differ? How does Citation 2 differ
from either of them? Which link of which
citation would give you the most related articles
for further research?
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Working with Selected Records
Click on icon or words above
results list
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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.
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More about Advanced Search
Use your 3 search boxes to specify which field
(part of the citation) each term must appear in.
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Click checkboxes to change or choose multiple
databases to search
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CINAHL

• Search simultaneously with PsycINFO via Choose
  Databases
• But since they dont have the same DESCRIPTORS,
  you cant search thesaurus terms in a
  simultaneous search

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CINAHL
Almost identical to PsycINFO
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Adding subheadings in CINAHL
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Adding subheadings
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Refine Search
Type in, click checkboxes and select from the
pull-downs to impose limits on search results
(and have fewer results to scan thru!)
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Your Turn
Change databases to CINAHL. Search CINAHL for
ethical/legal issues in assisted suicide. How
many results do you get? REFINE that search to
Expert peer-reviewed journal articles published
in or after the year 2000. Now how many results
do you have?
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Publications Index/Search on CINAHL
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Your turn
Search on Journal of Rehabilitation Counseling
(no need to type the capitals.)
If CINAHL doesnt contain such a journal, which
others does the database suggest you try?
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Wheres ERIC?
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
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Use Cambridge Scientific for multi-database search
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Choose databases to search simultaneously
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Build your search

• Type in terms
• Click checkboxes to limit
• Type in publication date range
• Use Show pull-down to select display format
• Click Search button

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Results
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View (complete) Record Display
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Quick (more general) Search
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Remove duplicates
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Check Results from Other Databases
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Mark and View Marked Records
Possible link to full-text online
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SFX Link
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Emailing/Printing Selected Records
Make a biblio-graphy
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Show Results Combined
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Thesaurus
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Search History Alerts
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Searching by Medical Subject Heading (Descriptor)
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Simple, General Search
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More specific search
Add a subheading to specify aspect of topic AND
/ ORLimit to articles in which your topic is
the/a central focus
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Or simultaneously search on multiple aspects
(subheadings)
Pull down the right connector (AND /OR/NOT)
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Edit
To run search, click Search PubMed
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These results need limiting!
Lines here means PubMed has an abstract for this
article
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To set limits
Then reminder of what limits are currently set
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Your turn
Find articles in which either Ethics or
Legislation/Jurisprudence of Prenatal Testing are
the major topics. Limit to English Review
articles on humans published from 2000 on.
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Selecting Records
Orange means free full-text through PubMed !
Green means electronic available but not
necessarily in PubMed.
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Clipboard
Have SOMETHING checked before you click Send to
with Clip Remove or itll remove ALL!
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Emailing Records
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Emailing Page
Make sure this number is INCLUSIVE 50 if you
want to send 21 records, 100 if youre trying to
send 67
Will appear as email from nobody_at_ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- dont delete unopened!!!
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Correcting bad citations
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Journals Database
Click on Links, then PubMed for all citations
from this journal in PubMed
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For Help with Databases

• Attend one of the librarys free classes on using
  its databases.
• Or use our class Handouts from the classes on
  your own to figure out on your own how the
  different databases work.

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Tutorials for databases
This PubMed tutorial lets you choose individual
database functions to learn about. Each is brief.
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Tutorials for other Databases
PsycINFO, PubMed help here
ERIC help here
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Ask a Librarian
Reference Desk 392-3585 2nd floor,
HSCL Mon-Thurs 9-530 Friday 9-5

• RefeXpress (upper left, library home page)
• Email a Reference Question

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Ask Me!
Nancy Schaefer Phone [phone] NancyS_at_library.he
alth.ufl.edu Office Communicore Building C2-26E
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• Electronic ? full-text!
• Maybe only Table of Contents or Abstracts
• Dont expect full-text before 1995
• E-journals journals we get thru databases

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Searching
Type (words of) title
Thenclick!
Unsure of exact title?
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For journals NOT in E-Journals list

• On library homepage, click on Catalog
• Click on Journals/Serials

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Use Browse Organized Lists

• Use 2nd/bottom search box
• Default Title Begins With
• Type journal (NOT article) title
• Full generally not abbreviated title
• Ignore a, an, the when theyre first word of
  title
• Dont bother with capital letters

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Catalog Results
Youll see one title before your target title
should appear in the alphabetic results list and
several after it
Click on title link for more info
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More info
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Full Record Catalog Display
Holdings summarizes the run of the journal
(earliest to most recent issue held in library)
All items lists every issue held on library
shelves its circulation status
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Your turn
Search on Journal of Counseling and
Development (no need to type the capitals.)
Which library has 2004 issues?
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Advanced Search
Use this to

• Search multiple terms
• Limit results by
• publication year
• language
• format

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The catalog also gives access to E-books
edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/ jlessee/online_databases.htm

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Other free e-journal/ book sources
Strictly biomedical http//www.freemedicaljournals
.com/ http//www.biomedcentral.com/
http//www.bioone.org/ Multidisciplinary http//h
ighwire.stanford.edu/ http//www.doaj.org/ Multidi
sciplinary older issues http//www.jstor.org/
Electronic medical books http//www.freebooks4doc
tors.com/
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Other online library services

• Services/Forms tab
• at top of library homepage
• Or left sidebar button

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Thank you for your attention.
Contact me if you want help.Nancy
Schaefer392-1306NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu