Resources for MDHS

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Resources for MDHS PG Nursing 2009
Information Awareness and Literacy Services
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Overview

• Library Homepage
• Library Catalogue
• SuperSearch
• Using Popular Databases and MDHS resource sets
• Finding electronic journals
• Find an item
• Understanding links to resources
• Google Scholar
• CINAHL Plus
• Web of Science (ISI)
• Scopus
• Resources in the Biomedical Library and virtual
  tour
• Help

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Library Homepage

• Starting point to access library resources
  including
• Library catalogue
• Supersearch
• Book classes
• Research help
• Latest news and events

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Library Catalogue

• The Library Catalogue is the best source to find
  
• books (including electronic books)
• Reports
• Theses
• Hard copy (printed) journals

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SuperSearch and MDHS

• One single interface to search, retrieve and view
  results on library resources including print
  and electronic
• Multi-database resource set
• First point of call for journal articles

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MDHS Subject Sets

• Comprehensive lists of Searchable resources
• General Same as MDHS Resource set
• Journals and Indexes
• Books and Reviews
• Evidence Based Databases
• Health Sciences (Nursing and Physiotherapy)
• Population Health
• Psychology Psychiatry
• Population Health - includes education and
  environmental health resources
• Psychology and Psychiatry
• Alphabetic arrangement (apart from general set)
• Can create your own subject set of databases
  using my stuff

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Resource set search

• Login using UniMelb/Student login and password
• Go to MDHS Resource Set
• Health Sciences (Nursing and Physiotherapy)
• Search Title acute pain
• AND
• All fields children

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Finding electronic journals

• Select tab
• Key in a journal title eg. Critical care nurse
• Select the journal name hyperlink or
  button to find holdings
• Select button to go to the journal
  website

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Find a journal article

• Click on the tab (in
  ejournals)
• Fill in the details of a citation, for
  exampleJournal of Orthopaedic NursingVolume
  12, Issue 2, May 2008, Pages 90-98 Documenting
  and implementing evidence-based post-operative
  pain management in older patients with hip
  fractures
• Author Eid

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Links to Resources

• OR
• Lists various sources, interlibrary loans and an
  option to search Google for the item
• Links to a particular source or item from a
  Source it list
• CrossRef
• Links to a website containing the resource. You
  may or may not have access.

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Links to Resources

• Full text HTML
• Full text PDF
• Usually these terms indicate a link to the full
  article directly.

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CINAHL

• Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health
  Literature
• Over 1 million records from 1981-
• Indexes almost 3,000 journals from the fields of
  nursing and allied health
• Covers nursing, physiotherapy, consumer health
  and allied health sciences.
• Subject classification for nursing and
  physiotherapy areas.
• Links to cited references and full text

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CINAHL Search Example

• Go to Basic Search tab.
• Search knee injuries AND emergency
• Limit to Publication year 2000 to 2009
• Journal subset Nursing
• Sort your results by Relevance.

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Web of Science

• Indexes over 10000 journals across many
  disciplines
• Includes links to cited references, citing
  references and related articles
• Can refine your results by broad subject area and
  other criteria
• Includes links to full text

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SCOPUS

• Covers 29 million abstracts of over 15,000
  peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000
  publishers
• Can refine results by subject, keyword,
  publication type
• Lists citing papers

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Cochrane Library

• The Cochrane Library contains high-quality,
  independent evidence to inform healthcare
  decision-making
• Browse by topic or construct a keyword search
• Clinical Trials and high quality systematic
  reviews

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Google Scholar

• Familiar Google interface for articles, books and
  academic websites
• Go to Find Database. Search Google OR See MDHS
  Subject set
• Search results ranked by Google algorithm
• Links to cited articles and full text
• Very easy to use

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Resources in the Biomedical Library

• 5,000 textbooks for overnight and 7 day loan
  (first floor)
• 100,000 books for 4 week loan (second floor and
  basement)
• Print journal collections
• Reference collection
• Computers with Internet and Office
• Photocopiers
• Lots of study spaces

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BROWNLESS BIOMEDICAL LIBRARY
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LOANS DESK GROUND FLOOR

• Up to 30 / 60 items at a time
• Email notification
• CAVAL Borrowing
• Self Checkout
• Place items on Hold
• Copy / Printing Cards

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INFORMATION SERVICE AND COMPUTERS GROUND FLOOR

• Item location
• Information assistance
• Database assistance

• Catalogue access
• World wide web
• Electronic databases and journals
• Wireless network for laptops
• Laptop loans

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Help

• Service desks in Biomedical and Baillieu
  libraries
• Telephone [phone]
• Contact us links to Online library inquiry
• Research Help to arrange a research consultation
• Supersearch help screens
• Database tutorials and help
• Classes

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Thank you!

• Thanks for attending todays session