Finding Resources

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Finding Resources

• SPH Office of Research Seminar Series

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What are obstacles to searching?

• Knowing where to go for articles
• Knowing if youre doing it right
• Finding full text
• Using the right words
• Others?

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Todays plan

• Choosing the right database
• Search lessons practice
• Google Scholar
• ISI Web of Science
• break
• PubMed
• evaluation

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Themes throughout

• Searching by author topic
• Find full text
• What if not available electronically?
• Related articles
• Incomplete citations
• ALWAYS get databases via HSL webpage
  http//www.hsl.unc.edu

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Choosing a database

• Google Scholar mish-mash
• ISI arts, social sciences, sciences
• PubMed biomedical, public health, clinical
• PsycInfo psychology
• ERIC - education
• CINAHL nursing allied health
• Some others on handout

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Google Scholar

• What is it?
• A subset of Google Web Search that searches for
  scholarly literature
• Theses
• Journal articles
• Reports
• Conference proceedings

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Google Scholar

• Why use it?
• Easy
• Synonyms
• Related materials
• Full-text options
• Helps with incomplete citations

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Google Scholar

• Why use it?
• Easy
• Synonyms
• Related materials
• Full-text
• Helps with incomplete citations

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Google Scholar http//scholar.google.com/
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Google Scholar

• Why use it?
• Easy
• Synonyms
• Related materials
• Full-text
• Helps with incomplete citations

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Google Scholar

• Why use it?
• Easy
• Synonyms
• Related materials
• Full-text
• Helps with incomplete citations

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Google Scholar

• Why use it?
• Easy
• Synonyms
• Related materials
• Full-text
• Helps with incomplete citations

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Google Scholar
Health Sciences Library http//www.hsl.unc.edu

• Access via http//www.hsl.unc.edu

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Google Scholar
HSL More Databases http//www.hsl.unc.edu/Database
s/EIDSearch.cfm

• Access via http//www.hsl.unc.edu

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Google Scholar
Google Scholar _at_ UNC http//www.lib.unc.edu/instru
ct/googlescholar/index.htm

• Access via http//www.hsl.unc.edu

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Google Scholar
Google Scholar http//scholar.google.com/

• Access via http//www.hsl.unc.edu

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Google Scholar
Google Scholar Preferences http//scholar.google.c
om/scholar_preferences?

• Access via http//www.hsl.unc.edu

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Google Scholar

• Why use it?
• Easy
• Synonyms
• Related materials
• Full-text
• Helps with incomplete citations

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Google Scholar

• Weaknesses
• Authority
• Incomplete coverage
• Inconsistent full-text links

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ISI Citation Databasesa.k.a. Web of Science, Web
of Knowledge

• What is it?
• Search scholarly materials across disciplines
• Science
• Social sciences
• Arts humanities

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ISI Citation Databases

• Why use it?
• Easy
• Synonyms
• Related materials
• Organize your results
• Full-text options

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Google Scholar
Health Sciences Library http//www.hsl.unc.edu

• Access via http//www.hsl.unc.edu

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ISI Citation Databases

• Why use it?
• Easy
• Synonyms
• Related materials
• Organize your results
• Full-text options

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ISI Citation Databases

• Why use it?
• Easy
• Synonyms
• Related materials
• Organize your results
• Full-text options

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ISI Citation Databases

• Why use it?
• Easy
• Synonyms
• Related materials
• Organize your results
• Full-text options

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ISI Citation Databases

• Why use it?
• Easy
• Synonyms
• Related materials
• Organize your results
• Full-text options

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ISI Citation Databases

• Why use it?
• Easy
• Synonyms
• Related materials
• Organize your results
• Full-text options

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PubMed

• What is it?
• Premier biomedical database
• Clinical
• Public health
• Nursing
• Science
• Psychology
• Others health related

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PubMed

• Why use it?
• Gold standard
• Maps to MeSH AND search words
• Related materials
• Full-text options

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Synonyms
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Mapping MeSH and search words

• Click on the Details tab
• How PM processed the search

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MeSH as Synonyms

• Find article w. PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE

• Change to Citation view

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MeSH as Synonyms
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Related articles
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Full Text Options

• Select article, look for icon

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Full text - if no icon

• Check the UNC library catalog
• Enter Journal Title

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Getting help
http//www.hsl.unc.edu
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InterLibrary Loan (ILL)

• If HSL doesnt have it
• http//www.hsl.unc.edu/illiad/logon.html

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Questions?

• Evaluation form
• http//www.hsl.unc.edu/Events/PHR/evaluationform.
  cfm
• Next Session is EndNote
• Tuesday, March 6, 10-1130am