Autism Research Resources

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Autism-Research Resources

• Nancy Schaefer
• NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu
• 392-1306

5/12/05
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Electronic Resources
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• Connect from your home through GatorLink or
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Library Resource Comparison
Limited to items published in last 10 years in
English on the subject Autism
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Identifying Articles

• Use a database to identify
• which articles
• in which issues
• of which journals
• are on your topic.
• It really is faster than paging through the
  journals!

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Getting to the databases
Click on either of the Databases buttons
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PubMed
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Type term. Click GO or hit ENTER
2-minute tutorials can help!
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Read all terms definitions for best match. For
general search, click Links, PubMed.
Click term (Autistic Disorder) for more specific
search
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Click NLM MeSH Browser for definitions of
subheadings
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Click checkbox(es0 to all) of specific aspect(s)
of topic you want articles to focus on.
Its easier to read thru separate searches for
all subheadings on treatment, all on etiology
than 1 big list.
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You want citations on ANY of your chosen
subheadings, so choose OR from the pull-down
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Here are all the termsubheading combinations you
selected, ready to be searched simultaneously
using OR
To remove any term, highlight it with your mouse
and hit Delete
To run the search, click Search PubMed
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You can limit even more...
by clicking the Restrict to Major Topic headings
only checkbox
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MeSH Terms summarize topical content in phrases.
Asterisks show topics on which article
concentrates most
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Previous Indexing shows terms used before the
current term. You may have to search all of them
in addition to the current term.
Too few results on your chosen term? (here,
Autistic Disorder) This bottom section of the
subheadings/major page links directly to a more
general term under which you may find more
results.
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Too many results? If you had searched on Child
Developmental Disorders, Pervasive, you could
link DOWN to a more specific term and so get
fewer results.
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PubMed automatically explodes a MeSH term (here,
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive.) That
means it automatically searches for that general
term and all the more specific terms listed
beneath it in the list of terms. If you want
ONLY general articles or articles that contain 2
or more of these specific terms, click the Do Not
Explode checkbox.
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2069 results with Autism/therapy subheadings as
Major topic!!!To limit search results, click on
the Limits tab
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• Search terms remain in search box.
• Set pull-down menus to appropriate limiting
  criteria.
• Type in 4-digit oldest acceptable year of
  publication.
• PubMed automatically includes most recent
• publications (including not-yet-published
  ones!)

Click Go to run search with limits.
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• Limits checkbox appears.
• Yellow highlighted line under Limits tab shows
  current limits.
• Limits stay on until you uncheck Limits
  checkbox or exit your session.

Now just 336 results on 17 pages.
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Has abstract.
No abstract.
Link to publishers site for POSSIBLE link to
full-text.
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UF access to full-text?

• Link to Internet thru EZProxy, Gatorlink, VPN or
  campus computer
• Come into PubMed thru HSC Library Homepage
  http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/
• Change pull-down at Display to Abstract or
  Citation

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Sample Abstract Display Format
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Sample Citation Display Format
Shows Subject headings (MeSH terms) and
subheadings
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Selecting and Output

• Click checkboxes of desired citations.
• Use pull-down to send to storage (Clipboard),
  Email, Text for printing (without sidebar or
  banner) or Order if NOT in UF libraries.

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On the Clipboard page, select citations you want
to delete BEFORE you set the pull-down to Clip
Remove. If you dont, you could lose ALL your
saved citations or just those you want to keep!
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Cant access the perfect article? Click on
Related Articles!
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The Related Articles link ignores your Limits. To
apply existing limits to Related Articles
results, click History tab and type in search set
(10 below) into search box, then hit Go.
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To view past search results of your current
PubMed sessionclick on the number under Results
on History page
To save those results and that search strategy,
click on My NCBI in the upper right corner
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Registration required but its free one-click
storage.
Select search(es) you want to revisit, run for
updates or delete, then click appropriate button.
Because of the Delete button, always sign out on
public terminals.
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Use Clinical Queries for Evidence-Based Medicine
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Incomplete or bad citation? Correct it with
Single Citation Matcher
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Link to UF HSCL online possibly full-text article
or print holdings informationvia the Abstract
or Citation display of a Results screen
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PsycINFO CINAHLhttp//www.library.health.ufl.ed
u/resources/index.htm
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Default Google-ish search with limits
truncates. That means it commands computer to
search for all words that have the same
beginning. You must have at least the first 3
letters to truncate.
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Database guides you to subject terms (like MeSH
in PubMed)
Explode and Major Concept options again! Easy
search-- click on these for one term, then hit
Search button above
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To investigate or simultaneously search on
related terms, click on the hyperlinked term.
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Results
Search terms stated above search boxes at top
right. Green tab under search boxes
Active Blue tabs Inactive
Click blue Refine Search tab for limits to reduce
of citations retrieved (6468 here)
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Set limits (too specific will 0 out your
results), click Search
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Click on folder icon or word ADD to send a
citation to Folder for later printing/emailing.
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Searching for synonyms as keywords
Combining search terms with both AND and OR in
the same search is like math without
parenthesesthe computer may not compute 2 x 3
1 the way you intend.
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Run separate searches.Clear search and Suggest
Terms boxes.Combine searches in Search History.
Click Search.
To combine OR and AND searches
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To see the abstract of a result, click on
hyperlinked article title.To see the
bibliography of the article, click on Cited
References hyperlink.
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To view/email/print/save your selected
citations, click on Folder icon or Folder has
items.
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To get to CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health
patient care-oriented database), click on Choose
Databases tab on top of screen.
Scroll down. Click on the hyperlinked word
CINAHL.
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Look familiar???
One difference is the CINAHL headings, which
include MeSH headings and additional terms for
patient-care concepts.
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To add subheadings in CINAHL like you did in
PubMed

• Click on the CINAHL Headings tab.
• Type in your term (autism in the example below.)
• Click the Browse button.
• Click the hyperlinked CINAHL term (Autistic
  Disorder.)

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• Choose as many subheadings as you wish
  (including 0).
• Click Major Concept checkbox if you anticipate
  many results.
• Click the Add button. (Keeping default OR is
  probably good.)

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The subheadings appear as 2-letter codes on the
resulting page. Click Search to run the search.
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Results are similar to those for PsycINFO.
Click this link for fulltext.
Click UF Libraries Catalog to see if UF
libraries has the print journal.
Direct link to full-text.
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Check library holdings via SFX
Indicates year journal began publication.
This journal is available at multiple UF
libraries.
Click here for full-text thru UF.
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Check library holdings thru UF libraries catalog
Click here to search for a journal.
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Type in the 2nd (Browse Organized Lists) box the
full JOURNAL title if possible, otherwise try
the abbreviation.
Note Article titles do NOT appear in the
library catalog.
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If the journal title isnt in the Library
Catalog, try the un abbreviated title on the
E-journals page.Note your options of Exact
title, Title contains words and Title begins
with.Click Search.
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Multiple databases link to the electronic version
of this journal. Note Electronic is not
necessarily full-text!
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Please contact me or my colleagues in Reference
if you have questions.
Nancy Schaefer [phone] NancyS_at_library.healt
h.ufl.edu Reference email help
http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/forms/reference.
htm (answered within 24 hours during the
week) Reference Desk 2nd floor HSC Library
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