Content Resources

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Content Resources
Current and Completed Research Projects Database
How to Search the Database
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Objectives

• Explain the Benefits and Scope of the Databases
• Provide training on the Advanced User Interface
• Explian the formulation of search strategies

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Benefits of the Project Database

• Facilitate access to bibliographic information on
  grey literature e.g. dissertations, theses and
  research projects
• Assist students with the
• Identification of gaps in a research field
• Consultation of similar studies to assist with
  research methodology
• Identification of recommended research included
  in the theses or dissertations that provides
  opportunities for further investigations
• Evaluation and analysis of completed studies in
  order to arrive at new solutions, policies, etc.
  (Literature reviews)
• Provide information to identify experts in a
  specific field of study
• Stimulate research in neglected areas
• Encourage networking and collaboration between
  researchers
• Facilitate research capacity development
• Facilitate informed decision making and strategic
  management

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Advanced Search Interface
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Advanced User Interface

• Training includes
• Enter a keyword search
• Display and select records
• Practical exercise
• Browse, Save, Print and E-mail search results
• Explain the formulation of search strategies
• Practical exercise
• Demo the other search interfaces of the Advanced
  User Interface

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Full Record
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Select Records
Select records
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Practical Exercise

• Drug abuse
• Abused women
• Child prostitution under age 18
• Rehabilitation of heart disease
• Cell proliferation

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Browse, Print and Save Results

• Browse and Print per Set as Displayed
• Print per Set with the Browsers File/Print
  Facility
• Browse and Save per Set as Displayed
• Use Browsers File/Save as and save the set c/my
  documents/filename.txt
• Browse, Print and Save Selected Records
• Select records
• Click on the Display selected records Button
• Browse, print and save per Set as Displayed
  (selection)

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E-mail Results

• E-mail Search Results (whole set)
• Use the E-mail Facility to e-mail the whole set
  as retrieved
• Complete the From entry box
• Enable System Administrator to direct results to
  the correct person
• Use Browsers File/Save as and save the set c/my
  documents/filename.txt
• Important for funny text with e-mail
  facility
• MAPPI compliancy. Solution save Results as
  filename.txt
• E-mail Search Results (selected records)
• Select records
• Click on the Display Selected Records button
• E-mail whole set of selected records

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Tea Break

• To Exit Use the Log out Button

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Advanced User Interface

• Training on the Advanced Keyword Interface
• Enter a keyword search
• Display and select records
• Hands-on examples
• Browse, Save, Print and E-mail search results
• Explain the formulation of search strategies
• Hands-on examples
• Demo the other search interfaces of the Advanced
  User Interface

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How to Formulate Search Strategies
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Search Techniques

• Boolean Logic defines logical relationships
  between terms in a query. The Boolean search
  operators are
• And
• Or
• Not

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And Operator

• Find A and B
• The And operator combines search terms so that
  each search result contains all the terms. For
  example, type HIV and education to find articles
  that contain both HIV and education.

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Or Operator

• Find A or B
• The Or operator combines search terms so that
  each search result contains at least one of the
  terms. For example, type college or university to
  find results that contain either college or
  university.

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Not Operator

• Find A not B
• The Not operator excludes terms so that each
  search result does not contain any of the terms
  that follow the Not operator. For example, type
  HIV not education to find results that contain
  the term HIV but not the term education.

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Adj Operator

• Find A adjacent B
• The adj proximity search operator is similar to
  the AND Boolean operator but finds records with
  the terms adjacent to each other. For example
  child adj abuse will finds child adjacent to
  abuse.

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Wildcards and Truncation

• A question mark (?) stands for a single unknown
  character.
• An asterisk () stands for any number of unknown
  characters or no characters.
• These symbols can be used at any position in a
  search term, or in more than one place at the
  same time

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Wildcards and Truncation
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Formulate a Search Strategy

• This process includes the
• analyzing of a search topic into concepts
• planning approaches to determine the
  relationships between the concepts and combining
  the concepts using operators

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Identify Concepts

• Psychological aspects of child abuse
• Identify and analyze concepts
• Establish relevant keywords for each concept
  Knowledge of Subject Area - Thesaurus
• child, children, youngster, juvenile, toddler,
  teenager
• abuse, abuses, abused, molesting, maltreat,
  neglect
• psychology, psychological

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Construct Search Logically

• Combining concepts relationships and use of
  truncation
• Child or young or toddler or teenage or
  juvenile or youth
• Abuse or molest or maltreat or neglect
• psycholog

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Combine Three Concepts

• Combining concepts relationships as for
  mathematical functions
• (2x3)(42)(12)11
• ((child or young or toddler or teenage or
  juvenile or youth) and (abuse or molest or
  maltreat or neglect)) and (psycholog)

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Input into Retrieval System

• To formulate a search statement
• analyze and identify concepts
• establish keywords for concepts
• define relationships and combine logically
• identify searchable fields
• enter search strategy

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Records Displayed
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Limit a Topic by Discipline

• ((child or young or toddler or teenage or
  juvenile or youth) and (abuse or molest or
  maltreat or neglect)) and (psycholog)
• Psychology define the topic child abuse to a
  specific discipline
• How to limit your topic search by discipline?

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Click on Discipline for Specific Codes
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Limit your Search
Limit your search
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Limitation by Year
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Limitation by Year
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Limitation by Year
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Construct Search Logically

• Rehabilitation of heart diseases
• heart, cardiology, myocardium, thromboses,
  coronary, arteries, aorta, angina, hypertension,
  aneurysms, arrhythmia
• rehabilitation, medicine, drugs, therapy,
  healing, drugs, pharmacology

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Practical Exercise

• Drug abuse
• Abused women
• Child prostitution under age 18
• Rehabilitation of heart diseases
• Cell proliferation

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Presentations

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