1 / 14

Lars Eriksson HHSL l.eriksson@library.uq.edu.au Jill McTaggart Joint PA Hospital/UQ Library

MBBS Honours Literature Review . Lars Eriksson HHSL l.eriksson@library.uq.edu.au Jill McTaggart Joint PA Hospital/UQ Library j.mctaggart@library.uq.edu.au. Where to find help ?. Where to find help. Summary of information on Core MBBS library website for Honours students

eamon
Download Presentation

Lars Eriksson HHSL l.eriksson@library.uq.edu.au Jill McTaggart Joint PA Hospital/UQ Library

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. MBBS Honours Literature Review Lars Eriksson HHSL l.eriksson@library.uq.edu.au Jill McTaggart Joint PA Hospital/UQ Library j.mctaggart@library.uq.edu.au

  2. Where to find help ? Where to find help • Summary of information on Core MBBS library website for Honours students • www.library.uq.edu.au/mbbs/honours.html • UQ Library web page – Services for Coursework Postgraduates - • http://www.library.uq.edu.au/services/cpg.html • UQ Student services page – PhD writing/ Literature review - • http://www.uq.edu.au/student-services/phdwriting/phfaq23.html

  3. Where to search? Start with Databases: PubMedor OVID Medline - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=iauqulib EMBASE.com - http://library.uq.edu.au/record=e1001387~S7 Cochrane Library – http://library.uq.edu.au/record=e1000701~S7 http://www.library.uq.edu.au/mbbs/ (more resources)

  4. Other Databases and resources • Web of Science – A broad selection of research literature http://library.uq.edu.au/record=e1001101~S7 • Theses – (also called Dissertations) http://www.library.uq.edu.au/catalogue/theses.html • UQ eSpace – for current UQ publications, preprints and research data http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/

  5. Searching – develop your search strategy • Define your topic and be specific – if age, gender, and date range are important add them in. The more refined your search is the more relevant the results are. • Breaking your search into parts will help you develop the search terms you will use and provide you with a search structure. (stroke OR cva OR cerebrovascular accident OR transient ischaemic attack OR tia OR apoplexy) AND (Acetylsalicylic Acid OR Aspirin)

  6. Use Boolean Searching… Combine similar words with OR Combine concepts with AND AND - narrows a search eg clothing and infection control OR – broadens a search eg myocardial infarction OR cardiovascular event NOT - excludes terms eg human not animal

  7. Database Search tips - Truncation • In most searches of database the requirements are that you want get all version of your search term. For example if you are searching for literature about children you want to return all of the results that have child, child's, children, children's etc. • By using the truncation operator you can achieve this very quickly. In most databases is an asterisk.* • To capture the search mentioned above child* would capture all of the variants of the term. • Beware as this search would also capture childbirth and childish.

  8. Database Search Tips – Phrase searching • Looking for a phrase – a phrase is a string of words in which the words have a distinct meaning when they are together. • E.g. “low back pain” • Most databases will permit a phrase search using the inverted comas around the phrase.

  9. Database Search Tips – Field Searching • Each database entry is constructed of fields. Each field represents a descriptor for the record. The most recognisable ones are title, abstract and author. • These options are often available as a menu driven search and as a search commandas well. In PubMed fields are described with square brackets []. • [ti] – Title • [tiab] – title or abstract • [ab] - abstract

  10. Tips for searching Subject Headings • Use subject headings to refine your search. Most databases index items under consistent subject headings. • E.g. the Medline subject low back pain is used for: • Back Pain, Low Back Pains, Low Low Back Pains Pain, Low Back Pains, Low Back Lumbago Lower Back Pain Back Pain, Lower Back Pains, Lower Lower Back Pains Pain, Lower Back Pains, Lower Back Low Back Ache Ache, Low Back Aches, Low Back Back Ache, Low Back Aches, Low Low Back Aches Low Backache Backache, Low Backaches, Low Low Backaches Low Back Pain, Recurrent Recurrent Low Back Pain Low Back Pain, Postural Postural Low Back Pain Low Back Pain, Mechanical Mechanical Low Back Pain Low Back Pain, Posterior Compartment

  11. Accessing full text articles • Via: • Databases – Some databases link directly to the full text via UQ - OVID Medline, PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus • UQ Library catalogue – find title of journal and link to full text • For those that are unavailable electronically use Document Delivery (Request It) • http://www.library.uq.edu.au/research-support/request-document-delivery

  12. Other methods of finding citations – who’s referencing whom? • Cited reference searching • Scopus • http://library.uq.edu.au/record=e1000127~S7 • Web of Science • http://library.uq.edu.au/record=e1001101~S7 • Google Scholar • Also look at bibliographies and studies within Systematic reviews

  13. Endnote A software package to organise your references and to create in-text citations. Available for staff and students from: http://www.library.uq.edu.au/research-support/endnote Works with MS Word to produce in-text citations and bibliographies in the reference style you want. More information: http://www.library.uq.edu.au/endnote/

  14. Finally… • Contact (Jill McTaggart) to check on or refine your search strategy • We can organize a class for further searching tips and/or how to use Endnote. • Please email j.mctaggart@uq.edu.au

More Related