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Finding Knowledge in the Digital Library Haystack

Author Additions to Chapter 11

Many of the topics in this chapter are also related to items in other chapters. If what you want is not here check the index.

Websites That Expand on Chapter 11's Knowledge

 

Electronic Bibliographic Search Tools

New York University Resources. Three tutorials that focus on research and evidence-based practice and provide help in searching the Web.
http://library.nyu.edu/research/health/tutorial/

BioMed Search.Com. This is an easy to use site that searches all of NIH/PubMed documents, plus a large collection of theses, dissertations, and other publications not found anywhere else. Articles are organized by "clusters", which essentially are topics. Clusters have sub clusters that further differentiate a topic. Searches are easy, use plain English. There is a nursing and nursing education section. If you wish, you can open a free account that allow you to save searches and documents into portfolios, make notes on your portfolios, set up alerts to be notified of new documents of interest, batch export data to excel and share your portfolios with other users and more.
http://www.biomedsearch.com/

MedlinePlus Databases. Links to National Library of Medicine sponsored databases, some like CancerLit are bibliographic search tools, DirLine locates health organizations, Jablonski's presents terms to use in searching for data about congenital anomalies. Many of these are consumer oriented.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/databases.html

PubMed a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

CINAHL

A tutorial for using CINAHL.
http://www.hscl.ufl.edu/help/CINAHL/index.htm

Duke University. Many different tutorials including some with video.
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/cinahlebsco

Medline

Dwyer, C. (1997). Pointers for making the most of your Medline searches. Although oriented towards physicians, very helpful in helping to translate a question into searchable MeSH terms
http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/oct97/medline.htm

Other Specialized Search Engines

Google Help. Too often a search using Google yields too many listings, most of which are not pertinent to your search. Use this quick list to help refine and improve your Google search. Remember that any information found on the Web needs to be evaluated!
http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html

Hakia. This search tool uses semantic searching and returns high quality items that are often more on the topic being searched than any other scholarly search tool. You can search with such everyday phrases as "computer literacy in nurses."
http://www.hakia.com/

PubMed Searching. Improve your searching skills of PubMed with these three tutorials. They range in time from 3 to 5 minutes and are worth every minute.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh?itool=sidebar

Top 100 Alternate Search Engines (alternate to Google, as in superior in some area). For example, specialized search tools for for audio, video, or blogs.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alternative_search_engines_mar07.php

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Finding Nursing Resources

Library Tutorial. Includes information about relating concepts of a research topic to a list of search terms, identifying appropriate information resources, distinguishing between popular and scholarly publications, purpose of citing resources, elements needed for a citation, nursing resources, and core Nursing Journals.
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/services/tutorials/librarytutorial/

Nursing Resources: A Self Paced Refresher and Tutorial. Although helpful, this site is aimed at New York University students. Although the information is helpful, readers will need to substitute their own libraries for those in the tutorial.
http://library.nyu.edu/research/health/tutorial/

Internet for Nurses. A free tutorial to help university students develop their Internet research skills. Aimed at helping to responsibly use the Internet to find information for coursework and assignments.
http://www.vtstutorials.co.uk/ws//tracking/launchcontent.aspx?cv=756E608E-5FFC-481A-A5A8-49AA31C841DF&e=A0000&c=BA098AF1-F833-4BC3-84A2-F8D5B9067307&SID=1de05904-0d6b-4901-a2f2-f484c8e04a58

Invisible Web

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed. An excellent source for finding hidden Web content.
http://library.rider.edu/scholarly/rlackie/Invisible/Inv_Web.html

Invisible Web. There are many legitimate sources that the usual search tools such as Google, don't find. This site provides hints for finding this material and reasons why some sites are invisible.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html

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Searching the Web Tutorial

A tutorial from the University of South Carolina Beaufort Library, called Bare Bones 101 provides excellent, quick, easy to read information. Has information about several of the more popular search tools. Recommended for any level of searcher.
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml

Web Search Strategies

U.C. Berkeley Library WWW (2001). Recommended search strategy. Provides help in analyzing a topic for the appropriate words to use in a search and then selecting the appropriate search tool.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html.

Web Search Strategies. Information about all types of searching, including using directories, and information about the features in search engines.
http://www.learnwebskills.com/search/main.html

Beyond Google, Improve Your Search Results. This short guide to 15 tools and strategies for helping your students (and your colleagues) improve their Internet search results. Excellent help, also includes add-ons for Firefox to improve searching. (Added November 2, 2009)
http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1hp1q/BeyondGoogle15Toolsa/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yudu.com%2Fembed%2Flibrary_item%2F106121%3Fmode%3Dflipbook

 

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Websites from the Text in Chapter 11

Zotero http://www.zotero.org/

Bookmarklets http://www.citeulike.org/bookmarklets.adp

CiteULike at http://www.CiteULike.org/

National Library of Medicine (NLM) classification use the “medical subject headings” or MeSH http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/

Neoplasms http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/mbinfo.htm

EBSCOhost EBSCOhost research databases http://support.ebsco.com/help/

EBSCO Tutorials http://support.epnet.com/training/tutorials.php

Ovid Training and documentationhttp://www.ovid.com/site/help/ovid-tutorial.jsp

Self-paced tutorial http://www.ovid.com/site/help/ovid-tutorial/index.html

ProQuest Advanced search
http://proquest.umi.com/i-std/en/hsp/advanced/adv.htm

Top questions regarding advanced search
http://proquest.umi.com/i-std/en/hsp/advanced/adv_faq.htm

Search tips http://proquest.umi.com/i-std/en/hsp/searchtips/searchtips.htm

MEDLINE through PubMed on the Internet at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

NLM Mobile at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile/

PubMed for Handhelds at http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/nlm/

My National Center for Biotechnology Information at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/cubby.fcgi?

CINAHL http://support.ebsco.com/training/tutorials.php

Cochrane Library http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/demo/

PsycInfo http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/psycinfo2/

PubMed/MEDLINE http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial/

PubMed/MEDLINE http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/search/subject/subject.html

PubMed/MEDLINE (MeSH) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=mesh

Cochrane Library is online at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/106568753/HOME?

MedlinePlus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

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Websites from the Reference List in Chapter 11

American Psychological Association. (2010). PsycINFO. Retrieved June 4, 2010, from http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/index.aspx

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (2010, January 11). Hospital-acquired conditions. Retrieved June 4, 2010, from http://www.cms.gov/HospitalAcqCond/06_Hospital-Acquired_Conditions.asp

CINAHL. (2010, January 19). CINAHL databases. Retrieved June 4, 2010, from http://www.ebscohost.com/cinahl/

CiteUlike. (2010, March 4). CiteULike Help and FAQs. Retrieved June 4, 2010, from http://wiki.citeulike.org/index.php/Main_Page

Dobbins, M. (2007). Journey to evidence-informed nursing practice: Understanding the process as an iterative loop. Reflections on Nursing Leadership, 33(2). Retrieved from http://www2.nursingsociety.org/RNL/2Q_2007/columns/dobbins.html

National Center for Biotechnology Information. (2010). Welcome to NCBI. Retrieved June 4, 2010, from http:/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

National Library of Medicine. (2010, June 2). MEDLINE fact sheet. Retrieved June 4, 2010, from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/medline.html

PubMed Central. (2010, June 3). Pubmed Central homepage. Retrieved June 4, 2010, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

Sackett, D. L., Rosenberg, W. M. C., Gray, J. A. M., Haynes, R. B., & Richardson, W. S. (1996). Evidence based medicine: What it is and what it isn’t. British Medical Journal, 312(7023), 71–72. Retrieved from
http://www.bmj.com/content/312/7023/71

Sigma Theta Tau International. (2006). 2006 EBP study: Summary of findings. Retrieved January 3, 2008, from http://www.nursingknowledge.org/Portal/CMSLite/
GetFile.aspx?ContentID=78260

South African Medical Research Council. (2008, June 24). What is a systematic review? Retrieved June 4, 2010, from http://www.mrc.ac.za/cochrane/systematic.htm

The Cochrane Library. (2010). Free online access through funded provisions. Retrieved June 4, 2010, from http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/FreeAccess.html

Zotero. (2010, May 31). Quick start guide [Zotero Documentation]. Retrieved June 4, 2010, from http://www.zotero.org/documentation/quick_start_guide

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