Searching Your EBSCO Research Databases ASUM: September 2016 Cindy Slater Training Specialist, Australia/New Zealand cslater@ebsco.com
In this session we will cover: Overview of EBSCO Resources Searching: Basic, Advanced, Subject Heading Refining Results Working with Results Alerts My EBSCOhost Folder Search Tips EBSCO Support Site
How do I access the databases? Go to: http://www.asum.com.au/ Select myasum
EBSCO Resources CINAHL Complete MEDLINE Complete Biomedical Reference Collection: Corporate
CINAHL Complete Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature Full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. CEUs Quick Lessons Evidence-Based Care Sheets
MEDLINE Complete Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) Full text for over 1,800 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Coverage dating back to 1857 and full-text back to 1865
Biomedical Reference Collection More than 3,000 full text journals and magazines. All full text periodicals in the database are indexed in either Embase or BIOSIS
Boolean Operators AND is used between terms to narrow your search hip and knee will retrieve references containing both search terms OR is used between terms to broaden your search ulcer or wound will retrieve references containing any of these search terms NOT is used to omit a term from your search injury not sports will retrieve references containing the term injury, but that do not contain the term sports
Search Tips The truncation/word stemming device is the asterisk (*) treat* will retrieve treat, treatment etc. The single character wildcard is question mark (?) organi?ation will retrieve organisation or organization The multiple character wildcard is the hash (#) behavio#r will retrieve behavior or behaviour Use quotation marks for phrase searching Achilles tendinopathy will retrieve references that contain these terms next to each other, in this exact order
Let s Search
Special Limiters: CINAHL
Limiters Evidence-Based Practice Evidence-Based Practice is a value that can be found in the Special Interest field of some CINAHL records. This value is associated with a record when an article is about the application of Evidence-Based medicine. Applying this limiter allows you to limit results to: Articles from evidence-based practice journals Articles about evidence-based practice Research articles (including systematic reviews, clinical trials, meta analyses, etc.) Commentaries on research studies (applying practice to research)
Limiters Clinical Queries Clinical Queries are specific search strategies ( hedges ) which can be applied to retrieve clinically-relevant and scientifically-sound results. The 5 strategies which can be applied are: Therapy, Prognosis, Review, Qualitative, and Causation (Etiology). Three strategies are provided for each area: High Sensitivity - the broadest search to include ALL relevant material. It may include less relevant materials. High Specificity - the most targeted search to include only the most relevant result set, may miss some relevant materials. Best Balance - retrieves the best balance between Sensitivity and Specificity. Clinical Queries are created in collaboration with the Health Information Research Unit (HIRU) at McMaster University, and are designed for clinician use.
Limiters Search only Pre-CINAHL Pre-CINAHL includes records that are not yet 100% indexed. These records do not have subject headings applied yet. (You won t find these items if using Subject Heading Searching) Written by a Nurse First Author is Nurse only retrieves records where it is confirmed that the first author of an article is a nurse, according to credentials noted in the article. Any Author is Nurse only retrieve records where at least one author is a nurse, according to the credentials noted in the article. The written by a nurse limiter applies to records from November 2009 and forward.
Limiters Limit to articles published in Australian/NZ journals & magazines: Search for your topic in a set of journals relevant to your area: eg Critical Care; Diagnostic Imaging, Emergency Care, Gerontologic Care, Nursing Education, Nutrition, Obstetric Care, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Social Work, Wound Care, etc *View the list of journals covered in each Special Interest group via the CINAHL Support Center
Special Limiters: MEDLINE
EBM Reviews -Quick method to limit your search to the following 6 titles within MEDLINE: - The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - ACP Journal Club - Clinical Evidence - Evidence-based Mental Health - Evidence-based Nursing - Evidence report/technology assessment This limiter is valuable as it limits your search to a small set of titles that apply very strict criteria and thus include high-quality evidence-based content, including systematic reviews. Therein, you can search for a keyword, like headache, and apply this limiter and retrieve a set of more valuable results quickly.
Clinical Queries You can refine your search using specific search strategies designed to narrow your results in nine research areas: Therapy, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Reviews, Clinical Prediction Guides, Qualitative, Causation (Etiology), Costs, and Economics. Three strategies are provided for each area: High Sensitivity - the broadest search to include ALL relevant material. It may include less relevant materials. High Specificity - the most targeted search to include only the most relevant result set, may miss some relevant materials. Best Balance - retrieves the best balance between Sensitivity and Specificity. Clinical Queries are created in collaboration with the Health Information Research Unit (HIRU) at McMaster University, and are designed for clinician use. For additional information about ongoing research, please visit http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/hiru/hiru_hedges_home.aspx.
EBSCO Support:www.help.ebsco.com Help Sheets, User Guides, Tutorials etc http://support.ebsco.com EBSCO You Tube Channel Short videos.
What happens next? Please contact ASUM if you would like a copy of the recording ASUM will arrange your PD certificates
Questions? Comments? Feedback? Contact: Cindy Slater cslater@ebsco.com Thank you!