database searching jan 2015
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Database searchingskills & strategies
• Medicinal plants
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OutcomesAt the end of the workshop, you should be able to:
• search more efficiently
• get better results
• know where to look
• be less anxious about your research
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“Finding information is hard….”
•What information am I looking for?
•Where will I find the information
•How will I get there?
•How good is the information?
•How will I ethically use the information
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What type of information do I need, & where do I find it?
• Definition
• Basic overview
• Statistics etc.
Information type
• Book
• Govt. publications
• Wiki
• youtube
General source
• Library catalogue
How to find it
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When do I need to use a database?
Bibliographic database
(aka “Literature database”)
indexed articles, subject specific
e.g.: Pubmed, Ebsco, Proquest
• Recent information
• Research
• Scholarly articles
Information type
• Academic literature
• Journal articles
• Theses, reports etc
General source
• Databases
• Google Scholar
How to find it
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Ebsco
GaleProquest
Pubmed
•Most comprehensive in content
•Only Open Source full text
•Paid content = more full text available
•Not as broad coverage of journal articles
•FREE
•THINK Education subscription
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Steps in finding information
1. Define your topic
2. Determine your search strategy
3. Find your citations
4. Get the full text article
how?!
Yes, but ……
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Database
Full Text?
• Yes - YAY!
• No (see below)
Available at SSNT?
• Check library catalogue
• Ejournal? Print journal? Other database
• Check Google Scholar
Submit article
request
• Make sure you really need it
• Usually free, but occasionally not
• Can take up to 2 weeks so allow time
Steps in finding full text article
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Search strategy
1. Define the keywords you can use
2. Start broad, progressively narrow down
3. Use search building techniques - synonyms, limiters
4. Note ‘clues’ in your results -jargon, exclusion terms etc.
5. Understand what your results mean
6. Repeat your search – be persistent, think laterally
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Define keywords
• Topic analysis
• Keywords
• Synonyms, jargon, Latin form
• Context
Search building
• Phrase searching
• AND, OR, NOT
• Similar and Citing articles
UseLimiters
• Time frame (recent? historical? trending?)
• Type of literature (review article, clinical trials, news?)
• Gender , age, population , language
after….
before….
during….
So, in summary:
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Review search results – again!
Search is an exercise in persistance!
If you don’t feel you’re getting results
Change databases
Change keywords
Change tactics
ASK YOUR LIBRARIAN FOR HELP – we’re experts!
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Example search strategy
Putting the theory to work.
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“Analyse a case study on the use of black cohoshin menopause treatment”
• Cimicifuga racemosa
• bugwort
• Phytomedicine
• medicinal plants
• menopause
• Globally?
• Australia?
• Current? Historical? Trends?
• “case study”
• “black cohosh”
• “Cimicifuga racemosa”
• ”Medicinal plants”
Phrases Context
Synonyms
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Boolean Truncation Phrase searching
• AND• NOT• OR
Using these in your search can force exclusions or inclusions
e.g: tablet NOT computer
Pathol*
Searches for:• Pathology• Pathologist• Pathological
Compare this googlesearch:
arm pressure points= 22,600,000 results
“arm pressure points”= 15,100 results
Simply phrasing your search can focus your results enormously.
Some search techniques
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Use Advanced Search
Almost all databases and search engines have
advanced search options
Provides many more fields to
help you refine your search
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Use limitseffectively
Use the limits
provided, when
you can
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Use limitseffectively
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Reading your results
1. Suggested subjects
2. Type of document
3. Abstract or Full text
4. Abstract text
5. Refining options
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Reading your results
Making use of the functions
available, helps you keep
organised while researching.