1. Searching for a Research Study

2. How to identify a research study
A research study must:
• Ask a research question
• Identify a research population or group
• Describe a research method
• Test or measure something
• Summarize the results
• Research studies are almost always published in peer-reviewed (scholarly)
journals.
• Articles that review other studies without presenting new research results
are not research studies. Examples of article types that are NOT research
studies include: literature reviews, meta-analyses, editorials, comments
or letters relating to previously-published research studies

3. Library Homepage - www.nova.edu/hpdlibrary

4. Click on the Assignment Help tab

5. Please click the CINAHL link

6. Login

7. We are going to create an account

8. Click [Create a new Account] if you do not
have an EBSCOhost account.
 Save preferences  Organize your research with folders
 Share your folders with others  View others' folders
 Save & retrieve your search history  Create email alerts and/or RSS feeds
 Access your saved research remotely

11. Sample Search
Limiters –
Full Text
Published Date from:
January 2008
January 2013
English Language
Peer Reviewed
Research Article

12. Results

14. Refine Search
Results:
Remove Full Text
Limiter
• Click on the
orange X (the
screen will
refresh)
• Click on
Search

15. If the full text
article is not
available in
CINAHL, click
on

18. After choosing the
database we want to
use, we have to
navigate to the article
Keep your original
citation handy and
navigate to the article
by either clicking on
the current issue OR
archives/previous
issues.

19. **Articles are usually
listed in page number
order
If you do not see it
listed, use the title or
author ‘s last name in
the search box for the
journal to locate the
article.
Choose PDF over HTML
or Full-Text as this will
include tables, graphs
and images.

20. That is one way to locate a research study.
The next option is PubMed.
Please go back to the Assignment Help tab on
the PA LibGuide and click on the second box
link for PubMed

22. Searches in the ‘Publication Type’ Field:
Clinical Trial Phase I, II, III, IV
Controlled Clinical Trial
Multicenter Study
Randomized Controlled Trial

25. 2 Options to
find the full
text article
Click on “Free
Full Text
Available”
(limits results to
only the articles
available full text
in PubMed)
Or
Click on the
article title
and then click
on the “Find
It” link
(searches for the
full text article
from the library’s
other resources )

28. This means we don’t have it in print

31. WebBridge automatically filled in the form for you!
Make sure you answer the first question – HPD Campus Affiliation
Then scroll to the bottom and click SUBMIT