This event took place July 19, 2017 at the University of Benin (Nigeria) Senate Chamber. I trained medical practitioners from all over West Africa on the "Effective Use of the Library for Research and Publications". The event was part of the CERHI (Centre of Excellence in Reproductive Health Innovation) Short Course on Building Research Evidence for Effective Policy Transfer and Development Implementation, Literature Review, Systematic Analysis/Meta-Analysis, and Journal/Thesis Writing.

1. by
Web Librarian
John Harris Library, University of Benin

2. Electronic
Journals
Scholarly
Databases

3. OBJECTIVES

4. ELECTRONIC LIBRARY RESOURCES
Characteristics: Free or fee-based access

7. Academic
Refereed journals
Review journals
Pre-prints
Bulletins

8. Example: University of Benin Journal of Science and Technology
Strengths/weaknesses
• high-quality, reliable
information
• ‘may be’ slow to be
published due to
lengthy review process
• often fee-based access

9. Example: Current Opinion in Immunology

10. Strengths/weaknesses
• up-to-date
• standard
• very variable
Example: Africa Research Bulletin

11. Strengths/weaknesses
• up-to-date
• allow rapid
communication of
results and ideas and
instant feedback
• lacking the quality
control process of a
peer-reviewed journal
Example: The Physics ePrint Archive

17. INTRODUCTION TO
SCHOLARLY
DATABASES

18. You can search them for the information you need, but it helps to know how
to best conduct your search.

19. About
564,000,000
results
The title of the
result is often
the page title
If the host
provides a
description
with the page
title, the
description
often shows up
Other Google
tools such as
aggregated
news and
images
Drug as a query in Google

20. 48,432,97
Results from
peer reviewed
journals
The title of the
result often
leads to the
abstract
Drug as a query in PubMed

23. Only when you know
how to use the Advanced
features

25. Advanced Searching can use more specific
search terms, like title, author, date, etc.

26. AND, OR, NOT
Boolean Operators
Truncation
Wildcard
Phrase searching
Enhanced Operators
P I C O
Keyword Model
• Structure and analyze your
query
• Keyword(s) identification
• Facet analysis
Before Searching

27. Using AND, you can find
Resources that include information
about Reproductive Health and Nursing
diets Using OR, you can find resources that include
Information about Reproductive Health, Nursing,
and resources that discuss both
Using NOT, you can find
resources that discuss only Reproductive Health
Reproductive
Health
Nursing Reproductive
Health
Nursing Nursing
Reproductive
Health

28. ENHANCED OPERATORS

29. PICO is a method of
analysing the
components of a
medical case.
It is for structuring
literature search.

30. P also stands for Patient or Problem or
“Participants”

31. I also stands for Indicator

32. C also stands for Comparator or Control

34. Example:
Population
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome

36. PATIENT /
POPULATION
INTERVENTION COMPARISON OUTCOME
Children with
ear infections
Chewing
gum
Deconge
stants
Reducing
pain Breaking down a
subject into its
component parts,
choosing appropriate
terminology to
express those parts,
and conveying those
aspects by means of
a notational device
Facet Analysis