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Transcultural mental health 2013
1. Transcultural Mental Health
Paula Funnell
p.a.funnell@qmul.ac.uk
Senior Academic Liaison Librarian (Medicine and Dentistry)
Searching for Information
2. Learning outcomes
โข To be introduced to the library search
tools
โข To know where to look for good quality
information on the web
โข To be able to do a simple search on
key databases
4. Search engines
โข Search engine = supermarket
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โข Searches across many DIFFERENT
things
5. Healthcare specific
search engines
โข Search specifically across healthcare
related resources
โข Search across good quality internet
resources
โข Much more manageable number of
results
โข Ability to filter your results
6. Evidence Search
โข Easy to use
โข Searches across high-quality
healthcare specific resources
โข Provided and managed by NICE
โข Wide range of filters allow you to
narrow down your search e.g. by type
of information or date of publication
www.evidence.nhs.uk
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9. TRIP
โข One simple search box
โข Results are colour coded giving an at
a glance indication of quality of
information
โข Results vary widely - including
primary research, reviews, textbooks
and news
www.tripdatabase.com
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12. Databases
โข Databases โ florist
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โข Collection of SAME thing
13. Databases
โข Vast collections of references of
published research
โข Filters can be applied to narrow results
down
โข Searches can be combined and saved
for future use
โข References can be imported to
EndNote
14. MEDLINE (PubMed)
โข PubMed is a search interface for the
MEDLINE database
โข Database of references and abstracts
of journal articles
โข Covers the broad field of biomedicine
โข Special QM PubMed address for
easier full-text access
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=igbqmullib
15. Broadening your search
โข Truncation โ add an asterisk to the
stem of a word
โข ethnic* will search for ethnic,
ethnical, ethnicity . . .
16. Broadening your search
โข An OR search โ combine two
synonyms to give a larger number of
results
โข Ethnic* OR cultur* will search for any
articles containing one or both of
the terms
17. Narrowing your search
โข Phrase searching โ enclose phrase
within quotation marks
โข โanorexia nervosaโ will return results
where anorexia and nervosa appear
side by side in the title or abstract
18. Narrowing your search
โข An AND search โ combine two
elements of your search question to
give a smaller number of results
โข Ethnic* AND anorexia nervosa will
search for any articles containing
both of the terms
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22. Web of Science
โข Part of ISI Web of Knowledge
โข Contains:
โ Science Citation Index
โ Social Sciences Citation Index
โ Arts and Humanities Citation Index
โข Need to log in off campus
www.webofknowledge.com
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25. Scopus
โข Worldโs largest abstract and citation
database
โข Search across a range of subject
areas
โข Includes Medline coverage
โข Need to log in off campus
www.scopus.com
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28. The Cochrane Library
โข High quality systematic reviews
โข Already been critically appraised
โข Full text available
โข Also contains abstracts of other
systematic reviews and clinical trials
www.thecochranelibrary.com
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32. PsycINFO
โข A database covering psychology and
related disciplines, including
psychiatry
โข Access through the library catalogue
โข Need to login off campus
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35. Summary
โข Use the library search tools to
access resources paid for by Queen
Mary
โข Use specialist search engines to
search across a wide range of good
quality web resources
โข Use databases to find academic
research articles, both primary
research as well as review articles