Review of search concepts for students under taking their field work.

1. Finding literature
in the field
Search Strategies for public health
field work

2. Objectives
 Review Open Access journal options
 Review the informatics concepts of Boolean searching,
field codes, and hierarchical subject headings
 Review options outside of journal literature
 Review use of RefWorks to save bibliographic data

3. Open Access?

4. Concerns about Open Access?

5. Concerns about Open Access?

6. Open Access Options for NYC
Fieldwork: DOAJ

7. Open Access Options for NYC
Fieldwork: PMC

8. Open Access Options for NYC
Fieldwork: PMC

9. Searching DOAJ
 If you select the “Health Sciences” subject category and
then the “Public Health” category, the result set does not
change, but if you select the “Health Sciences” category
and then the “Neoplasms.Tumors. [etc.]” category, the
number of articles in the result set increases.Why?

10. Searching DOAJ
 How would retrieve all the articles filed in either the public
health or sociology categories that mention either
“program evaluation” or “program assessment” in their
abstracts?

11. Searching PMC
 How would you retrieve all of the articles in the
“community health planning” subject category that
mention either “participatory action” or “ethnography” in
their titles or abstracts?

12. Non-journal Resources

13. Capturing Citation Data

14. References
 Beall J. List of Publishers. Scholarly Open Access.
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/. Accessed February 11, 2015.
 Bohannon J.Who’s Afraid of Peer Review? Science.
2013;342(6154):60-65. doi:10.1126/science.342.6154.60.
 Pell J. Books on Research Methods in Public Health. About this
Guide.
http://libguides.library.hunter.cuny.edu/publichealthresearchm
ethods?hs=a. Accessed February 12, 2015.
 Open Access Week. http://www.openaccessweek.org/. Accessed
February 12, 2015.