The document provides steps for finding information for a research topic using the UWC library resources:
1. Access the library website through the main UWC website and search databases like EbscoHost for relevant journal articles and literature.
2. Within EbscoHost, select relevant subject databases like CINAHL Plus, MEDLINE, and SocINDEX to search simultaneously using keywords.
3. If full text versions are not available, use the Full Text Finder or inter-library loans to locate full text documents.
4. Create a personal EbscoHost account to save searches and set up alerts to track new articles on your topic.
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How to Find ArticlesFinding research articles1 Why find .docxwellesleyterresa
How to Find Articles
Finding research articles
1 Why find research articles?
2 What is a research article?
3 Strategies to find research articles
4 Advanced search interface
5 Logistics of how to find full-text articles
6 How to read research articles
What is a research article?
Before we talk about how to find research articles, we have to
agree on what we're looking for. We're looking for scientific
truth. Where do you get it? From a Trustworthy Authority? Give
me a break! (see rant).
Scientific truth resides in research articles. A research article is
one that provides observations or the observed results of
experiments (not merely conclusions) and a description of how
the experiments were performed, in sufficient detail that
someone else might replicate them. You will recognize them by
the detail paid to the methods on which the results were based.
A news report of a scientific finding is not a research article. It
doesn't describe how to do the experiment. A review article is
not a research article. It combines lessons learned from multiple
research articles but, again, does not describe how to do the
experiments it covers.
Strategies to find research articles
If you know the exact title of the article you're looking for, then:
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~elhaij/bnfo300/17/Units/Intro-course/why-find-research-articles.html
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~elhaij/bnfo300/17/Units/Intro-course/how-to-read-articles.html
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~elhaij/bnfo300/17/Units/Intro-course/trustworthy-authority.html
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/lsl/help/modules/review.html
• Your favorite search engine may be the fastest way to reach
the article (if you have its exact title). However, if you're
doing this from off-campus, the site you reach will not
recognize your IP address and not realize that you are a
member of the VCU community and thus deserving of the
full text of articles in journals to which VCU subscribes.
•
• VCU library general search facility is an excellent way of
getting most articles. If you are accessing it from off
campus, you'll be prompted for your eID and password if
needed. But no database is perfect, and you may sometimes
need to look elsewhere.
If you don't know the exact title, then:
• Using a search engines is generally a poor strategy -- too
low of a signal-to-noise ratio
•
• Google Scholar is much better but I haven't used it enough
to know how its database compares to others. Note that
Google Scholar allows advanced searches by clicking the
down arrow in the search box.
•
• For greater flexibility, try dedicated services, such as
PubMed and Web of Sciences.
There are two major strategies to use these indexes to find
research articles (plus one general fallback strategy):
• Keyword search: Looks for articles whose titles, abstracts,
or author lists contain a set of words that you supply. Used
by all the sites. This is what you're already used to.
http://scholar.google.com/schhp? ...
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Presenter: Dr. Faiza, Assistant Professor of Physiology
Qualifications:
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MPH (GC University, Faisalabad)
MBA (Virtual University of Pakistan)
Learning Objectives:
Describe the primary categories of smells and the concept of odor blindness.
Explain the structure and location of the olfactory membrane and mucosa, including the types and roles of cells involved in olfaction.
Describe the pathway and mechanisms of olfactory signal transmission from the olfactory receptors to the brain.
Illustrate the biochemical cascade triggered by odorant binding to olfactory receptors, including the role of G-proteins and second messengers in generating an action potential.
Identify different types of olfactory disorders such as anosmia, hyposmia, hyperosmia, and dysosmia, including their potential causes.
Key Topics:
Olfactory Genes:
3% of the human genome accounts for olfactory genes.
400 genes for odorant receptors.
Olfactory Membrane:
Located in the superior part of the nasal cavity.
Medially: Folds downward along the superior septum.
Laterally: Folds over the superior turbinate and upper surface of the middle turbinate.
Total surface area: 5-10 square centimeters.
Olfactory Mucosa:
Olfactory Cells: Bipolar nerve cells derived from the CNS (100 million), with 4-25 olfactory cilia per cell.
Sustentacular Cells: Produce mucus and maintain ionic and molecular environment.
Basal Cells: Replace worn-out olfactory cells with an average lifespan of 1-2 months.
Bowman’s Gland: Secretes mucus.
Stimulation of Olfactory Cells:
Odorant dissolves in mucus and attaches to receptors on olfactory cilia.
Involves a cascade effect through G-proteins and second messengers, leading to depolarization and action potential generation in the olfactory nerve.
Quality of a Good Odorant:
Small (3-20 Carbon atoms), volatile, water-soluble, and lipid-soluble.
Facilitated by odorant-binding proteins in mucus.
Membrane Potential and Action Potential:
Resting membrane potential: -55mV.
Action potential frequency in the olfactory nerve increases with odorant strength.
Adaptation Towards the Sense of Smell:
Rapid adaptation within the first second, with further slow adaptation.
Psychological adaptation greater than receptor adaptation, involving feedback inhibition from the central nervous system.
Primary Sensations of Smell:
Camphoraceous, Musky, Floral, Pepperminty, Ethereal, Pungent, Putrid.
Odor Detection Threshold:
Examples: Hydrogen sulfide (0.0005 ppm), Methyl-mercaptan (0.002 ppm).
Some toxic substances are odorless at lethal concentrations.
Characteristics of Smell:
Odor blindness for single substances due to lack of appropriate receptor protein.
Behavioral and emotional influences of smell.
Transmission of Olfactory Signals:
From olfactory cells to glomeruli in the olfactory bulb, involving lateral inhibition.
Primitive, less old, and new olfactory systems with different path
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2. Step 1
The library website
To access and use the library resources, go to the UWC website (http://www.uwc.ac.za), and select Library [at the top of the screen] or enter the
UWC Library URL (http://lib.uwc.ac.za/) in the web browser.
This site works best on Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
Step 2
Just so you know you are in the right place: the UWC library homepage will look like this (with the uKwazi - library catalogue at the top of the page,
access to the library’s resources and services and the “important notification” in the middle.
3. Step 3
Searching for Literature
The Library subscribes to various databases that are linked via uKwazi (Library Search Engine) to find relevant and
current information in different types of sources, for example, journal articles, books (print and e-version), newspaper
articles, theses and dissertations. Please consult a list of relevant databases for Natural Medicine on the Natural
Medicine Library Guide under the Search for Journal Articles tab.
You can also search for literature on your topic, by either clicking on:
• Databases at the top of the Library web page and Select A-Z Databases to access a number of
subscribed databases, OR
• Databases by Discipline and select Health Sciences to access a list of databases that covers your subject.
Please see next slide how to access EbscoHost – one of the most relevant databases for health sciences
4. Access the Library website and click on
the A-Z Databases
Select the letter E to access EbscoHost,
Click on EbscoHost Web and again on your
righthand side.
5. Authenticating yourself as a registered UWC library user
Please note – that when you start using the actual databases you will be asked to log in to the UWC library site with a Username and
Password. Your Username will be your student number and your Password (your date of birth – yyyymmdd) or ID number when
required.
This prevents the general public from using the databases for which the UWC (and you) pay subscriptions.
6. There are many different types of databases (for example, some are subject-based and others are multi-disciplinary in
their coverage). Some of the databases might only contain journal articles whilst others cover book chapters as well.
You could start off by using these multidisciplinary databases, for example:
Within EbscoHost there are a variety of databases that you can search, or you can select one of the databases, for
example by clicking on CINAHL Plus. You can also select more than one database to search simultaneously,
depending on the coverage of the research topic.
Next, click on the EBSCOhost Web link to take you to the sub databases page.
8. Selecting the sub databases in EbscoHost
As mentioned previously, EBSCOhost is a multidisciplinary database and consist of sub-databases – which are
listed on this page.
Select the sub-databases, which sound promising and relevant to your topic by ticking their boxes. We suggest
you choose these ones to start off with:
• Academic Search Complete
• CINAHL Plus with Full Text
• Health Source – Nursing/ Academic Edition
• MEDLINE
• SocINDEX with Full Text.
This means you are searching all these selected databases simultaneously.
Click on “Continue” at the bottom left.
9. Conduct a Search in EbscoHost by selecting the CINAHL Plus sub-database
Start off by entering your search words/key words in the search boxes. For example, if you are looking for literature on the topic:
The use of dietary supplements for weight loss in obese patients
The search strategy would be obesity AND dietary supplements AND weight loss (See Search Techniques on the Natural Medicine library guide to learn
more about Boolean Operators)
Type “obesity” in the first search box, “dietary supplements” in the second and “weight loss” in the third box.
You may also get the information you want by using the synonyms of words, or combinations of different words that relate to your topic of interest, e.g.
overweight OR fat OR obese OR unhealthy weight OR high bmi # weight reduction OR lose weight
If you tick the box Limit to Full Text (left hand column) you should get just those in the original listing that are full text articles .
You can also limit you results list by publication date, for example: 2010-2020.
See example of the above keyword search strategy and results on the next page
10. Results list on the keyword search strategy for
obesity AND dietary supplements AND weight loss
11. What to look out for when you have your search results in front of you
You would be able to view the Abstract if you click the magnifying glass.
On the left hand side you can further limit your results by scholarly journals, source types, and by subject terms.
Once you have an article and its not available in PDF Full Text version, click on the Search uKwazi link or search the
Full Text Finder (see Step 5) to find the full text document.
12. Step 4
Join EBSCOhost and save your searches and the articles you want to keep
You can set up a personal account that you can use to save searches, retrieve and reuse or and print them as needed. In
order to save the searches will save you time and not then have to repeat the search strategies every time. You can also
organize and manage your search strategies in folders.
It is a good idea to log into EBSCOhost, create a personal profile and save your search results so that you can come
back to them where you have to focus on something else.
13. Save searches and alerts
Click on the Help icon on EBSCOhost in top right
corner to guide to step by step how to perform the
following functions:
1. Saving Searches
2. Saving a Search as an Alert
3. Setting Up a Journal Alert
4. Creating a Search Alert from the Search Screen
5. What is RSS?
6. One-Step RSS Search and Journal Alerts
14. Step 5
Finding a particular reference or search a specific journal on Full Text Finder
Access Full Text Finder underneath
uKwazi on the Library Website.
Searching in Full Text Finder,
you will be able to browse
journal titles by discipline.
You can also Enter the name of
the Journal Title to browse the
content or finding the full text or
an article
If you enter Natural Medicine in
the search box, you will see all the
Natural Medicine online journal
titles that the library subscribe to as
well as open access publications.
15. You can also search for the full-text journal article via Full Text Finder
Now paste the journal title in the Find box and click Search or select the name of the journal from the alphabetical list. If the journal
title is available, click on one of the databases that appears in blue to find the full text of the article.
Strengthening Intersectoral Collaboration for Primary Health Care in Developing Countries: Can the Health Sector Play Broader
Roles? Omokhoa Adedayo Adeleye and Antoinette Ngozi Ofili
Journal of Environmental and Public Health
Volume 2010, Article ID 272896, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/272896
Please see steps on
accessing the full text
article on next slide
16. You will have to select the year, volume and issue number of the journal article. The system will display all the articles
that has been published by that specific volume and issue number. Check for the full text of the article you are looking
for and download.
By clicking on the database you can also search for articles in the journal title or browse the articles by year of
publication.
17. Step 6
Using Inter-library Loans (ILL)
The Interlibrary Loans (ILL) service allows for material (ie, books and journal articles) not held in our
library, to be borrowed from other libraries within the system, or from libraries abroad if not available
locally.
If you are on campus, you can request a book or a copy of a journal article or a thesis which is not in the
UWC Library, by filling out a request form at the ILL counter. You can also do this online by clicking on
Advanced Search underneath uKwazi on the Library website and then ILL Request (Inter Library Loans).
Alternatively email interlending@uwc.ac.za (ILL).
Please see steps on next slide.
18. Books from other libraries in the Western Cape are usually obtained within a few days via the CALICO project, unless they are
out on loan. Books at libraries further afield will take longer.
Step 1
Students should access the library
catalogue and click on Advanced
Search.
Step 2
Once you are on the Advanced
Search page, click on ILL
Request to access the request
form.
Step 3
Complete the form and submit.
Inter Library Loans staff will
respond to your request soon.