The document provides an overview of various resources and tools for information searching, specifically highlighting the IUON library catalogue and online databases such as Academic Search Premier, CINAHL, and Medline. It includes links to training tutorials and emphasizes the use of Boolean logic and other search techniques for effective data retrieval. Additionally, it mentions freely accessible internet databases like Scirus and PubMed for scientific literature.

1. Information Searching Skills Links to Training Tutorials

2. Information Quest IUON Library Catalogue Databases Internet

3. What is the ‘Catalogue’? Index to materials housed in the library Links to free online ebooks Search by title, author, subject or keyword Access IUON WebCAT online Help tutorial and LC Classification Info.

4. Databases Searchable online subscription DB’s: ~ Academic Search Premier ~ CINAHL ~ Medline ~ DynaMed

5. Academic Search Premier ASP contains indexing for @ 8,200 journals with @5,000 in full text covering most subjects. http:// support.ebsco.com/training/tutorials.php

6. CINAHL The premier nursing journal DB, indexes @3,000 journals & contains 70 in full text. Tutorials: http://support.ebsco.com/training/flash_videos/CINAHLBasicSearching.html http://www.hscl.ufl.edu/help/CINAHL/index.htm http://support.ebsco.com/training/flash_videos/CINAHLAdvancedSearching.html

7. Medline Includes abstracts and citations from > 4,800 current biomedical journals. Search using variety of interfaces: PudMed [free online] EBSCO [subscription] Ovid [subscription - not at IUON]

8. EBSCO Visual Search

9. DynaMed A topical disease DB including EB Practice levels. http://support.ebsco.com/training/flash_videos/DynaMed-Black_Cohosh.swf http://support.ebsco.com/training/flash_videos/DynaMed-Carpal_Tunnel_Syndrome.swf

10. Freely Searchable Internet DB’s Scirus the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet, Scirus searches over 415 million science-specific Web pages. http:// www.scirus.com/srsapp/aboutus/#top

11. PubMed a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/mesh/searching/mesh1.html

12. PubMed http://www.library.health.ufl.edu/PubMed/PubMed2/overview.html http://www.mssm.edu/library/tutorials/pubmed.html http:// video.google.com/videoplay?docid =-6596500669670012150&q= PubMed+searching

13. Boolean Logic AND ~ narrows OR ~ broadens http:// www.ithaca.edu/library/course/expert.html

14. Tips & Tricks Phrases ( ) [ ] “ “ Wildcard ? Truncation * Tilde ~ Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT +, pipe |, - http:// www.searchengineshowdown.com /features /

15. Internet Indexes DMOZ HON MedlinePlus HardinMD NOAH

16. Search Engines Google Scholar Medstory ReleMed Healia MammaHealth Kosmix

17. Diagnosing Websites Who When Where Why What

18. Happy Searching! Ann Celestine BA MLS AHIP Library Director International University of Nursing