How-To: Using EBSCOhost
A guide to searching using EBSCOhost, a powerful online reference and database search system
How-To: Searching UpToDate
What is UpToDate? UpToDate is an evidence-based medical search engine, containing broad coverage of adult primary care, subspecialty internal medicine, ob/gyn, general surgery and pediatrics. It ontains the equivalent of over 77,000 pages of original, peer-reviewed text. It is written, reviewed and continuously updated by over 5,100 physicians to ensure that the content remains current. This expert faculty synthesizes […]
How-To: Using Mendeley
What is Mendeley? Mendeley is a free reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. Adding References There are several ways to add a reference to a library: manually, exporting & importing from other programs. Exporting Citations from Databases Most databases such as PubMed, CINAHL etc. allow users […]
How-To: Using Endnote
What is Endnote? EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. Adding References There are several ways to add a reference to a library: manually, exporting, importing and connecting from Endnote Web. The program presents the user with a window containing a drop-down menu […]
Effective Searching Strategies
Sometimes when using online databases it can be difficult to find the information you are looking for. Here we will deal with the topic of searching as an overall, generalised concept. Further specific information on searching individual databases is linked to in the post. Steps to developing an effective search strategy: Clarify your query Write […]
How-To: Searching the Cochrane Library
What is the Cochrane Library? The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration. At its core is the collection of Cochrane Reviews, a database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses […]
How-To: Searching with PubMed
What is PubMed? PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval. PubMed can be found here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed […]
How-To: Searching with CINAHL
What is CINAHL? CINAHL is the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, nurse educators and students depend on the The CINAHL Database to research their subject area from this authoritative index of nursing and allied health journals which includes millions of records dating back to 1981 CINAHL indexes […]
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