1. SMED 8004 Medicine and Health Library October 2015
How to find literature - A very short introduction
SMED Medicine and Health Library October 2015
Kunnskapsbasert praksis er forankret i
Forskningsbasert kunnskap
Erfaringsbasert kunnskap
Brukerbasert kunnskap
Forskningsbasert kunnskap:
Publisert i anerkjent tidsskrift
Systematisk metode for å få fram svar på en hypotese
Empirisk forskning (anvendt) bygger på studier av mennesker
Teoretisk forskning: befatter seg bare med teorier
Eksempel:
Mageleie hos spebarn
Teori: styrker ryggen og gir bedre motorikk
Empiri: økt risiko for krybbedød

3. Searching for information = Search strategy + Search technique
There are many more than we show in this presentation!!
Which databases?
Which search words?
Combination of search words?
(search profile)
Databases have different user interfaces og search functions
(Check help-funktion/guides)
Information literacy ?
Result – I want the best weight of precicion and recall (for my use)

4. How to search – the work process:
There is an increasing demand for you to document your literature search when you want to publish a scientific article.
You should have a clearly defined searchable research question
You should work systematically and structured when you search
You should consider the aim of your search and time available to search

5. Search Technique; Top Tips
Use more than one source
Remember synonymes
Look out for Systematic reviews!
Use Keywords e.g MESH
Use search history to combine searches
Limits: Language, year, document type
Defined search fields (author, article title..)
Truncate: search for different word endings (often *)
Phrase search: write ”quotes around words”
Citation tracking/searching

6. Use to combine search words
Use NOT with care!
From the homepage of Durham University Library

7. Find systematic reviews and clinical studies easy
Largest and much used database in medicine/biomedicine
References and abstracts from scientific journals
(5600 journals covered)
The free version of Medline
Link to fulltext or article-ordering =

8. Good source for interdisciplinary issues
Google Scholar = Scientific Google
Scientific articles, conferences, Google books…
Searches full text (publishers, universities, open access..)
What is much cited ranks high on the «hit-list»
Not very advanced search options
Search for one known reference/article works very well
Who sites who – citation tracking
No quality control
Link to full text/ordering = NTNU
See also: Web of science and Scopus

9. Scopus - interdisciplinary reference database.
Who sites who – citation tracking
21000 journals, conferences
Link to fulltext or article-ordering =
Measure journal impact (see Analytics)
Check out impact in social media

10. Scopus, ISI Web of Science, Google Scholar Why?
Multidisciplinary
Finding the original work(s) on which an idea or research is based
Finding reactions to a work
Finding studies that are closely related
Following up developments in a field
Identifying emerging research areas
Finding background information
Finding grey literature
How to find information : a guide for researchers / Sally Rumsey, 2008

11. How to stay up to date?
in Create a personal space with your own password
alerts will notify you of new articles matching saved searches
Also possible:
-Store references -Store filters that will automatically group your search results. -Check your PubMed activity in the last six months.
Check the Pubmed guide on our homepage Similar tools are also available in other databases

12. Online training