1. PHARM 122.3 Library Orientation
Presented by: Vicky Duncan
September 17, 2018

2. Outline Evaluating information What about Wikipedia?
How to find medicinal chemistry resources
Finding information about the chemistry and physical chemistry of drugs
Finding current literature on a drug
Citing references
Outline

3. CRAAP Test
This video provides a nice overview of using CRAAP to evaluate sources of information…
It applies to both online and print sources, websites and peer-reviewed articles

4. CRAAP
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5. What about Wikipedia? It is an “open” database
Quality varies article to article
WikiProject Medicine is an effort made by a group of volunteer health professionals to keep key medical topics in Wikipedia up to date
WikiProject Medicine has been taken on by groups of medical students etc. Have published an extensive guide on identifying quality resources, and making entries available in languages other than English

6. Finding Medicinal Chemistry Resources
It’s a good idea to do some reading “around” your topic before you start your assignment
You will find books (print and online) in the library catalogue under the subject heading “Pharmaceutical Chemistry”
You can also browse the books at the call number RS 403
Finding Medicinal Chemistry Resources

7. Finding information about the chemistry and physical chemistry of drugs
You can find this information in a number of places, including the Merck Index, and (Wikipedia)
Best Bets…
Merck Index
Health Canada Drug Product database
PubChem

8. Finding Current Literature on a Drug
You have a few choices available:
PubMed / Medline
Scopus
Embase
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
Google Scholar

9. What is Medline?
A database which indexes over 5600 peer-reviewed journals in the biomedical sciences
Contains over 26 million citations to journal articles
Does not include theses, technical reports, pre- prints, books, or patents

10. How is it different than PubMed?
Designed for the layperson
Freely available
Contains additional life sciences journals
Contains in-process citations, and “Ahead of Print” citations
Medline (OVID)
Subscription based
Guides you through the searching process
User friendly interface which is the same for all OVID databases (PsycINFO, Embase, ERIC, etc.)

11. What do PubMed and Medline search?
The full record of each journal article in the database
But not the fulltext of the article
Search UI: What is meant by “the full record”? I’ll demonstrate by showing you one… Show the full record, then start the demo search by looking for information on “Acetaminophen”
Explain mapping to subject heading / subheadings / focus – mention subheadings that will be useful to them

12. Subheadings
Used to narrow down your search to a particular aspect(s) of your topic
Be cautious about applying them the first time you run through your search. Often you won’t need to go back and apply them because your combination of MeSH terms identifies a nice number of relevant articles…but if you are overwhelmed by irrelevant results, try applying relevant subheadings

13. Boolean Operators AND, OR, NOT
Used to join together different concepts in a research question
It’s really important to use them properly

14. Focus
Allows you to retrieve only the articles which have the MeSH heading selected as one of the foci of the article
Useful when you are retrieving too much information, and its not all relevant
- Because this is a large database, you will most likely retrieve many articles. To try to identify the more relevant ones, try using the “Focus” feature with the MeSH heading –

15. Limits Age Gender Geography Study type Date of publication Language
Check tags
Core clinical journals
another strategy is to limit to the Publication type “review”

16. What is Google Scholar?
Google Scholar includes journal and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research. You'll find works from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies and university repositories, as well as scholarly articles available anywhere across the web. Google Scholar also includes court opinions and patents
Ahem, we index papers, not journals. 
From:
But does not provide a list of the journals that are scanned, neither does it “index” the whole journal…just selected articles…and we don’t know how they are selecting those articles

17. What does it search?
The journal citation (author/title/source/abstract)
The fulltext of the article
Searches the citation of the article, as well as the fulltext of the article

18. Features Related articles Maps to full text at U of S
Can be imported using a citation reference manager
Demonstrate using Google Scholar through the library website, and show a sample search where we can see the Related Articles. Go into “settings” to show how to set up linking to fulltext at U of S, and importing to the citation manager of your choice

19. Citing References
Your assignment asks you to submit references in the style of the journal Pharmaceutical Research, which follows Vancouver Style
Use a citation manager such as Mendeley or Zotero, or follow the examples in the website above
Word 2016 does not include Vancouver style as an option

20. Questions?
Feel free to contact me for any library or research question!
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