1. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Erika Gavillet Walton Library Search strategies – how to cover all the bases

2. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Define your topic  Be clear on what you are asking  Keep the question as simple but as specific as possible  Analyse the elements of your question  main subjects or concepts  population group - sex, age range  publication language  publication date

3. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Sample question What has been published in English since 1999 on the relationship between heavy drinking and adolescent behaviour?

4. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Analyse the question…  subject 1  subject 2  population group  publication type  publication language  publication date heavy alcohol drinking adolescent behaviour (adolescents) journal articles English 1999-2014

5. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Your main concepts  Make a list of all your main search terms  Check for alternate terms and synonyms  Use thesauri and dictionaries,  Use controlled vocabularies (MeSH headings) Most indexes and cataloguers with use MeSH MeSH is NOT just medical terminology

6. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Population group  Age  Sex  Race  Socio-economic grouping

7. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Dates -How far back do you need to go? -Earliest electronic resources are in the 40’s but most go back to 80’s -Might need to consult printed indexes - Recent work? Use review articles, Cochrane, Web of Science, Scopus

8. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. …choose your sources  Journals - Probably your biggest source - E-journals are searchable - Databases easy to use - May have to use printed indexes for older material Accessing journals- Library homepagehomepage

9. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Books/Textbooks  Not so up-to-date, but… ..A good search covers all the bases!  Good for bibliographies Use:  British Library -http://catalogue.bl.uk/  Amazon- www.amazon.com

10. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Grey literature  eg. theses, conference proceedings, reports Use:  Zetoc (tocs for conference papers and journals)  Index of conference proceedings (on BL catalogue)  Index to Theses (Library databases)  UK Clinical Research Network (http://www.ukcrn.org.uk/index.html)

11. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Databases  Wide range of databases in biomedical sciences  Available via Library homepage

12. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Useful databases  Medline – US, 1946-, biomedical/clinical sciences  Embase – European, 1974-, toxicology, pharmacology, interventions  PsycInfo – 1806 -, psychology, psychiatry, behavioural sciences  Scopus – 54m records (33m back to 1996, 21m back to 1823), multi-disciplinary  WoK – 1900 -, 40m references, multi- disciplinary

13. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Controlled vocabularies Universities Colleges of Higher Education Institutions College

14. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Controlled vocabularies  Medline/Cochrane Library – MeSH  PsycInfo – APA thesaurus  Embase - Emtree

15. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. ‘Keyword’ databases  Web of Science (Web of Knowledge)  Scopus

16. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Okay…  I have my search terms.  I’ve chosen my resources. Anything else I need to know about?

17. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Oh, yes… Applying search techniques…. Boolean logic - AND, NOT, OR To make your searches more or less specific.

18. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. AND BOTH of the search terms are present

19. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. AND

20. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. OR At least one of the search terms is present.

21. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. OR

22. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. NOT Only one of the terms is present

23. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Getting round word variants – truncation Most databases use * So, disease* returns disease, diseases, diseased Be careful, rat* returns rat, rats, rate, rationalise, ratio, ratify…

24. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Google  Extremely powerful search engine  Has INCREDIBLY advanced searching technology built in, as well as an advanced searching capacity, but… …not a lot of people know that… http://www.google.com/advanced_search

26. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Google – search operators  Many search features: http://www.google.com/help/operators.html

27. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. During the search process  Re-run searches  Sign up to alerting services

28. Keeping records Potential scenario…. Important article Chase all refs Check who cited these papers Check who has cited the paper etc Chase particular author etc

29. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Keeping records  Use bibliographic software: EndNoteX7

30. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. Research skills  http://faculty-tools.ncl.ac.uk/training http://faculty-tools.ncl.ac.uk/training

31. University Library  You can add your own images on top of these default ones if you wish. It’s recommended to stick to the 3-box layout. If you have been… …thanks for listening!  Any questions? medliaison@ncl.ac.uk