NC LIVE Medical & Health Sciences Resources Nursing Resources

1. NC LIVE Medical & Health Sciences Resources Nursing Resources Julia Shaw-Kokot and Lisa Philpotts UNC-CH Health Sciences Library Based on work by K.T.L. Vaughan

2. Welcome! • Instructor: Lisa Philpotts/Julia Shaw-Kokot • Logistics • 90 minute class • Please log in to NC LIVE in a separate window • Please use the chat at any time • Chat-based discussion follows each section • Archived for public use NC LIVE / KTLV

3. Class Outline • Introduction (10 min) • CINAHL: Keyword Searching and Viewing Results (20 min) • CINAHL: Subject Heading Searching (20 min) • CINAHL: Citation Searching (20 min) • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (5 min) • Metasearching in EBSCOhost (10 min) • Wrap-up (5 min) NC LIVE / KTLV

4. Introductions • Please use the chat to introduce yourself: • Name(s) • Institution • Why you are taking this class • Lisa or Julia will respond orally to questions, etc. NC LIVE / KTLV

5. Class Outline • Introduction (10 min) • CINAHL: Keyword Searching and Viewing Results (20 min) • CINAHL: Subject Heading Searching (20 min) • CINAHL: Citation Searching (20 min) • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (5 min) • Metasearching in EBSCOhost (10 min) • Wrap-up (5 min) NC LIVE / KTLV

6. CINAHL:Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature • Subjects: nursing, allied health, biomedicine, alternative medicine, and consumer health. • Indexes books, dissertations, conference proceedings, book chapters, journals, etc. • Includes 2,960 journals – over 597 in full text (July ‘09). • PDF backfiles to 1981 are also included. • Searchable by keyword, controlled subject heading, or citation linking (2000 to present). NC LIVE / JSK

7. Beginning Searching: Keywords • Advanced search better than basic • Structured search boxes with Boolean/wildcards • Field searching • Keyword searching • Anywhere in record (default) • Specific field • Suggest Subject Terms option NC LIVE / KTLV

8. “Refining” Your Search: Limits • Wide variety of limits available: • Type of article • Research area • Language • Age • Full text • Date published • Peer reviewed journals • Research journals NC LIVE / KTLV

9. Building and Saving Searches: Search History/Alerts • Return to previous search • Refine previous search • Combine searches • Save searches to run later and/or to have email updates sent automatically • Print out record of searches performed • Put in a personal database NC LIVE / JSK

10. Results! • Standard EBSCO format • Article citations in reverse chronological order • Title hyperlinked to citation record • Much full text (HTML or PDF) • Some with citation linking • Faceted searching via subject headings • Narrow by publication type • Standard * truncation NC LIVE /JSK

11. CINAHL Citation Record • Easily switch between this & full text • Main indexing terms are hyperlinked • Author, journal, etc. • Major & minor subject headings NC LIVE / KTLV

12. Let’s Practice! • A nursing student has come to you for help in finding information for a case study that she is researching. She needs to find information on interventions school nurses can use to help prevent student obesity. • Do a keyword search in CINAHL for some preliminary results. • Let us know what you found? NC LIVE / JSK

13. Class Outline • Introduction (10 min) • CINAHL: Keyword Searching and Viewing Results (20 min) • CINAHL: Subject Heading Searching (20 min) • CINAHL: Citation Searching (20 min) • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (5 min) • Metasearching in EBSCOhost (10 min) • Wrap-up (5 min) NC LIVE / KTLV

14. Advanced Searching: CINAHL Headings • Controlled subject headings denote “aboutness” of an article/book/etc. • Help find articles on a topic regardless of words used in title/abstract • Allows for the option to cover multiple terms • Allows for more precision with subheadings NC LIVE / JSK

15. Browsing for CINAHL Headings • Click “CINAHL Headings” button • Browsing menu: suggest Relevancy Ranked option • Also could use Term begins with or Term contains – these match vocabulary not meaning • Can choose heading straight from results • Hyperlink to more information about heading • Click on heading to see subheadings NC LIVE / JSK

16. CINAHL Heading Record • Shows location of term on the “tree” • MUST explode term to get narrower terms • Major concept = main point of the article • Specific subheadings (nursing, therapy, etc.) • Process: select options desired, then select the proper Boolean option, and “Add.” NC LIVE / KTLV

17. Let’s Practice! • Using the same nursing case that we had before (interventions school nurses can use to help prevent student obesity), let’s try some of our more advanced search techniques. • What are the best subject headings for this search? • What are some secondary headings related to them that might also be helpful? NC LIVE / JSK

18. Class Outline • Introduction (10 min) • CINAHL: Keyword Searching and Viewing Results (20 min) • CINAHL: Subject Heading and Journal Search (20 min) • CINAHL: Citation Searching (20 min) • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (5 min) • Metasearching in EBSCOhost (10 min) • Wrap-up (5 min) NC LIVE / KTLV

19. Searching by Cited References • Now a feature in most EBSCO databases • Search forward and backward in scholarly time by tracing items in bibliographies • Finds articles that are similar because of citation links rather than keywords – like genealogy! • Find these by browsing OR by searching NC LIVE / JSK

20. Cited Reference Browsing • Start with results from a standard search. • Some have a “Times Cited in this Database” link • Links to articles whose bibliographies are known • 3 Options: • Cited references (parents) • Citing articles (children) • Related records (cousins) NC LIVE / KTLV

21. Cited Reference Searching • Tab on the Advanced Search Menu • Form to enter information about starting article • CINAHL searches for citing articles as default; can move to parents & cousins from here. NC LIVE / KTLV

22. Saving Results: The Folder • Click the “Add to Folder” icon next to an article to temporarily save it within the database • These are remembered in further searches in one session • Click “Folder has Items” to see saved articles • Can print/save/email individual articles • Also can save/email entire searches and collections of articles using MyEBSCOhost NC LIVE / JSK

23. Let’s Practice! • You probably found a few good articles for the obesity case that we’ve been using. • Now let’s build our results set by finding articles that cite one or more of those, and/or are “related” to them. NC LIVE / JSK

24. Class Outline • Introduction (10 min) • CINAHL: Keyword Searching and Viewing Results (20 min) • CINAHL: Subject Heading Searching (20 min) • CINAHL: Citation Searching (20 min) • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (5 min) • Metasearching in EBSCOhost (10 min) • Wrap-up (5 min) NC LIVE / KTLV

25. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition • 550 scholarly full text journals • Abstracts and indexing for over 850 journals. • Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary • Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. NC LIVE / JSK

26. Health Source Secondary resource 550 fulltext/850 indexed journals Standard EBSCO limits No controlled vocabulary Additional non-literature resources CINAHL Core nursing resource 597 fulltext/ 2,960 indexed journals Extensive limits CINAHL Subject Headings Literature only CINAHL vs. Health Source NC LIVE / jsk

27. Class Outline • Introduction (10 min) • CINAHL: Keyword Searching and Viewing Results (20 min) • CINAHL: Subject Heading Searching (20 min) • CINAHL: Citation Searching (20 min) • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (5 min) • Metasearching in EBSCOhost (10 min) • Wrap-up (5 min) NC LIVE / KTLV

28. Metasearching in EBSCOhost • All NC LIVE EBSCOhost databases can be cross-searched at once • Using EZ search from NC LIVE • Using EBSCOhost “Choose Databases” link • Allows for using one search to look in lots of places • Use caution! NC LIVE / KTLV

29. Metasearching Nursing Databases • Choose “Databases” tab (top of screen) • Gets to list of all available databases in EBSCO • Click boxes next to databases of interest • CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL, Health Source: Nursing, PsycInfo, Health Source: Consumer • Click “Continue” to get to search • Only keyword searching is available • Limits break out by database NC LIVE / KTLV

30. Let’s Practice! • Using the EBSCO metasearch, look for articles for our fictional nursing student (interventions school nurses can use to help prevent student obesity). • What databases are most useful to search together? • What new information did you find? NC LIVE / KTLV

31. Class Outline • Introduction (10 min) • CINAHL: Keyword Searching and Viewing Results (20 min) • CINAHL: Subject Heading Searching (20 min) • CINAHL: Citation Searching (20 min) • Health Source: Nursing/Consumer Edition (5 min) • Metasearching in EBSCOhost (10 min) • Wrap-up (5 min) NC LIVE / KTLV

32. What Have We Learned? • CINAHL is the primary database for clinical and academic literature in nursing and allied health • CINAHL’s limits, subject headings, and journals indexes allow for powerful searching • Cited article searching presents an added method for finding articles NC LIVE /JSK

33. What Else Have We Learned? • About20% of journals in CINAHL are available with some full text • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is also an option for nursing information • You can search multiple EBSCO databases at once to expand options NC LIVE / KTLV

34. Further (Chat) Questions What didn’t we talk about? What do you want to know more about? Where do you see these resources as useful? Please use the chat to discuss! NC LIVE / KTLV