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CINAHL. Basic Searching Techniques. Bibliographic Databases – what do they do?. List “bibliographic” details of journal articles Author & title of the article Journal title, volume, issue and page(s)

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CINAHL

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  1. CINAHL Basic Searching Techniques

  2. Bibliographic Databases – what do they do? • List “bibliographic” details of journal articles • Author & title of the article • Journal title, volume, issue and page(s) • Mostly refer to journal articles, but some refer to newspapers, conference papers, book chapters or videos. • Can be searched – much like WebCat. But………

  3. They…… • Do not normally include the full text of the article itself. • Do not indicate whether the journal is in the Library.

  4. Basic (free-text searching) Basic searching is an unstructured search which looks for the terms which you enter anywhere in the bibliographic reference (author, title of article, abstract etc.) This will normally produce more hits than an advanced (thesaurus) search

  5. After this presentation you will be able to… • Create a basic search strategy • Search the bibliographic database CINAHL for references to journal articles • Use TDNet, the library periodical/journal catalogue to see if we have access to the references which you have found

  6. Library home page url www.soton.ac.uk/library

  7. Select one of these links

  8. Scroll down to see complete list

  9. You will see this login screen if you are off-campus and not using VPN

  10. Searching exercise Stroke rehabilitation: helping the patient achieve independence

  11. Enter search term here then search

  12. Number of results

  13. These references will include: • References to articles about all aspects of stroke not just rehabilitation but • They could also include references to articles about pet therapy (people who stroke animals are more relaxed) or swimming or even heat stroke so…..

  14. You need to write a detailed search strategy which will help to improve the search

  15. Question, Concepts & Keywords Stroke rehabilitation: helping the patient achieve independence

  16. From your search question • Identify the concepts of your question • List alternative keywords and phrases • Include both narrow and broad terms • List alternative spellings and punctuation

  17. What are keywords? • Keywords are words which describe your subject topic. They can be single words (e.g. nursing) or phrases (e.g. health promotion). • You will also need to think of synonyms, alternative expressions and American spellings (e.g. fetal or foetal)

  18. Identify your search terms Stroke rehabilitation: helping the patient achieve independence

  19. Identify alternatives • stroke • cerebrovascular accident • cva • rehabilitation • therapy • physiotherapy • occupational therapy • independence • activities of daily living • patient • client • customer (you may not use all of the keywords/alternatives)

  20. Join these terms together using: Boolean logic and Truncation

  21. Boolean Logic Allows you to search for multiple keywords OR combines different expressions for the same concept • teenagers OR adolescents AND links two different concepts together • children AND communication

  22. Truncation • Finds any keyword with a common stem • Truncation symbol is commonly * • Physiotherap* will find: • physiotherapist • physiotherapists • physiotherapy

  23. The search will look like this: • Search 1 • stroke* or cerebrovascular accident* or cva* • Search 2 • rehabilitation or occupational therapy or physiotherapy

  24. 1. Enter search term/s 2. Search

  25. 1. Enter new search term/s 2. Search New search results

  26. Results of third search

  27. We now need to combine these searches to retrieve references which include both concepts

  28. 2. Choose the appropriate Boolean operator (in this case and) 1. Place a tick next to the searches you wish to combine

  29. 1. Results of final search 2. To cut your search results down use the link to open up the Revise Search options (scroll down the screen to see them)

  30. Editing (limiting) your search Click the Edit link next to the number of results to choose limits for your search. You can choose from limits such as: • Date of publication • Language • Age Group/s • Gender • Publication type i.e. journal • Journal subset i.e. English & Ireland journals

  31. We will limit by: • Year/s (2005-2010) • Abstract available • UK & Ireland journals only • Review articles

  32. Final results To look at the references use this link

  33. Full details of the reference

  34. Return to results display here Abstract

  35. If this full text link is present it will lead you straight to the article itself If there is no full text link check the title on TDNet our journals database

  36. Marking and saving references

  37. Add to folder those • references you want • to mark, page by page….. 2. then go to Folder View

  38. Then select them (again)

  39. Then choose whether you want to…. ….save, email, print or export the references

  40. This is what your saved results will look like Your search history will be at the top of the saved results….

  41. …… with the references below

  42. Warning! Don’t send your results to a work address outside of the University i.e. your NHS email account as the firewall set up by other organisations will block any attachments.

  43. Getting Help • Subject Enquiries Level 3, Hartley Library • Or contact sohsenqs@soton.ac.uk 

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