MBBS Hons 2010

Jill McTaggartJoint PA Hospital/UQ Library

j.mctaggart@library.uq.edu.au

MBBS Honours

Literature Review

MBBS Hons 2010

•Summary of information on Core MBBS library website for Hons students

www.library.uq.edu.au/mbbs/honours.html

•UQ Library web page – Services for Coursework Postgraduates

•UQ Student services page – PhD writing/ Literature review

Where to find help

MBBS Hons 2010

Where to search?

• Google Scholar – see what’s out there, but also conference proceedings & poster publications

• UQ Library catalogue – textbooks for background info?

• Theses – latest published (also called Dissertations) – http://www.library.uq.edu.au/catalogue/theses.html

– Australian Digital Theses Program – eThOS [UK] – Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees in Great

Britain and Ireland – ProQuest Dissertations and Theses [North America and Europe]

• UQ eSpace – for current UQ publications, preprints and research data

• Databases – PubMed, OVID Medline, EMBASE.com, Cochrane Library

MBBS Hons 2010

Accessing full text articles

via• Databases – OVID Medline, PubMed, Web of

Science, Scopus• UQ Library catalogue – find title of journal and

link to full text• Google , Google Scholar, Scirus• Document Delivery (Request It)

– Use it for journal articles where journals are in warehouse, at other libraries or not available at UQ

– we email the pdf document to your student email

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Other methods of finding citations

• Look at bibliographies and studies within Systematic reviews

• Cited reference searching

– use Scopus, Web of Science or Google Scholar

Also use:

• Limiting

• Title searching

• Using Subject heading terms – MeSH or Emtree headings

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Endnote

• A place to store your references and notes & pdfs

• Saves you hours when writing

inserts in-text citations and will produce your bibliography in the reference style you want

• Endnote X4 will import data from a pdf and will also pull in the full text of articles for you.

http://www.library.uq.edu.au/endnote/

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Searching – develop your search strategy

• Define your topic and summarise it into one or two sentences. – Can use PICO

• Identify the key concepts

• List possible synonyms or related terms for those concepts. Alternative spellings.

• Combine the key terms or concepts in your search

• Note: there is not one perfect search!

MBBS Hons 2010

Use Boolean Searching…

Combine similar words with OR

Combine concepts with AND

AND - narrows a search eg clothing and infection control

OR – broadens a search eg myocardial infarction OR cardiovascular

event

NOT - excludes terms eg human not animal

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Tips for searching PubMed

• Combine your searches in history – (in Advanced)

• Use Details to make sure you know how Pubmed has searched!

• Use MeSH and keyword searching

• Can use field searching (in Advanced)

• Use Limits to narrow your search

• Can use clinical queries to find different study types depending on your clinical question type

• Can register with My NCBI – to save searches and filter out your results

MBBS Hons 2010

A new Library Newsletter

http://www.library.uq.edu.au/hsl/herston/#newsletter

MBBS Hons 2010

Finally…

• Contact me to check on or refine your search strategy

• We can organise a class for further searching tips and/or how to use Endnote.

Please email me….

j.mctaggart@uq.edu.au