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Finding quality journal articles for health sciences
Health sciences often require a very systematic way of searching. These videos offer additional support for search tips and techniques and specifically for cross-searching EBSCOhost databases such as CINAHL, Medline and PsycInfo.
Workshop description
Struggling to find those quality journal articles that you need for your literature review/dissertation?
This workshop will enable you to learn tips and techniques to enable you to find good quality journal articles using health databases via EBSCOhost.
The workshop will provide an opportunity to develop the essential search techniques that you will need to perform your searches effectively, providing the necessary skills to find quality journal articles.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Identify key search terms and discover smart ways to search
- Effectively look for quality journal articles using EBSCOhost databases
- Conduct an advanced search using appropriate techniques
- Limit and filter searches accordingly to narrow or broaden results
- Save your searches and save articles into folders
- Cross search databases and remove duplicates
Who this workshop is for
Ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students who need to conduct an advanced literature search. Students from Health Sciences will find this particular useful as it demonstrates searching CINAHL, Medline and PsycInfo. Although searches use an example from dementia, the techniques can applied to midwifery, clinical psychology, physiotherapy, sport sciences, physiotherapy and biomedical sciences.
Facilitator
This workshop is run by an Academic & Library Specialist from the Brynmor Jones Library Skills Team.
Workshop outline
Work your way through the videos in the order provided then try the suggested activities beneath each one.
Video 1: Health sciences: Advanced searching for finding quality journal articles
Activity: After watching the video think about your own research topic and what key terms you will use to search with. Also consider if you can apply the search techniques to your own terms such as truncation, phrase searching and alternative terms.
Video 2: Health Sciences: Inputting your search terms on EBSCOhost databases
Activity: After watching the video, use the EBSCOhost databases to try searching for your own topic area using the terms you identified from the activity in video 1. Then try creating an EBSCO account and practice saving your search and saving articles.
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