Information Searching SkillsLinks to Training Tutorials

Information Quest

IUON Library

Catalogue Databases Internet

What is the ‘Catalogue’?

~ Index to materials housed in the library~ Links to free online ebooks~ Search by title, author, subject or

keyword~ Access IUON WebCAT online~ Help tutorial and LC Classification Info.

Databases

Searchable online subscription DB’s:~ Academic Search Premier~ CINAHL~ Medline~ DynaMed

Academic Search Premier

ASP contains indexing for @ 8,200 journals with @5,000 in full text covering most subjects.

http://support.ebsco.com/training/tutorials.php

CINAHLThe premier nursing journal DB,

indexes @3,000 journals & contains 70 in full text.

Tutorials:~http://support.ebsco.com/training/

flash_videos/CINAHLBasicSearching.html

~http://www.hscl.ufl.edu/help/CINAHL/index.htm

~http://support.ebsco.com/training/flash_videos/CINAHLAdvancedSearching.html

Medline

Includes abstracts and citations from

> 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Search using variety of interfaces:PudMed [free online]EBSCO [subscription]Ovid [subscription - not at IUON]

EBSCO Visual Search

DynaMed

A topical disease DB including EB Practice levels.

~http://support.ebsco.com/training/flash_videos/DynaMed-Black_Cohosh.swf

~http://support.ebsco.com/training/flash_videos/DynaMed-Carpal_Tunnel_Syndrome.swf

Freely Searchable Internet DB’s

Scirus~the most comprehensive science-

specific search engine on the Internet, Scirus searches over 415 million science-specific Web pages.

http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/aboutus/#top

PubMeda service of the

U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.

PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

~http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html

~http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/mesh/searching/mesh1.html

PubMed

~http://www.library.health.ufl.edu/PubMed/PubMed2/overview.html

~http://www.mssm.edu/library/tutorials/pubmed.html

~http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6596500669670012150&q=PubMed+searching

Boolean Logic

AND ~ narrows OR ~ broadens

http://www.ithaca.edu/library/course/expert.html

Tips & Tricks

~Phrases ( ) [ ] “ “~Wildcard ?~Truncation *~Tilde ~ ~Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT +, pipe |, -

http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/

Internet Indexes

~DMOZ~HON~MedlinePlus~HardinMD~NOAH

Search Engines

~Google Scholar~Medstory~ReleMed~Healia~MammaHealth~Kosmix

Diagnosing Websites

~Who~When~Where~Why~What

Happy Searching!Ann Celestine BA MLS AHIP

Library DirectorInternational University of Nursing