Searching Midirs

What is the Midirs collection?

Midirs provides access to the following midwifery journals:

Essentially Midirs – monthly journal reviewing the latest research with some analysis of its impact for midwifery

Midirs Midwifery Digest – quarterly midwifery journal.

If you are doing a systematic review, you should include a search of these two key titles as they are not covered in any of the other UCS nursing and health databases.

Accessing Midirs journals

Go to the A-Z of e-Journals (UCS homepage)

Type Midirs into the search box and select one of the titles.

Accessing Midirs JournalsAlternatively, go to the A-Z of databases and select Nursing, midwifery & health from the subject link to the left of the page.

Browsing & searching

Firstly you will see a page showing articles within the latest issues. From here you can also navigate to back issues.

To search for a specific topic, click on the Search tab.

Basic searching Basic Search is useful for quick searching.

Click on the Include Related Terms link to automatically include word variations, synonyms, acronyms etc. in your search results.

Basic Searching

The most effective way to do a Basic Search is to write your queries in natural language, such as What is the effect of low thyroid function on heart failure as Ovid uses natural language processing to interpret your query.

The Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) have no special meaning in Basic Search. They are interpreted as plain English words that separate other, more important words.

TIP! If you want to use Boolean operators or other advanced searching techniques, use Advanced Search instead.

Advanced searching

Use Advanced Search for additional search options and limits.

TIP! Combining previous searches can only be done using Advanced Search.

Proximity searching

"Home birth" - finds only Home birth

"Home birth*" - finds a fixed string with variable endings for birth e.g. Home births

Home ADJ2 birth - finds birth within 2 or less words of home e.g. Home and hospital birth

Home ADJ2 birth*- same as the above but would also find Home and hospital births

TIP! The combination of ADJ and * in the title field works in the keyword field but not the title field.

Search results

Search results are displayed above the search box. Click Display to view them.

Combining searches

Tick the boxes of previous searches you wish to combine.

Click on the And button.

Combining searches

The combined results appear as search 4. Click on Display to view the results.