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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
MBBS Hons 2010
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
MBBS Hons 2010
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/
MBBS Hons 2010
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
MBBS Hons 2010
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
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