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BIOL 3241Medical Physiology
Professor Traci Welch MoritzHeterick Memorial Library
Research and the Library
What we’ll do today
Scientific or Systematic Literature review review
Research reviewChoose a topicBackground researchUsing correct resourcesManaging what you find
How am I suppose to remember all this?
ONU ID is Library card
EVAEva Maglott00021559801
Eva Maglott
Please use all digits in your student ID number.
Bibliographic Citation Software
REFWORKS
Literature Review What is it?
Survey of sources, scholarly articles, government docs, books,
dissertations, conference proceedings…
Overview of significant literature on a topic often limited to a
specific time period
Scientific Literature Review
What is it not? An academic research paper which is
most often constructed as an argument and the information you are seeking is to support said argument
An annotated bibliography as most bibliographies contain sources found
and often read but not cited in the text
What is it? Whatever your professors tell
you they want!Bates College Department of BiologyUniversity Library, UC Santa Cruz
Medical Sciences Divsion of University of Oxford
Systematic Literature Review
Choose a topic, broad is okay Do your background research Identify key words and phrases to
aid in searching Books Professor Librarian
How to begin
So what next?
• Start big doing background reading• Look for patterns• Look at reference sources, your
textbooks, LC subject heading list, subject headings in research tools to establish a controlled vocabulary Ask a librarian
• Look at thesaurus in the research tools such MeSH for Medline or CINAHL Headings (CH)
Google and Wikipedia aren’t intrinsically evil, just use them for the correct purpose in your research.
Internet Tools
Google ScholarONU buysFull-textdatabase
OhioLINKPermits
Google tolink to full-text
Google asksto link tocontent
ONU user sees licensed full-textarticles
Run Google ScholarSearch
Note: If working offcampus please see the “Google scholar” tab at the Research Guide for BIOL 3241
Internet Tools
Critically analyzing web sources
What? is the page/site about Who? created and maintains this site Where? Is the information coming from Why? Is the information presented on the
web When? Was the page created or last
updated How? Accurate or credible is the page
From the University of Wisconsin Library, worksheet for evaluating web sites
www.malepregnancy.com
What do I do next?
Use library resources to continue your background research.
Back Ground Research
CatalogsHML, Law
OhioLINKWorldCat
Cell phones and men’s health
Boolean search strategies
What is included?
POLAR Article-level searching for all EBSCO
databases Article-level searching for a variety of
other databases: JSTOR, Hoover’s, AccessPharmacy, etc.
Title-level searching for most other databases: IEEE, CIAO, Proquest Nursing & Allied Health
OhioLink central catalog
Results: Full Text, Polar
Results: OhioLink
Results: Find It @ ONU
Results: ILL
Facets: Limit Your Results
Things to Remember
Facets are your Friend: After you search, limit your results to what you really want
A tool not a solution: This is not the solution to everything
Ask the librarians for help There will still be some small
changes coming
Scholarly, Peer-reviewed Popular Periodical means the
same as MagazineUsually magazines
are more “popular”
JournalsScholarly or
ProfessionalPeer reviewed
See Research Guide for BIOL 3241 for this and other Handouts
Find a Book∞POLAR
•Looks in several locations (usually subject, article title, abstracts or contents)•Does not require an exact match•Generates comparatively large number of hits (not precise)•Good if you are not familiar with terminology•Look for the same or similar words which keep appearing
Find a Book∞POLAR
•Looks in one place – subject•Usually requires an exact match between your term and a pre-set list of terms•Precise•Can be used after keyword search has identified specific subjects•Click on the “Find Similar Items” link found on each item record
Find a Book∞POLAR
Find a Book∞OhioLink
Materials owned by all Ohio colleges, universities, several public libraries
Ca. 10 million items Link from POLAR permits you to submit
requests. Available from Heterick home page
Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days No charge Limited to 100 items at a time MAY RENEW UP TO 4 TIMES
What do I do next?
Use databases to find articles based on your search strategy
Next? Narrow Topic
DatabasesGeneralDiscipline specific
Effects of cell phone use on the male population
Databases
Databases -- General
Academic Search Complete
Database -- Specific 2 Biology
Database -- Specific 2 Medicine
CINAHL plus with full textMEDLINE with full textProquest Nursing and Allied Health
Scopus Biological Abstracts with BIOSIS Preview
ISI Science Citation Index
Databases
You can cut and paste from most any source, so just fill in all the lines you can. ISSN is the unique number every periodical is assigned so it’s great if you can include that in your request. Be sure to only use the print ISSN, not the on-line ISSN.
InterLibrary Loan
“General” databases – searchable by subject, title, author, etc.
Citation databases – as above but tells you who has cited a particular article - significance
Citation Databases
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1980-present
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1980-present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1980-present
Combined into product, Web of Knowledge
Citation Databases (ISI)
Your Search Terms Your Search Terms
Keyword / subject
Author
Title
Etc
KW / subject
Author
Title
Etc.
Sources (citations)used byauthorsthemselves
General or Subject specific database Citation database
Gauge significance of individual articles & authors
Uses expertise of experts in the field
Gives insight into research patterns in different disciplines
Can save you time – especially when doing more rigorous research
Advantages
Need more help?
http://libguides.onu.edu/aecontent.php?pid=199190&sid=2118629
Reference Desk [email protected]
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Librarians of Heterick Memorial Library