Finding literature in the field

Search Strategies for public health field work

Objectives

Review Open Access journal options

Review the informatics concepts of Boolean searching, field codes, and hierarchical subject headings

Review options outside of journal literature

Review use of RefWorks to save bibliographic data

Open Access?

Concerns about Open Access?

Concerns about Open Access?

Open Access Options for NYC Fieldwork: DOAJ

Open Access Options for NYC Fieldwork: PMC

Open Access Options for NYC Fieldwork: PMC

Searching DOAJ

If you select the “Health Sciences” subject category and then the “Public Health” category, the result set does not change, but if you select the “Health Sciences” category and then the “Neoplasms. Tumors. [etc.]” category, the number of articles in the result set increases. Why?

Searching DOAJ

How would retrieve all the articles filed in either the public health or sociology categories that mention either “program evaluation” or “program assessment” in their abstracts?

Searching PMC

How would you retrieve all of the articles in the “community health planning” subject category that mention either “participatory action” or “ethnography” in their titles or abstracts?

Non-journal Resources

Capturing Citation Data

References

Beall J. List of Publishers. Scholarly Open Access. http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/. Accessed February 11, 2015.

Bohannon J. Who’s Afraid of Peer Review? Science. 2013;342(6154):60-65. doi:10.1126/science.342.6154.60.

Pell J. Books on Research Methods in Public Health. About this Guide. http://libguides.library.hunter.cuny.edu/publichealthresearchmethods?hs=a. Accessed February 12, 2015.

Open Access Week. http://www.openaccessweek.org/. Accessed February 12, 2015.