Database help
Medline, Pubmed, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar
MEDLINE | PubMed | Web of Science | Scopus | BIOSIS | CINAHL | Google Scholar
Ovid MEDLINE
| Quick help sheets |
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| • Basic help (PDF 140 KB) • Advanced help & shortcuts (PDF 125 KB) |
• Advanced search overview (5 min) • Formulating questions using PICO (5 min) • Medical subject headings (11 min) • Applying limits to search results (3 min) • Find citation overview (2 min) • Search tools overview (4 min) • Search fields overview (3 min) • Search page overview (3 min) • Multi-field search overview (3 min) |
• Save search strategies (3 min) • Create auto alerts & RSS feeds (4 min) |
• Save to RefWorks (2 min 20 sec) • Save to EndNote (3 min) • Personal accounts and workplace customization (4 min) • Working with results (4 min) |
PubMed
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| • PubMed basics (PDF) • Searching PubMed with MeSH (PDF) |
• Simple subject search (1 min) • Search for an author (3 min) • Search by author and subject (1 min) • Search for a journal (3 min) • Searching with MESH database (3 min) • Combining MESH terms (4 min) • Subheadings and other features (5 min) • Tutorial: PubMed (comprehensive, all aspects) • Training manual PubMed (complete) (pdf) |
• Saving searches (4 min) • Changing saved searches (3 min) • Email alerts from favourite journals (4 min) |
• Saving to RefWorks (3 min) • Saving to EndNote (2 min 39) • Collections in myNCBI • Sharing collections in myNCBI |
Web of Science
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| • Help sheet (PDF) | • Search tips (7 min) • Advanced Citation Tracking (3 parts) • Cited Reference Searching (7 min) • Citation Report & H index (6 min) • Citation Map (6 min) • Journal citation reports (impact factors) basic |
• Citation Alerting (4 min) • Saving search histories & creating alerts (6 min) |
• Saving to RefWorks (3 min) • Managing search results (4 min) • Exporting & using citation report data (8 min) |
Scopus
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| • Basic search • Basic citation tracking (3 parts) • Cited reference searching • Author searching |
• Using personalized features | • Saving to RefWorks (3 min) • Reviewing search results |
BIOSIS
| Tutorials |
| • BIOSIS in Web of Knowledge (8 mins) • About Biosis Back Years (8 mins) |
CINAHL
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Tutorials |
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| • Transition to CINAHL for Ovid users (Word doc) | • Basic (6 min; requires Flash) • Advanced (7 min; requires Flash) |
•Saving to RefWorks |
Google Scholar
| Help Tips |
Tutorials |
Results |
| • About Google Scholar • Author search |
• Citation tracking (2 parts) | • Saving to RefWorks (3 min) • Understanding results |
