Doing a literature search in Doing a literature search in biomedicine biomedicine

Juliet Ralph, Life Sciences & Juliet Ralph, Life Sciences & Medicine Librarian, Radcliffe Medicine Librarian, Radcliffe

Science LibraryScience Library

This session will coverThis session will cover

Planning the searchPlanning the search Search tools and information typesSearch tools and information types Obtaining the full text in Oxford and Obtaining the full text in Oxford and

beyondbeyond Evaluating results and reviewing Evaluating results and reviewing

your search strategyyour search strategy Subject encyclopedias and Subject encyclopedias and

handbookshandbooks Books (research monographs)Books (research monographs) Journal articlesJournal articles Theses and dissertationsTheses and dissertations

The cycle of scientific literature

Idea

Research

Thesis

Conference paper

Journalarticle

Monograph

Textbook

Reference book

Getting started

Basics Credo Reference http://www.xreferplus.co.uk/

Reference sources - onlineReference sources - online

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Encyclopedia of Cancer International Encyclopedia of th

e Social & Behavioral Sciences Handbook of Statistics

……and in print (multi-volume)and in print (multi-volume)

Encyclopedia of molecular cell Encyclopedia of molecular cell biology and molecular medicinebiology and molecular medicine QH 506 ENC

Encyclopedia of virology Encyclopedia of virology QW 13 ENCQW 13 ENC

Comprehensive glycoscience : from chemistry to systems biology QU 75 COM

BooksBooks

Oxford’s library catalogue SOLOOxford’s library catalogue SOLO http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk

Research monographsResearch monographsLibrary of Congress Library of Congress

classification schemeclassification schemewww.ouls.ox.ac.uk/rsl/catalogues/l

ocation_of_reading_room_books

Beyond OxfordBeyond Oxford

COPAC: union catalogue of COPAC: union catalogue of major UK research librariesmajor UK research librarieshttp://copac.ac.uk/

WorldCat (OCLC): libraries WorldCat (OCLC): libraries worldwideworldwide Listed on SOLO Listed on SOLO

Journal articles

Bibliographic databases available via http://oxlip-plus.ouls.ox.ac.uk Listed by Title A-Z Listed by Subject

Medical Sciences

What are the respected What are the respected databases?databases? Bibliographic databases (Abstracting Bibliographic databases (Abstracting

& Indexing services)& Indexing services) multidisciplinarymultidisciplinary

Scopus (science & medicine)Scopus (science & medicine) Web of Science (all subjects)Web of Science (all subjects)

subject specific subject specific Medline (medicine)Medline (medicine) BIOSIS (experimental & pre-clinical BIOSIS (experimental & pre-clinical

medicine)medicine) Embase (the “European Medline”)Embase (the “European Medline”) PsycINFO (psychology)PsycINFO (psychology) Pubmed Pubmed

What are they searching?What are they searching?

Article titleArticle title AbstractAbstract Descriptors / Subject HeadingsDescriptors / Subject Headings Journal titleJournal title Authors Authors AffiliationAffiliation Journal titleJournal title ……..But not the full text..But not the full text

Coverage Coverage

JournalsJournals DatesDates ExtrasExtras

BiosisBiosis 50005000 1926-1926- ConfConf

EmbaseEmbase 45004500 1980-1980- ConfConf

MedlineMedline 46004600 1950-1950- TrialsTrials

PsycinfoPsycinfo 20002000 1806-1806- ChapterChapters/diss s/diss

PubmedPubmed 52005200 1950-1950- TrialsTrials

Coverage Coverage

JournalsJournals DatesDates ExtrasExtras

ScopusScopus 15,00015,000 1869-1869- Conf Conf proc & proc & patentspatents

Web of Web of ScienceScience

9,0009,000 1945-1945- Conf Conf proc & proc & book book reviewsreviews

Source lists Source lists

PsycINFO Journal Coverage ListPsycINFO Journal Coverage List http://www.apa.org/PsycINFO/covlist.htmlhttp://www.apa.org/PsycINFO/covlist.html BIOSIS Previews, and Web of ScienceBIOSIS Previews, and Web of Science http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/ http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/ EmbaseEmbase www.ovid.com/site/products/fieldguide/eldr/Journal_List.jsp PubmedPubmed www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=journalswww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=journals MedlineMedline www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.htmlwww.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html ScopusScopus www.scopus.com Listed on the Listed on the SourcesSources tab  tab  OvidOvid http://ovidsp.ovid.com/autologin Choose Choose Browse all journalsBrowse all journals To check where a journal is indexed:To check where a journal is indexed: Ulrich’s Periodical DirectoryUlrich’s Periodical Directory www.ulrichsweb.comwww.ulrichsweb.com Look under Abstracting & Indexing Sources

Full-text databases

Publisher sites ScienceDirect (Elsevier),

WileyInterScience Subscription needed to read full

text Open access repositories, eg

BioMed Central, PubMed Central

Search strategy

Pick out key concepts and keywords

I’m having difficulties with my thesis search strategy. I have been using the following:

“hiv or aids and policy or policies and Africa”

Search resultsSearch results

Too many hits?Too many hits? Use the Limits, e.g.Use the Limits, e.g.

Publication type (e.g. Reviews)Publication type (e.g. Reviews) Date Date LanguageLanguage

Email or Save useful resultsEmail or Save useful results Save search and set up an Alert Save search and set up an Alert

so you can keep up-to-dateso you can keep up-to-date

Oxford theses & dissertationsOxford theses & dissertations

DPhil theses (and some DPhil theses (and some master’s dissertations) listed on master’s dissertations) listed on SOLOSOLO

Science and medicine ones at Science and medicine ones at Radcliffe Science LibraryRadcliffe Science Library

Oxford Research Archive (ORA)Oxford Research Archive (ORA)

Beyond OxfordBeyond Oxford

Dissertations and ThesesDissertations and Theses doctoral dissertations and doctoral dissertations and

master's theses, worldwide, from master's theses, worldwide, from 1861.1861.

Index to ThesesIndex to Theses List of theses (with abstracts) List of theses (with abstracts)

accepted for higher degrees by accepted for higher degrees by universities in universities in Great Britain and Great Britain and Ireland Ireland since 1716. since 1716.

Reference management tools

EndNote Desktop & Web versions www.myendnoteweb.com/ Easy export from Web of Knowledge

RefWorks Easy export from Ovid and Scopus Create an account at www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/refworks

Citation searching

To find out if a paper has been cited by othersHow many times and by whom

Follow research forward Science Citation Index (Web of

Science) indicates “Times Cited” Scopus equivalent “Cited By”

The research process

“Engage” website www.engageinresearch.ac.uk/

index.html interactive guide to the research process in

bioscience getting started reviewing the literature planning your research statistics writing up & presenting your research.

WISER sessions

Ovid databases.  Monday 9th February

Google Scholar – pros and cons.  Friday 13th February

SCOPUS for Science and Medicine.  Wednesday 18th February (RSL)

Biosciences: Reference management.  Wednesday 25th February (RSL)

Here to helpHere to help

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