Library Orientation

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Library Orientation
August 18, 2004
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Library Webpage

• http//www.library.health.ufl.edu

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Off-Campus Access
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Activate Gator1 ID Cards Online

• On Health Science Center Library homepage
  www.library.health.ufl.edu,

Go to Off-Campus Access tab Drag down to
Getting Started Near top of that page, find
Activate your Gator 1 card Click on the Go
here link Fill out the form
Go to Library Services tab Drag down past
Forms to Activate Gator 1 Card Fill out form
OR
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www.library.health.ufl.edu
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• Electronic ? full-text!
• Maybe only Table of Contents or Abstracts
• Dont expect full-text before 1995
• E-journals journals we get thru databases

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Searching
Type title
Thenclick!
Exact title?
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Title contains results
Carried from 4/00 in these 5 databases.
and from 8/99 in this database
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Publishers journal pages look different but work
similarly
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For journals NOT in E-Journals list

• On library homepage, click on catalog
• Click on Journals/Serials

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Use Browse Organized Lists

• Use 2nd/bottom search box
• Default Title Begins With
• Type journal (NOT article) title
• Full not abbreviated title
• Ignore a, an, the when theyre first word of
  title
• Dont bother with capital letters

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Catalog Results

• Youll see one title before your target title
  should appear in the alphabetic results list and
  several after it

Click on Brief Recs or title link for more info
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Full Record Catalog Display
Holdings summarizes the run of the journal from
the earliest to most recent issue held in the
library
All items lists every issue held on library
shelves
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Online Journals in Catalog

• Online version should be listed separately from
  print issues
• (Online) should follow title

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• Click on the journal title to get to the full
  record with link near top

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Looking for books/videos?

• Click on Full Catalog if the orange comment says
  You are searching UF Serials Catalog

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Advanced Search
Use this to

• Search multiple terms
• Limit results by
• publication year
• library
• language

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Database differences
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For Help with Databases

• The library holds free classes on using these
  databases.
• You can also use our Handouts from the classes
  and Tutorials from various sources to figure out
  on own how the different databases work.

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Ask a Librarian

• Thats my job as your liaison
• Nancy Schaefer
• 392-1306
• NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu
• Communicore Building C2-26E
• RefeXpress (upper left homepage)
• Email a Reference Question
• Reference Desk 392-3585
• 9-530 Monday-Thursday, 9-5 Friday

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Other library services

• Services/Forms tab
• at top of library homepage
• In library homepage
• left sidebars

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10 minute break
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PubMed
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Keyword Searching

• Truncation (3 characters )
• Machine machine, machines, machinery
• Phrase (multiple words adjacent in order)
• hearing loss
• No truncating with phrases
• no hearing loss

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Boolean Operators

• AND, OR, NOT
• When you these as commands rather than search
  terms, enter in ALL CAPS
• elderly OR aged
• aged AND balance
• When you connect terms with 2 different Booleans,
  use ( ) to group terms
• (elderly OR aged) AND balance

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Limits

• Click on the word Limits under the search box on
  the main PubMed page
• The limits will remain in effect until you change
  them or click the checkbox

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MeSH

• Medical Subject Headings
• Avoid false hits about judicial hearings, etc.
• Add subheadings for more specifically relevant
  results

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MeSH Database
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More MeSH Database Functions
Other possible terms to search
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History

• Review results lists
• Combine results sets
• Print for reminder of what you tried

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Results page
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Abstract Display
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Citation Display
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MEDLINE Display (for Reference Manager, EndNote)
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Journals Database
Translates abbreviated to full title and vice
versa Click on Links, then PubMed for all
articles from this journal
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Single Citation Matcher
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Clipboard

• Collect citations from any number of searches.
  Just click in the checkbox, change the pull-down
  to Clipboard and click the Send To button
• If you dont select citations, the first 500 on
  the page showing at the time you click Send
  toClipboard will move to the Clipboard

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Clip Remove

• To remove citations from your clipboard, click
  the checkboxes, change the pull-down to Clip
  Remove and click the Send To button
• Warning If you have not click ANY checkboxes,
  ALL citations will disappear from your Clipboard
  when you click on Send to Clip Remove

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Cubby

• Store search strategies for free on National
  Library of Medicine server
• Freeze results as of last date viewed
• Check Whats New on your search since the last
  date you ran that search strategy
• ALWAYS log off when on a public computer

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Example
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Emailing Results

• From Clipboard or a Results page,
• change the pull-down to Email and
• click the Send to button
• Make certain the number pull-down on the Email
  page is INCLUSIVE of all the results you want to
  receive.
• Break a long list into
• smaller chunks.
• Send your first results both
• HTML and Text format to
• see how your email looks.

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Contact me if you want help.Nancy
Schaefer392-1306NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu