SPH Library Resources for the Electronic Environment Pt. 1 Basic Database Information

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SPH Library Resources for the Electronic
Environment- Pt. 1Basic Database Information

• Helena VonVille
• Originally presented at Summer Institute-- July
  18, 2002
• Updated 7/31/2003

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Topics

• Pt 1 Basic database information
• Pt 2Locating FT of journal articles
• Pt 3 Creating links to e-articles
• Pt 4 Online books
• Pt 5 Creating Bibliographies

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Basic database information

• Over 80 indexing/abstracting dbs from which to
  choose
• Specialized as well as multidisciplinary
• E.g. Medline vs. Academic Search Premier

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Remote access to databases

• Basic Rule
• To provide remote access, all links on your web
  pages to an e-journal or database must include
  the proxy URL as part of linking URL

http//www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu2048/login?url
Ex. Medline from Ovid http//www5.sph.uth.tmc.ed
u2048/login?qurlhttp//gateway.ovid.com/autologi
n.html
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Remote access to databases

• By linking through proxy, remote users will have
  access to all of the resources
• An active SPH username and password are required
  to access SPH Library materials remotely, i.e.
  away from the Houston campus

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Basic database informationHow do I choose?

• Medline primary research db for biomedical
• PubMed (Public Medline)
• LinkOut activated online access to some fulltext
• Ovid Medline
• Sophisticated interface allows for complex
  searches
• May take training to learn how to use well
• Ebsco Medline
• MeSH available, with links to search for fulltext
• Expert search shows all searches, includes limits

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Basic database informationMoving beyond Medline

• Access to several multidisciplinary databases
• Are they appropriate for graduate students?
• Unqualified yes!

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Basic database informationMoving beyond Medline

• Academic Search Premier
• Multidisciplinary database
• FT for nearly 3,100 peer-reviewed titles
• FT for almost 4,000 total titles
• 8,000 indexed/abstracted titles
• Over 100 journals back to 1975 or further

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Basic database informationMoving beyond Medline

• Business Source Premier
• Designed specifically for businesses libraries
• 3,298 full text scholarly journals business
  periodicals
• More than 250 of the journals have PDF full text
  back to 1965 or the first issue published

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Basic database informationMoving beyond Medline

• Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition
• 453 peer-reviewed full text journals
• 855 indexed/abstracted titles
• FT coverage includes Issues in Mental Health
  Nursing, Journal of Child Adolescent
  Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Community Health
  Nursing

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Basic database informationMoving beyond Medline

• Academic Universe
• FT for more than US top 50 newspapers by
  circulation
• FT for major English-language internatl
  newspapers
• Shephards citations for US Supreme Court back to
  1789
• State and Federal codes/statutes
• FT law review articles from 450 titles

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Basic database informationMoving beyond Medline

• Environmental Universe
• Online version of Environment Abstracts
• Codes regulations
• Case law
• Federal and state waste site data and hazardous
  materials information

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Basic database informationMoving beyond Medline

• Web of Knowledge
• Links to
• Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
• Locate journal impact factors
• Web of Science access to Social Science Citation
  Index (SSCI) and Science Citation Index (SCI)
• SSCI indexes 1,725 journals covering 50
  disciplines
• SCI indexes 5,700 scientific journals

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Basic database informationMoving beyond Medline

• PsycINFO
• Indexing/abstracting for journal articles, book
  chapters, books, dissertations, and technical
  reports
• Covers the field of psychology and psychological
  aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine,
  sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology,
  anthropology, business, and law
• More than 1,500 periodicals spanning 1887 to
  present
• No fulltext online

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Basic database informationMoving beyond Medline

• PsycARTICLES
• FT of 38 journals published by the APA and 4 from
  allied organizations
• Contains all journal articles, letters to the
  editor and errata from each of the 42 journals
• 18 titles go back to 1988

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Basic database informationMoving beyond Medline

• Sociological Abstracts
• Premier online resource for researchers,
  professionals and students in sociology and
  related disciplines
• Approximately 2,600 journals screened yearly
• Includes abstracts of books, association papers,
  dissertations and book reviews from 1963 to the
  present

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Basic database informationMoving beyond Medline

• AP Photo Archive
• Photos date back to 1880s
• Ex with text A 250 foot mountain of slag tower
  is seen near houses in the City of Torreon,
  Mexico, Saturday, May 29, 1999. Penoles, Mexico's
  largest silver plant, has reduced their
  production and begun a massive environmental
  clean up ordered by the Mexican goverment, after
  medical studies found lead poisoning in children
  living in the area surrounding the plant. (AP
  Photo/Susana Gonzalez)

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Basic database informationMoving beyond Medline

• Need additional guidance? Try Online Databases by
  Subject
• http//www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/library/databases_by_su
  bject.htm

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Basic database informationDatabase search
strategies

• Online instruction available
• Also available as handout
• Classes offered each semester as well

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Conclusion

• Dont wear yourself out over the online stuff
• The Library will help however we can
• Helena VonVille
• x9131
• Or by e-mail

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Thank you!

• Questions? Comments?