Library

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Library InformationServices in the Health
Sciences LIBR538F - January 22nd, 2003

• Instructors
• Dean Giustini
• Diane Helmer

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Tonights Agenda - January 22nd

• Business arising issues from...
• e-mail assignments practicum Vancouver style
  
• Learning objectives
• Three segments
• MEDLINE review more advanced techniques
• Introduction to CINAHL EMBASE
• Break (20 minutes)
• Search exercises in SLAIS computer lab

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Learning Objectives

• At completion of class, you should have an
  overview of
• More MEDLINE searching via PubMed OVID
• The basics of searching EMBASE CINAHL
• The controlled vocabularies beyond MeSH
• Some advanced search techniques
• Answering some basic questions using the major
  health databases

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Three sample information requests

• A patron asks about the origins of the term
  dance mania - what kind of disorder is it?
• Is there current research about it? Monographs?
• Muenchausens syndrome by proxy.
• What is this syndrome? Review articles? Where can
  a HSL librarian Iook for supplementary
  information?
• Hospital administration phones
• They want all articles written by Dr. Forsyth in
  Calgary Alberta. Seems to be a neurologist.

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MEDLINE Review

• Scope of database
• of journals indexed? of citations? Years?
  Subject content?
• Different interfaces
• PubMed, OVID - whats the difference?
• MeSH linked to NLM classification
• NLM classification has broad categories, relying
  on the MeSH for more detailed subject access

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CINAHL Overview

• Scope of database
• of journals indexed? of citations? Years?
  Subject content?
• Different interfaces
• OVID, EBSCO at RNABC
• CINAHL headings
• Used in the UBC Library catalogue?

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EMBASE Overview

• Scope of database
• of journals indexed? of citations? Years?
  Subject content?
• Structure
• Polyhierarchic like MeSH facets and cascading
  EMTREE terms
• Search interface
• OVID only some free via Science Direct

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SLAIS Computer Lab

• MEDLINE
• Sample search - Dean and Diane
• CINAHL
• Sample search - Diane
• EMBASE
• Sample search - Dean and Diane