Quick guide to searching CINAHL EBSCOHost2.0 interface

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Quick guide to searching CINAHL (EBSCOHost2.0
interface)

• Health Sciences Library
• University of Ottawa
• Summer 2008

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Outline

• What is CINAHL?
• Planning your search
• Using CINAHL headings
• Limiting your search, displaying results
• Getting articles
• Using RefWorks
• Need help?

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What is CINAHL?

• Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
  Literature
• Primary database for Nursing literature (the
  other PubMed/Medline)
• Indexes close to 2,600 journals
• English language, 1982
• Off-campus access for UO students, staff, faculty

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Accessing CINAHL

• 1) Health Sciences Library
• 2) Key Resources
• 3) Click on CINAHL

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STOP, THINK!

• Planning your search

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Planning your Search

• 1) Ask a Question
• 2) What are your different concepts?
• 3) Choose your main concepts
• Can Mrs.Smith, a 50 years old female patient,
  prevent breast cancer by taking vitamins or
  dietary supplements?

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Putting your concepts together

• What is the relationship
• between your concepts?

AND
Learn more about AND, OR, boolean () operators
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Searching - One concept at a time
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Mapping to CINAHL headings
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Meet your CINAHL heading
Consider options and subheadings
Narrower Terms
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Results for concept 1
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Search concept 2
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Expanding concept 2
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Results for concept 2
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Searching concept 3
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You can choose multiple headings
Choose both
Click Search Database to search both of your
chosen headings - inclusive
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Results of the last operation
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Go to your search history
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Selecting sets from the Search History
Combine with AND
Combine with OR
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And your final result is
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Add limits to your search
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Limited search
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Default display
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Default display - customize
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Full bibliographic reference
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Does the library have this article?
If you see a pdf link, click on it!
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Full text article
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Does the library have this article?
Click GetIt
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SFX window
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Full text article
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What if the article is not available?
Click here to access the Interlibrary Loan
service page
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Finding the most recent articles
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Select new database Pre-CINAHL
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Re-run your search on new database
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Why no results??
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Consult database information
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Go back to your search planning

• Use synonyms
• Use OR to connect synonyms
• Use AND to connect concepts which need to be
  present together in your article
• Use wildcard (?) or truncation () when
  appropriate

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Expand your vocabulary use synonyms

• Breast Cancer

Prevention
Prevention Prevent preventing Prevention Preventab
le Prevent
carcinoma(s) adenoma(s) tumor(s) tumour(s)
Breast AND
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Expand your vocabulary use synonyms

• Vitamins

Dietary or Nutritional Supplement
ascorbic acid biotin vitamin C vitamin A
vitamin E vitamin K Vitamin
diet nutrition
Supplement AND
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Textword searching with truncation
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Results
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Reference to a non-indexed article
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Save, Share, Alert
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Processing your results
Export to bib software
print
E-mail
Save
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Export to RefWorks
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RefWorks login page
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Importing into Refworks
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Your references in RefWorks
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More on RefWorks

• Web-based and accessible 24/7 via our UO library
  RefWorks page
• You need to register
• Try out the RefWorks tutorial
• Use the UO Librarys RefWorks FAQ

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Need help?

• Call us 613-562-5800 x 8294
• Email us refrgn_at_uottawa.ca
• Live chat with us
• Drop in during reference hours
• www.biblio.uottawa.ca/rgn