CINAHL

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CINAHL

• Basic Searching Techniques

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Basic (free-text searching)

• Basic searching is an unstructured search which
  looks for the terms which you enter anywhere in a
  reference. This will normally produce more hits
  than an advanced (thesaurus) search

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After this presentation you will be able to

• Create a basic search strategy
• Search the bibliographic database CINAHL for
  references to journal articles
• Use TDNet, the library periodical/journal
  catalogue to see if we have access to the
  references which you have found

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Bibliographic Databases what do they do?

• List bibliographic details of journal articles
• Author title of the article
• Journal title, volume, issue and page(s)
• Mostly refer to journal articles, but some refer
  to newspapers, conference papers, book chapters
  or videos.
• Can be searched much like WebCat.
• But

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They

• Do not normally include the full text of the
  article itself.
• Do not indicate whether the journal is in the
  Library.

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Library home page
www.soton.ac.uk/library
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Select one of these links
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Scroll down to see complete list
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Searching exercise

• Stroke rehabilitation helping the patient
  achieve independence

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Enter search term here then search
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Number of results
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These references will include

• References to articles about all aspects of
  stroke not just rehabilitation
• but
• They could also include references to articles
  about pet therapy (people who stroke animals are
  more relaxed)
• so..

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You need to write a detailed search strategy
which will help to improve the search
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From your search question

• Identify the concepts of your question
• List alternative keywords and phrases
• Include both narrow and broad terms
• List alternative spellings and punctuation

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Question, Concepts Keywords

• Stroke rehabilitation helping the patient
  achieve independence

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Identify your search terms

• Stroke rehabilitation helping the patient
  achieve independence

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Identify alternatives

• stroke
• cerebrovascular accident
• cva
• rehabilitation
• therapy
• physiotherapy
• occupational therapy
• independence
• activities of daily living
• patient
• client
• customer
• (you may not use all of the keywords/alternatives)
  

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Join these terms together using

• Boolean logic
• and
• Truncation

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Boolean Logic

• Allows you to search for multiple
  keywords
• or combines different expressions for the same
  concept
• children or juveniles
• and links two different concepts together
• children and communication

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Truncation

• Finds any keyword with a common stem
• Truncation symbol is commonly
• Physiotherap will find
• physiotherapist
• physiotherapists
• physiotherapy

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The search will look like this

• Search 1
• stroke or cerebrovascular accident
  or cva
• Search 2
• therap or rehabilitation or occupational therapy
  or physiotherapy

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2. Search
1. Enter search term/s
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3. Search
2. Enter new search term/s
1. Add row
Search results
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We now need to combine these searches to retrieve
references which include both concepts
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3.Choose the appropriate Boolean operator (in
this case and)
Results of second Search
1. Place a tick next to the searches you
wish to combine
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1. Final result
2. To cut down your results use this link
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We will limit by

• Year/s (2005-2009)
• Abstract available
• English language
• UK Ireland journals only

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Limit to
1. Year/s
2. Abstract available
3. English language
4. UK Ireland journals
Scroll down to activate search with limits added
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To look at the references use this link
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Full details of the reference
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Return to results display here
Abstract
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If this full text link is present it will lead
you straight to the article itself
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If there is no full text link check the title on
TDNet our journals database
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Marking and saving references
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2. then go to Folder View at the top of the page

• Add to folder those
• references you want
• to mark, page by page..

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Then select them (again)
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2. Then save your results
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Then choose how you want to save your results
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Go back to start another search or to exit
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This is what your saved results will look like
Your search strategy/history will be at the top
of the saved results.
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with the references below
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Getting Help

• Subject Enquiries
• Level 3, Hartley Library
• Or contact
• Susan Dawson, Vicky Fenerty or Dorothy Stratford
  via sohsenqs_at_soton.ac.uk