Using Publicly Available Databases

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Using Publicly Available Databases

• A PowerPoint guide to connecting to web-based
  databases available to the whole community, such
  as PubMed (Medline) and the Cochrane Library.

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To access our links to publicly available
databases, go to the main Library page ...
And click here.
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This is our Library research / Database page.
Scrolling down
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And click here.
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This is the Publicly available databases page.
Scrolling down
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This is the full list of links on the page.
As an example, please link to PubMed by clicking

Here.
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Youll see some explanatory text, then you can
access PubMed itself by clicking
Here.
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You should reach this page. Now you can commence
your searches.
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Now we will look at the web-based
Cochrane Library by clicking ...
Here.
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This is the Librarys page of Cochrane links
And here to actually access the Cochrane Library.
Here to access the User guide
Click here to access the NICS guide
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This is the Cochrane Library page, and you
can now begin your searches.
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This concludes the tutorial on Publicly
Available Databases. Please contact the Library
on [phone], fax [phone] or email us
on library_at_racgp.org.au if you have any
difficulties or questions.