Searching for Substance Abuse Literature

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Searching for Substance Abuse Literature

• Nancy Schaefer
• University of Florida Health Science Center
  Library
• 392-1306
• NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu

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Your Assignment

• Entails 3 types of info
• Physiological/medical/pharmaceutical
• Psychological/emotional
• Validation of source authority
• (Are your sources scholarly references?)

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But first!

• A note on
• How to access resources from off-campus

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Remote Access to Electronic Resources

• Activate your Gator1 ID card
• online or
• at a campus library

• 2. Connect through
• Gatorlink
• EZProxy or
• VPN

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Getting to Databases

• Go to UF HSCL homepage http//www.library.health.u
  fl.edu/
• Click on Databases.

OR
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Useful Databases Cheat Sheet - Scope
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Useful Databases Cheat Sheet Scope II
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Anatomy of Databases Page
Quick Pick grid 20 most popular databases

• Alphabetic list of other databases

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Alphabetic List of Other Databases
Click on the red letter in the alphabet under the
Quick Pick grid that represents the first word of
your desired databases name
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Then click on the database name
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Search on a journal title or subject

• Set the pull-down to Title (Keyword) or Title
  (Exact) or Subject
• Type in a distinctive word in the title, the
  complete title or the subject term
• Click SUBMIT

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Ulrichs Basic Search Results

• Arranged alphabetically by title
• Note legend for Refereed and Electronic
• Click on red hyperlinked journal title for
  possible link to full-text

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Refereed?
Author submits manuscript to publisher
Publisher sends manuscript to 2 other experts in
the authors discipline for critique (thus also
called peer-reviewed)
Experts suggest changes
Author changes resubmits to publisher
Why? Ensures quality
Article is published
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Scroll down to URL line, click on hyperlink
Click on Abstracting/Indexing tab to find which
databases cover this journal
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MEDLINE is included in PubMed
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JCR (Journal Citation Report)

• Database that reports statistics on specific
  journals level of respect by experts
• of articles from a given journal are cited in
  other articles
• for how many years after their initial
  publication a journals articles are cited

Ranking criteria explained here
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Choose subject and sort criteria, then click
SUBMIT (under sort list)
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Results Sort criteria column highlightedTotal
of journals in upper Left
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Database Help/Guide pagesare your friends!

• Usually in upper right/upper center
• Tell/show you how to search
• Common functions
• Searching multiple words as phrases
• Truncating
• Mid-word substitution with a wildcard symbol
• Warning symbols, labels vary

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CINAHL Help Menu
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One search strategy doesnt fit all databases!
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Useful Databases Cheat Sheet Search Tips
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PubMed Subject Searching

• Exploits human summary of article content
  provided by subject headings
• Collects related terms and variant spellings and
  word forms (abuse, abused, abuses, abusers
  other terms at right)
• Enables precise simultaneous searching of
  specific ASPECTS of a condition

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Searching via Subject Headings vs. by Keywords

• Note Keyword searching
• requires quotation marks to search multi-word
  expression as a phrase
• requires listing of synonyms for therapy and
  truncation for singular and plural forms
• does NOT link tx to condition

Larger of results better chance for full-text
thru UF when limited to recent, English, pt traits
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Sample Keyword results
Sample Subject heading results
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Subject searching in PubMed

• Click on MeSH Database in left sidebar under
  PubMed Services

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MeSHing - I

• Type in term
• Click GO or hit ENTER on keyboard

2-minute tutorials remind you how to search
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MeSHing II

• Read through Suggestions and terms w/ definitions
• Click on hyperlink of best term

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MeSHing III

• Add as many subheadings as you wish (or none)
• Limit to articles in which the topic aspects are
  the major focus
• Click Send to

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Go Broad (or narrow) w/ MeSH Tree

• Beneath subheadings and Major checkboxes is the
  hierarchy or Tree of MeSH terms
• Use its hyperlinks to search more general
  (higher) or more specific (lower) terms than your
  current term

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Exploding

• Computer searches for selected term and ALL more
  specific (lower on tree) terms
• Automatic in PubMed
• Have to click in Do Not Explode under Major to
  turn off.

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Multi-Subheading Major Search
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• Select subheadings (and Major or Do Not
  Explode) as desired
• Change pull-down next to Send to button to
  Search Box with OR (we dont expect each result
  to have ALL subheadings in it!)
• Click Send to

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Edit and Send Search

• Highlight and hit DELETE to edit out
• Click additional checkboxes to add
• Happy with search strategy? Click Search PubMed

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Too many results?

• Scan results and edit search strategy in search
  box (highlight then hit delete)
• Click on Limits above results list

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Limits

• Use pull-downs to limit to
• article text in English (all abstracts are in
  English)
• recent publications
• Click GO or hit ENTER to apply

Results list will show limits applied (these stay
on until you log off or unclick or change them)
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Electronic version available from Publisher,
maybe not from PubMed
Come on down to HSC Library!
Click for full-text online
Click for similar articles
Article title (journal title on first line)
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Working with Results

• Click to select
• Change pull-down beside Send to to
  Clipboard/Email/Print
• Click Send to
• Page through result by clicking on NEXT, jump
  through by typing in non-adjacent page , then
  clicking on Page

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Clipboard

• Collect up to 500 results from any number of
  searches via Clipboard
• Click on Clipboard above results list
• To remove an item, click its checkbox, set
  pull-down to Clip Remove and click on Send to

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Cubby

• Free but you have to register
• Stores search results and strategies

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For more help

• Use the librarys tutorials and handouts for
  classes on databases
• OR
• Come to one of the librarys classes

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Does UF have that journal?

• Go to http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/
• 2. Click on Catalog under the Electronic
  Resources tab on top or under QuickLinks in the
  left sidebar

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Finding a journals full title

• An button will give full title.
• National Library of Medicines List of Serials
  Indexed may help translate abbreviated titles
  to full ones.

List of Serials Indexed
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Journal search

• Click on Journals/Serials at top
• Type full title of journal in Browse Organized
  Lists search box
• 3. Hit ENTER on keyboard or click GO

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Find click on your target title

• SHOULD be 2nd in list

• Browsing gives you similar titles, too!

(And shows that the new catalog can have
duplicate records)
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Record types
Online journal - Click at underlined text across
from Link
Print journal - Click across from Location
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www.library.health.ufl.edu
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• Electronic ? full-text!
• Maybe only Table of Contents or Abstracts
• Dont expect full-text before 1995
• E-journals journals we get thru databases not
  by individual subscription

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Searching
Unsure of exact title?
Type (words of) title
Thenclick!
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Databases thru which the electronic journal is
available
Dates available
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SFX link to full-text
UF has electronic versions thru 2 databases
UF has no electronic version
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Websites with SOME free full-text
http//www.freemedicaljournals.com/ http//www.bi
omedcentral.com/ http//www.bioone.org/
http//highwire.stanford.edu/
http//www.jstor.org/ http//www.doaj.org/
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Web of Sciencewho cited a paper for subsequent
research?
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Click on View Record, Then on Times Cited
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Possible additions to your bibliography??
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Database Clinical Pharmacology
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CP Online Result
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http//www.health.org/
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Results on methamphetamine
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Questions?

• Call or email me NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu
• [phone]
• Use RefExpress (virtual
  chat)
• Email the health science librarians at
  http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/forms/reference.
  htm
• Call the Health Science Center Library reference
  desk
• 9a - 5p weekdays
• [phone]

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Thank you for your attention.