Search Tools for You

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Search Tools for You
First they do an online search

• Nancy Schaefer
• Health Science Librarian for Public Health
  Program
• nancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu
• 352.392.1306
• PHC 6937Organization and Administration of
  Public Health

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National Epi Stats

• National Center for Health Statistics
• www.cdc.gov
• CDC Data and Statistics page http//www.cdc.gov/no
  de.do/id/0900f3ec8000ec28
• CDC Wonder http//wonder.cdc.gov/
• Inter-University Consortium for Political and
  Social Research http//www.icpsr.umich.edu/index.h
  tml

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One-stop shopping for national health stats!
http//phpartners.org/health_stats.html
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State Epi Stats

• Florida CHARTS http//www.floridacharts.com/charts
  /chart.aspx
• Kaiser Family Foundation State Health Facts
  http//www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfact
  s.cgi

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Databases that May Identify Publications on Your
Topic

• PubMed
• AIDS and Cancer Research in Cambridge Scientific
  Abstracts
• ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
  also in Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
• PsycINFO

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Barebones Basics of How to Search

• 1. Choose a database that is likely to cover your
  topic

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Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
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Ebsco databases
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More Databases in Ebsco
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WilsonWeb databases
Search one or more individually or all
simultaneously through WilsonWebs Omni File
Full Text Mega
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In that database, look for a section entitled
Thesaurus, Headings, Descriptors or MeSH Database
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Type your disease/condition/issue into the Browse
or Search box
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See if you can add a subheading to narrow your
topic to the epi of X or interventions for X
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See if you can EXPLODE the termsearch on that
term and more specific variations of that term.
PubMed automatically explodesyou have to tell it
not to!
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See if you can limit your search results to
articles in which your topic is the major focus
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Or run separate searches on different topics,
then combine in History
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Narrow results on Limits or Refine/Revise/Edit
Search pages by adding additional criteria.
Ebsco
PubMed
Cambridge Scientific
WilsonWeb
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Or search with keywords. Use truncation
wildcard symbols, etc.
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Consult the Tutorials/Index/ Help/Guide for
truncation wildcard symbols or phrase
searching standards, since these vary.
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Check access to full-text.Select items to add to
a Master File for later emailing/printing,
saving to file
Called Marked List, Folder or Clipboard
depending on the database
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Select output mode. Be realistic about cost of
printing email capacity limitations.
DefaultDetailed but all you need is Brief
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Getting full-text
In PubMed, set the Display pull-down to Abstract
or Citation, then click on UF HSC Online.
Publisher icons at left often dont give free
access.
If no buttons in PubMed, try clicking on Links at
right, then on LinkOut.
In most other databases, an SFX button is your
best bet for access to full-text.
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Best sources of full-text beyond the SFX and
PubMed buttons
Ejournals page http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/r
esources/EJframe.html UF Library Catalog
(select Journals/Serials if looking for a journal
title) http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/resources
/catalog/catalog_navbar_frameset1.htm
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• Still no luck? Try Ulrichs at http//www.library.
  health.ufl.edu/resources/index.htmu
• Click on
• Type Title keywords or exact title. Set pull-down
  accordingly.
• Click Go.
• Scroll to URL line and click on link. SOMETIMES
  you can get full-text this way.

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Websites for possible free full text (in
decreasing order of probability)
http//www.freemedicaljournals.com/ http//www.bio
medcentral.com/ http//www.bioone.org/perlserv/?re
questindex-htmlClick on Browse near top for
current or old (Archived) issues http//highwire.s
tanford.edu/ Multidisciplinary http//www.doaj.org
/ Multidisciplinary http//www.jstor.org/ Click
on Browse, then Alphabetic list of journals
at top right multidisciplinary, not much health,
older issues
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Special Queries
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Toxnet

• Hazardous Substances Data Bank
• Toxicology Literature Online
• Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information
  System
• Developmental Reproductive Reproductive
  Toxicology Database
• Genetic Toxicology Data Bank
• Integrated Risk Information System
• International Toxicity Estimates for Risk
• Toxics Release Inventory

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Specialized Websites
Public Health Webliography http//www.library.heal
th.ufl.edu/help/PHWebsites.htm
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National Womens Health Indicators
http//www.healthstatus2010.com/owh/select_variabl
es.aspx
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Office of Minority Health

• http//www.omhrc.gov/

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PH Partners Interventions sites

• Kansas State Universitys RE-AIM
• http//www.re-aim.org/index.html
• Public Health Indicators and National Data
  Health http//www.communityphind.net/Health.htm
• CDCs Health-Related Quality of Life Prevalence
  Data http//apps.nccd.cdc.gov/HRQOL/

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DHHSs Best Practices in Public Health
http//phs.os.dhhs.gov/ophs/BestPractice/
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SAMHSA (mental health/substance abuse)
Prevention Resources
http//captus.samhsa.gov/
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Evidence-Based Public Health Interventions
http//health-evidence.ca/
Free registration use
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Guide to Community Preventive Services
http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?ridhsta
t3.part.4767
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CDCs Diffusion of Effective Behavioral
Interventions for HIVPrevention
http//www.effectiveinterventions.org/
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Disaster Preparedness
http//library.med.nyu.edu/library/eresources/tool
kits/disaster.html
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Injury info
http//www.cdc.gov/ncipc/
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National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine http//nccam.nih.gov/
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Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/resources/index
.htmn
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New York Academy of Medicines Quarterly Grey
Literature Report http//www.nyam.org/library/gre
yreport.shtml
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GRAY Literature database

• Go to Database Locator http//web.uflib.ufl.edu/lo
  cator.html
• Type in gray
• Click Search

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Still cant find what you need?

• Email me NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu
• Call me 352.392.1306
• Weekdays use UFs AskALibrarian virtual chat
  reference http//www.uflib.ufl.edu/ask.html
• Use HSCs Email Reference Service
  http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/forms/reference.
  htm
• Call HSCs Reference Desk 9-500 Mon-Friday
  352.392.3585
• Use State of Floridas AskALibrarian service
  http//www.askalibrarian.org/vrl_intro.asp?library
  FLOLSL00