effective search strategies for health professionals education
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L I Z J O H N S & V I C T O R I A R I E S E , L I B R A R I A N S
EFFECTIVE SEARCH METHODS IN HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION
YOUR LIBRARIANS
Liz Johns
Librarian for [email protected]
In person and online office hours: guides.library.jhu.edu/emjohns
SOE Building & Eisenhower Library
YOUR LIBRARIANS
Victoria Riese
Clinical Informationist
Welch Medical Library
410-502-7570
TODAY…
Creating a Search Strategy
Identifying Appropriate Sources
Tips and Resources
CREATING A SEARCH STRATEGYT U R N I N G A T O P I C I N T O A Q U E S T I O N ; G E N E R AT I N G S E A R C H
T E R M S ; C O N N E C T I N G C O N C E P T S
START WITH A TOPIC
Group work in health professions education.
TRANSFORM INTO A RESEARCH QUESTION
Good research questions…
Encompass the main ideas
Are open ended
Are specific
Are concise
TRANSFORM INTO A RESEARCH QUESTION
C. How does working in groups of four in the classroom affect the learning process of young female nurses in health education programs?
B. How does group work affect the learning process in health professions education?
A. How does group work affect learning?
TRANSFORM INTO A RESEARCH QUESTION
Find the Right Balance: Not too broad, not too narrow.
C. How does working in groups of four in the classroom affect the learning process of young female nurses in health education programs?
B. How does group work affect the learning process in health professions education?
A. How does group work affect learning?
TRANSFORM INTO A RESEARCH QUESTION
How does group work affect the learning process in health
professions education?
START SEARCHING!
Type entire question
• What happens when you do this in Google?
• What happens when you do this in the library resources?
Use natural language
• Group work in health education
• Affect of group work on health education learning.
LIBRARY RESOURCES REQUIRE DIFFERENT STRATEGIES
IDENTIFY THE KEY CONCEPTS
How does group work affect the learning process in health
professions education?
IDENTIFY THE KEY CONCEPTS
How does group work affect the learning process in health
professions education?
EducationGroup work
Group work AND
ANDnarrows your search by connecting concepts
education
BUT WHAT IF…
…you get too few results?
THINK ABOUT ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS
Group work
Teamwork
Collaboration
Cooperative
ORBROADENS YOUR SEARCH BY SEARCHING FOR
RELATED CONCEPTS AT THE SAME TIME
Group work
Teamwork
Collaboration
Cooperative
OR
OR
OR
AND
Using AND & OR together
Education
Group work
OR
collaboration
QUICK POLL: AND/OR
FINDING VARIANT ENDINGS OF WORDS
GOOD TRUNCATION:
Search for: Collaboration
FINDING VARIANT ENDINGS OF WORDS
GOOD TRUNCATION:
Search for: Collaboration
FINDING VARIANT ENDINGS OF WORDS
GOOD TRUNCATION:
Search for: Collaborat*
You get: Collaborate
Collaboration
Collaborating
Collaborated
LESS EFFECTIVE TRUNCATION:
Search for: Coll*
You get: Collages
Collapsed
Collar
Collards
Collateral…
PRACTICE
1. Find your group2. Enter your name under your group3. With your group members, construct a research question based
on your assigned topic.4. Enter in main ideas, and synonyms/related terms for those main
ideas.5. Truncate main ideas and synonyms/related terms as appropriate.6. Create at least two search strategies that can be used in a library
database.
http://tinyurl.com/nw7deyc
IDENTIFYING APPROPRIATE SOURCES
K N O W I N G W H E R E TO LO O K A N D H O W TO E VA LUAT E
EDUCATION AND HEALTH SCIENCES GUIDE
Your starting point for research.
guides.library.jhu.edu/edhealthsci
Lists the best databases specific to your field. Click on the little info button next to each one to get a description for the database.
New and improved guide coming in February!
CHOOSING A DATABASE
Search more than one! Start with the databases in the Education and Health Sciences Guide.
Getting stuck? Not finding what you need? Think there’s more out there but don’t know how to get it?
ASK YOUR LIBRARIANS!
TOP DATABASES FOR YOU
Education
• ERIC
• Education Full Text
• PsycINFO
Medical/Health/Science
• PubMed
• CINAHL
• Scopus
• Web of Science
EXAMPLE SEARCH: ERIC
PRACTICE
1. Each group member choose a database.
2. Enter one of your search strategies into your database.
3. Locate at least one article related to your research question.
4. Enter the citation of the article into the Google doc in your group’s section.
5. Compare with your group. Did anyone find the same article? What kind of results did you get? What frustrated you about the search?
DID I FIND SOMETHING GOOD?
You be the Judge
Run your source through the CRAAP Test:
www.csuchico.edu/lins/handouts/eval_websites.pdf
Use Scholarly Metrics
Scholarly Metrics Guide: guides.library.jhu.edu/metrics
Highlighted Sources:• Ulrich’s
• Google Scholar Metrics
• Journal Citation Reports
• Eigenfactor
MORE TIPS AND RESOURCES
CITATION TOOLS
RefWorks
The library supports RefWorksfree of charge for JHU and JHMI
users.
guides.library.jhu.edu/refworks
Tutorial for Refworks coming soon. Be on the lookout for
RefWorks workshops this semester.
EndNote and others
Not supported by JHU/JHMI, but you can still use it!
The EndNote website has some great videos to help you
get started:endnote.com/training
Your librarians:SOE Librarian: Liz Johns
Welch Librarian: Victoria [email protected]
Online Research Guides:Guide for Education
guides.library.jhu.edu/education
Guide for Medicineguides.library.jhu.edu/medicine
Guide for MEHPguides.library.jhu.edu/edhealthsci
LIBRARY RESOURCES
Library Research Modules:Your Orientation Checklist in the ELC
RefWorks Guide:guides.library.jhu.edu/refworks
More Workshops:Spring Workshop Schedule coming soon!Refworks, staying up to date, presentation tools, and more!
QUICK POLL:
