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Population Health Honours: Researching the Literature
Lucia Ravi, LibrarianMedical & Dental Library
Honours: a whole new world, kind of…
Expanding upon your skills to problem solve, conduct research and communicate that research to broader literature context and community.
You should consider from the beginning, how you will:
Locate information – comprehensively and efficiently
Manage your information
Evaluate information
Store information
Use that information wisely in the correct context
As an Honours student you can…
Borrow an unlimited number of print books
Loan period to the end of semester (subject to recalls/renewals)
Access Get It: inter-library loans and document delivery
www.library.uwa.edu.au/information-resources/get-it
Utilise our postgraduate rooms (Med, Reid, Science)• Map location in Barry J Marshall Library• Map location in Medical and Dental Library • Map location in Reid Library
Reminder: UniDrive allows you to access your UWA networked storage drive from home. www.library.uwa.edu.au/current-students/it-help/storage
Subject Headings & Synonyms
Breaking down your search: Topic: Links between child health, obesity and urban design
concept 1 concept 2 concept 3
Key concepts Child health Obesity Urban design
Synonyms Child development Obese, overweight Urban planningEnvironmentUrban design
Boolean searching techniques? OR to join similar concepts
AND to join unique concepts
“quotation marks” for phrase searching
(brackets) for grouping and ordering
* to truncate words, e.g. child* and children
? wild card, e.g urbani?ation
Consider:
What other keywords would an author use?
Subject headings that might be used by the resource
Subject Headings & Synonyms
Breaking down your search: Topic: Links between child health, obesity and urban design
concept 1 concept 2 concept 3
Key concepts Child health Obesity Urban design
Synonyms Child development Obese, overweight Urban planningEnvironment
Search String: (“child health” OR “child development”) AND (“urban design” OR “urban planning” OR environment) AND obesity
Your Task
Write up your focus research topic or interest
Break this down to identify key concepts
Identify synonyms for your key concepts
Develop a search string strategy for your topic
Subject Headings & Synonyms
Breaking down your search: Topic: Links between child health, obesity and urban design
concept 1 concept 2 concept 3
Key concepts Child health Obesity Urban design
Synonyms Child development Obese, overweight Urban planningEnvironmentUrban design
OneSearch Public health Child Obesity Urbani?ationCity planning -epidemiology
Index terms:MeSHEmbaseOthers…..
Your Task
Sign in and try your search strategy in OneSearch
Review results and identify other key words and subject indexing terms
Identify some of the core collections your results are from.
Save your search query and some of good results to your e.shelf
A thorough search of the literature
Database ContentsAUSTHealth/Informit &Health Collection
Australian biomedical literature, from 9 databasesFull text health research from Informit (Select Subject)
CINAHL Plus/Ebsco Nursing and allied health literature
Global Health/Ovid Public health, environmental & occupational health, infectious diseases, nutrition
EMBASE/Ovid Broad biomedical and drug literature
MEDLINE/OvidPUBMED
Selected biomedical and health sciencesBroader biomedical and health sciences
PsycINFO/Ovid Psychological and behavioural sciences
Public Health/ProquestHealth & Medical Complete
Core public health literature, dissertations & newsFull text for up to 200 Medline titles
UWA Library
Complement your search using citations
Interesting Article(2010)
Citation (2011)
Citation (2013)
Citation (2014)
Reference (2003)
Reference (2008)
Specialist Citation Databases to try:
Use government and technical reports for further information
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Bureau of Statistics
World Health Organization
Google and Scholar
• try limiting your search to .org.au or .gov.au
or .edu.au domains using the Advanced Search
Use Boolean & Google Operators and Google to limit searches
Search terms, then site:org
site:edu
http://www.googleguide.com/using_advanced_operators.html
UWA Subject Guide and Database Lists
Population Health – UWA Subject Guide Link
Database specific searching
Database specific searching - Medline
Database specific searching - Medline
Join all similar
terms with OR
Keeping up-to-date
Set up alerts to notify you when new work in your
topic area is published.
Search alerts
Citation alerts
Author alerts
Table of contents alerts
Contact us:
(08) 9346 7296
Please make an appointment for longer queries
Karen Jones Vanessa Varis
Lucia Ravi
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