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CASH: Library Skills
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Journal articles: What and Why?
• Academic publications published regularly containing articles
by academics and practitioners.
• Journals can be academic or practitioner focused.
• Why use them?-
• They provide current perspective
• Contain information that might not be available elsewhere
• Academically credible. Many undergo Peer Review process.
Finding a journal article on your reading list
For example:Coles, M. S., Makino, K. K. & Stanwood, N. L. (2011) Contraceptive experiences among adolescents who experience unintended birth. Contraception, 84 (6), 578-584.
How?Online Library http://library.brighton.ac.uk Electronic Journals Type the title of journal (not article) Click on the link (Make sure your article falls within the dates)
Finding a journal article from a database
To find relevant journal articles search in the health related databases. These are available from the Online Library http://library.brighton.ac.uk
Click on : Resources by Subject Health Professions Nursing and Midwifery.
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Databases...(2)Database Details
British Nursing Index Comprises of 220 elected nursing journals from 1982. No full text.
CINAHL with full text Nursing & allied health: 3,000 journals, 1 mil records, inc articles, health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conf proceedings, standards of practice, book chapters...
PubMed / Medline 5,000 journal titles, 17 mil records, going back to 1950. Medicine, nursing & allied health. Some full text where available.
The Cochrane Library Database containing reliable evidence about the effects of healthcare, including systematic reviews, clinical trials, controlled trials
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Databases...(2)Database Details
NHS Evidence Provides easy access to a comprehensive evidence base for clinicians, public health professionals, commissioners and service managers making decisions on treatments or use of resources – to improve health and patient care. Provides a portal to a variety of online resources.
PsycInfo 2500 journals, from 1800 onwards. Covers psychological aspects of many disciplines.
Science Direct Science Direct provides access to over 2000 journals published by Elsevier covering mainly science, technology and medicine, with some management and social sciences. Full-text access to subscribed titles from 1995 or later.
• What question are you trying to answer?– Break the question down into keywords
• What do you already know?– Is there anything you’ve already read you could use?
• What do you want to exclude?– Do you have a date range?
Firstly think about…
Example search…
Constructing a search strategy…
• Think about your keywords– Are there any other words you could use to describe them?
• Are you searching for an exact expression?– Putting an expression in (brackets) or “speech marks” will help
find these
• Use AND, OR, NOT– children AND teenagers – articles must have both these words– children OR teenagers – articles can have either word– children NOT teenagers – will only find the first word
Constructing a search strategy…
• Use truncation– By using * you can extend your results e.g. child* will find
child, children, childhood
• Use field searching– Databases let you search within the author, title, abstract,
journal name etc. This may help narrow your results
• Be flexible– If at first you don’t succeed re-examine your keywords!
Finding full-text…
Databases will often only give you an abstract or short description of an article. If there is no full-text link on the page then look for
By clicking on this you can check whether we hold an article electronically.
Other things to think about…
• Currency– databases let you limit your search by date, some lecturers
will only want you to include current materials
• Peer-reviewed– some databases let you search for peer-reviewed articles,
these have been reviewed by experts on that subject
• Types of articles– you may want to find case studies, qualitative or quantitative
research, literature reviews etc. you can add these as keywords to your search
– primary or secondary sources – databases find both, so be aware of this when searching
