Locating Psychiatric Literature

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Locating Psychiatric Literature

Today’s Topics

Four Bibliographic Databases Relevant to Psychiatry

Looking for a Specific Journal?Where is it Indexed?

Number of Psychiatric Journals Indexed in PsycLit*, Embase, Biosis, and MEDLINE

Comparison MEDLINE/PsycINFO

Search Techniques

Creating a Search

Creating a Search Statement

Identify synonyms/related concepts.

Boolean Operators

Adjacency Operator

Controlled Vocabulary (Index, Thesaurus, Subject Headings, MeSH …)

Index vs Keyword In a Nutshell…

Exploding - you won’t need this suit when you Explode MeSH Terms

Subheadings (MeSH Only)

Truncation in OVID

Wildcards in OVID

Postqualification:A handy shortcut for modifying a search statement

Searching for Numbers

Narrowing Search Results

Broadening Search Results

Crossing Database Boundaries

Evidence-Based Medicine Databases

Searching Best Evidence, Cochrane

Sources of EBM Hedges

Databases for Other Types of Searches (all available at Pitt)

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Author: Barbara Folb

Email: folb+@pitt.edu

Home Page: http://www.pitt.edu/~folb/residents/

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