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Effective Search Strategies

Five Strategies for Effective Searching. Develop a search strategyUse the vocabulary appropriatelyLook at the bibliographies of the relevant articlesFind out who has cited the relevant articles and determine their relevancy to your projectAsk a librarian!. Strategy

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Effective Search Strategies

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    1. Effective Search Strategies Helena VonVille June 15, 2007

    3. Strategy #1 Develop a Search Strategy Write out your search strategy Combination of terms and concepts Three concepts generally works the best Not a hard and fast rule Search broadly for each concept, and narrow by combining terms 

    4. Conceptualize Search Think about synonyms or like terms to describe the concepts HIV/AIDS HIV or AIDS or Human Immunodeficiency Virus or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Disease transmission Disease transmission or vertical transmission or infection control Pregnancy Pregnancy or pregnancy outcomes or postpartum or delivery or childbirth or labor or delivery or (labor and delivery)

    5. How OR Works

    6. How AND Works

    7. How AND Works

    8. Strategy #2 Use the Appropriate Vocabulary MeSH: Medical Subject Headings Used by Medline & PubMed CINAHL Thesaurus Ovid makes it easy to map terms

    9. Strategy #3 Use Bibliographies of Relevant Articles Do you see anything new?

    10. Strategy #4 Determine who has cited relevant articles Use Scopus or Web of Science (from the Library databases page) to determine who has cited your article

    11. Scopus Results 20 other articles have cited these recommendations

    12. Strategy #5 Questions? Contact Helena VonVille at Helena.M.VonVille@uth.tmc.edu or 713-500-9131 OR HAM-TMC Library 713.799.7161 http://resource.library.tmc.edu/reference/reference.cfm

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