1 / 22

Journal article index as a database

Journal article index as a database. Information representing an article: its physical description and its content Search interface: organized means for user to retrieve desired articles. Physical description of article. Author Article title Journal title Volume Issue/number

gerik
Download Presentation

Journal article index as a database

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Journal article index as a database Information representing an article: its physical description and its content Search interface: organized means for user to retrieve desired articles

  2. Physical description of article Author Article title Journal title Volume Issue/number Paging

  3. Content description : Subject Headings Subject headings are assigned by librarians and subject specialists. The words in a subject heading might not appear in the physical description categories (i.e. title). Items on the same subject are grouped together.

  4. Content description : KeywordsWhen you put in a keyword, the computer matches it exactly in the records. Keyword Records

  5. KeywordSelection • Book record: O’Lynn, Chad E. and Tranbarger, Russell E., editors. Men in nursing : history, challenges, and opportunities. New York: Springer, c2007. [Subject headings:] Nursing, Male nurses. • Journal article record: Tracey, C. and Nicholl, H. “The multifaceted influence of gender in career progress in nursing.” Journal of Nursing Management 2007 Oct; 15(7): 677-82. [Subject headings:] Nurses, Male, Staff Nurses, Career Mobility.

  6. Physical and content description categories = Fields

  7. Examples of fields. Author = Tracey, C., Nicholl, H., O’Lynn, Chad E., Tranbarger, Russell E. Title = Men in nursing: history, challenges, and opportunities, The multifaceted influence of gender in career progress in nursing. Subject heading = Nursing, Male nurses, Nurses, male, Career mobility, Staff nurses. Keyword= nursing, men, mutlifaceted, Tracey, Management, challenges, journal, Chad, gender

  8. Fields = Record (Citation)

  9. Database AUTHORS TITLES DATES SUBJECT HDGS JRNL TITLES FIELD NAMES

  10. Search Engines YOU Search strategy AUTHORS TITLES DATES SUBJECT HDGS JRNL TITLES FIELD NAMES Search results Database TI Search interface KWAUJNtiau

  11. Search Strategy Development • Overview: experience, textbook, skimming research articles. • State question in conversational English. • Make a list of specific concepts from full statement. • Rank concepts by importance. • Show relationships between concepts by using Boolean operators (and, or, not).

  12. Loneliness and adolescence adolescence loneliness loneliness adolescence

  13. Adolescents or teenagers adolescents teenagers Adolescents teenagers

  14. Evidence based nursing practice Definition: “the practice of nursing in which the nurse makes clinical decisions on the basis of the best available, current research evidence, their own clinical expertise, and the needs and preferences of the patient” Evidence-based nursing. (2006). Mosby’s Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions (7th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby.

  15. Best available, current research evidence • Primary source • Peer reviewed (scholarly) journal article

  16. Primary sources • Source originating from a person who witnessed an event, created an artwork, or conducted a research study Examples: • Artifacts • Diaries or autobiographies • Research reports (journal article)

  17. Secondary sources • Work that interprets or analyzes an event or phenomenon Examples: • Critical review of novel, short story, poem • Systematic review (analysis of research reports)

  18. Peer reviewed journal articles • Critical review of article before publication by panel of subject experts • Recommendations for revision sent to author • Following incorporation of recommendations, article published Benefit to reader: article includes expertise of author and scholars who reviewed content

  19. Identifying peer reviewed journals • Look for lengthy editorial panel in print issue • Look at instructions for authors in either print issue or on journal website • Search journal title in Ulrich’s Periodical Directory, a University Libraries database

  20. Search strategy using PICO question structure P = Population (the population you intend to study) I = Intervention (the drug or therapy that is intervening) C = Comparison (comparing the intervention with another drug, therapy, or placebo) O = Outcome (did the intervention provide relief?)

  21. PICO question example • Does exercise reduce obesity in children? Search terms: exercise obesity children

  22. Search Interfaces--Common Points Area to enter concepts Specify fields to be searched Use Boolean operators Limiting by year, publication format, language Display results

More Related