June 1st Library Presentation for CCTS Summer Fellowship

1. COM-UHP/CCTS Summer Research Fellowship Program
June 1, 2015
Jamie Dwyer & Rebecca Raszewski

2. Session Overview
 Website Orientation
 Develop Research Topic
 Describe Information Sources
 Locate Articles in PubMed
 Awareness of RefWorks

3. Library Website Scavenger Hunt
1. Login to a computer:
Username: nnlmgmr
Password: 303user
2. Open a browser
3. Visit: https://pollev.com/jamiedwyer184

11. Research “Cycle”: Ideal
(1) Develop topic
(2) Locate resources
(3) Interpret
& Evaluate
information
(4) Apply information
& Cite sources

12. Research “Cycle”: Actual
Develop topic
Locate resources
Interpret &
Evaluate
information
Apply & Cite sources

13. Developing a Research Topic
• Interest (choose something you’ll enjoy researching!)
• Scope (breadth and depth of a topic)
• Time (pick something you can successfully address in the given time
constraints/due dates)
• Clarity (know what you’re looking for; refine/adjust as needed)
• Assignment (follow directions from your professor on topic & paper
requirements!)

14. Steps to Refining a Research Topic
1. Background Reading (For an overview of the
topic, this will help you realize the scope)
2. Narrow/Adapt Topic (Is there enough information
on your topic? Too little?)
3. Retrospective Research (Explore the topic in-
depth, for a historical perspective)
4. Contemporary Research (Look at current issues)
Adapted from CSU Libraries “Topic Selection Tips” by Naomi Lederer
http://lib.colostate.edu/howto/toptip.html

15. Research Topic Activity
 Complete step 2 (identify key concepts) on your
worksheet based on the following question:
Is the use of social media an effective method to
encourage high school and college students to
quit smoking?
https://pollev.com/jamiedwyer184

17. Research Topic Activity
 Complete section 3 (table) of the worksheet as you do
preliminary background research on your topic.
 Use the following as your concepts:
Social media – Quit smoking—high school/college
students
https://pollev.com/jamiedwyer184

22. Concept 1 Concept 2 (Concept 3)
Social media A
N
D
Quit smoking A
N
D
High school/
college students
OR
online
community
smoking
cessation
youth(s)
OR
internet tobacco cessation young adult(s)
OR
Facebook quitting smoking teenager(s)
OR
Twitter adolescent /-ce
OR
Sample table

23. Information Sources
 Citation: Information about a resource, often
including title, author, journal name, publication date,
page numbers, etc.
 Abstract: Summary of the article.
 Article: The full text source that a citation describes.
 Journal: Publishes multiple articles per issue.

24. Where to Search
 Citation Database: Searchable collection of citations to
various resources. Limited indexing. Some full text,
dependent on library subscriptions.
 PubMed, CINAHL, Academic Search Complete
 Search Engine: Tool to locate resources beyond
scholarly journals & books. Algorithms determine
search result relevancy. Users lack control.
 Google, Yahoo, Bing

25. Suggested Databases
 MEDLINE via PubMed
 CINAHL
 Cochrane Library
 Embase
 PsycINFO
 Scopus
 Web of Science

26. What is PubMed?
 Free journal citation database with more than
24 million references, including:
 MEDLINE® indexed journal citations & abstracts in
medical, health care, & preclinical sciences
 In-process & “Ahead of Print” citations
 Additional life sciences journals
 Online books
 National Center for Biotechnology Information,
National Library of Medicine®
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/pubmed.html

27. Accessing PubMed
www.PubMed.gov
Access from UIC library website to see full-text options.

28. Simple Search
 Enter search terms into search box
 Usually a long phrase is not helpful. Break up your
question into sections or key concepts.
 Consider using quotation marks for phrase-
searching (“health information literacy,”
“community health worker,” etc.)
…but use with caution (“falls prevention”
eliminates “prevention of falls” phrases)

29. Filters
 Narrow results by
purposefully applying filters
 Click on “Show additional filters” to
view more options.
 Click on “Customize” or “Custom
range...” to see more options for
Article types and Publication dates
 “Human” is not applied to an article
if the study setting is a clinic,
hospital, or similar. Species filter not
recommended in most cases.

30. Search Details Box
 Learn how PubMed
translated your search
 Click “See more” for a full
explanation.
 Use this feature to adjust
search terms and discover
MeSH terms.

31. MeSH Terms
 Consistent, controlled vocabulary used to index
MEDLINE citations
 Locate relevant articles, especially helpful when no
abstract is available.
 Combine with keywords to capture emerging
jargon not yet in MeSH.
 Search for MeSH terms in the MeSH database (shown)
 Search for articles using MeSH terms in the PubMed database

32. Search Tools: Boolean Basics
depression exercise
OR
Depression OR ExerciseDepression AND Exercise
AND
depression exercise
Depression NOT Exercise
NOT
depression exercise
• Searching with AND combines terms. It gives you results that satisfy both
search terms (only where the two overlap). Some databases use + for AND.
• Searching with OR “means more”! It gives you everything available for each
term, including when they overlap. Some databases use | for OR.
• Searching with NOT excludes an entire term, including any overlap between
terms. Some databases use – for NOT.

33. Advanced Search
 Controlled vocabulary
 Refine searches
 Find MeSH terms for:
 HPV education
 Social media
 HPV immunization
View Search History
Combine Searches

34. Searching PubMed
Your turn!
1. Locate MeSH terms for the sample search. Combine
them with keywords already on your worksheet
(table). As you search, add any filters you think are
relevant to #4.
2. Pair up. Compare MeSH terms & search strategies.
Write down one of your searches (#5 on the
worksheet).

35. My NCBI
 Account for saving searches and collections of articles
(Free!)

36. Citation Management w/RefWorks
 Citation Management Software
 Organize/share citations
 Link to full text
 Create bibliographies
 Pick your citation style
 Register with UIC email
RefWorks Guide:
http://researchguides.uic.edu/refworks

37. Moving Citations from PubMed to RefWorks
1. Mark the records you wish to export.
2. From Send to, select Clipboard then Add to Clipboard button.
3. In the Clipboard, select Send To.
4. Select Citation Manager then the Create File button.
5. This will download as a file onto your computer.
6. Log in to RefWorks.
7. Select References then Import from the toolbar.
8. Select NLM PubMed as the data source and PubMed as the
database.
9. You may try one of two ways to get the file into RefWorks:
1. Copy and paste the text into the box into the From Text section.
2. Browse to select the file on your computer.
10. Select which folder you would like to move the citations.
11. Click Import.

38. Thank You
Jamie Dwyer
jamied@uic.edu
Rebecca Raszewski
raszewr1@uic.edu