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• Module One:

  • Beginner's Research Guide

    • Searching Steps

    • Locating Books

    • Locating Article Citations

    • Finding Journals

    • Database Tutorials

• Module Two

  • Research Utilization and Evidence-Based Practice

    • publication types

    • search strategies

    • limit your search

    • specialized databases

    • evidence-based journals

    • clinical guidelines

    • web sites

• Module Three

  • Searching the Web

    • sites and meta sites

    • free vs. fee-based sites

    • search engines

    • web directories

    • the invisible web

    • consumer health info

    • evaluating the web

• Getting Help

Beginner's Research Guide | database tutorials

You have been introduced to the concepts of thinking about what you are looking for, forming a research question, and choosing to search either library catalogs for books or indexes (databases) for finding articles by topic. More specific help for database searching is found at the following tutorials:

• You can link to Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Interactive PubMed Tutorial at:
  http://www.mssm.edu/library/tutorials/pubmed.html
• You can link to an online tutorial for the National Library of Medicine's PUBMED version of MEDLINE at:
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial/
• A simple search in CINAHL®
  A simple search in CINAHL® via the Ovid web gateway. This 8 1/2 minute movie demonstrates a literature search in the CINAHL® database, highlighting mapping, combining, exploding, focusing, limits, and navigating to options for full text of articles in the NYU virtual library space. (Movie size is 600 X 400 approx.; user might be prompted to enable javascript and/or download Flash movie viewer; this movie includes audio).
• CINAHLPlus Ebsco Tutorial from the University of Florida
  http://www.hscl.ufl.edu/help/CINAHL/tutorials.htm Click on “Launch Tutorial 2”: Single Subject Heading with Subheading
  
  

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