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When looking for health and medicine research it is very easy to stick to the well known databases. However, they don't always cover research from all countries, so if you want search in a more diverse range of databases here are some others you could try: Global Index Medicus "The Global Index Medicus (GIM) provides worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries. The main objective is to increase the visibility and usability of this important set of resources. The material is collated and aggregated by WHO Regional Office Libraries on a central search platform allowing retrieval of bibliographical and full text information." African Journals Online "African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is an online service to provide access to African-published research, and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship." SciELO Citation Index "Provides scholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, and...

PubMed recently introduced a new search interface. It's pretty similar to the old interface, so should be fairly simple to pick up. If you'd like more information and tutorials on the new interface then take a look at the PubMed Online Training Page . Below are a few tips you might find useful. How does PubMed do a keyword search? Even if you use PubMed a lot you may not realise how it is searching, as it automatically adds keyword variations and maps your keywords to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). If you want to see exactly what search PubMed has conducted, based on the words you typed in, then you can now do this under the Advanced Search option.  Conduct your search: This will take you directly to the results page: From the results page click on the ADVANCED option just under the search box. Once on the Advanced page scroll down to your search history and click on the Details Arrow: Now you can see exactly what PubMed searched on when inputt...

by: Keith Nockels Academic Librarian Many research funders require you to publish the work they fund as an open access article (check  SHERPA/JULIET  to see if your funder does). Open access articles are freely available to all readers, with no need for a subscription or payment. This makes your work more widely available, and may increase its citation count. In the traditional publishing model, the reader pays a subscription, or a fee to download an individual article. In the open access model, the reader pays nothing. To discuss how open access affects you as an author, and whether you will need to pay a fee, contact us for advice . Created by Adrienne Yancey for opensource.com https://flic.kr/p/9LBN2U There are many reputable open access publishers, and many reputable “traditional” publishers offer an open access option.  But publishing has a bad side too. There are publishers who charge a fee, promise great things, and deliver little. Some of them soli...

Over the last few months we've gained access to a number of new resources that might be useful to researchers, so here's a round-up for you: BenchSci Built by a team of scientists, BenchSci was developed with one thing in mind: to quickly and easily identify published data that support the use of antibodies . For more information about BenchSci:  https://blog.benchsci.com/7-features-to-find-antibodies Learn how to use BenchSci with this short video:  https://youtu.be/EFaDwTtqlv4 Campbell Collaboration Online Library The Campbell Collaboration Online Library (Campbell Library) contains the full text of published systematic reviews and protocols in  Crime and Justice  Disability  Education  International Development   Knowledge Translation and Implementation   Nutrition  Social Welfare  There is also a series of research methods papers. CINAHL CINAHL indexes more than 5000 journals in nursing, m...

There are many PhD students and researchers within the University who are undertaking research in the form of a systematic review, particularly within medicine, health and psychology. We wanted to highlight the stages of a systematic review where the Library Research Services Team can provide help and support.  We can advise on any of the stages in red and with reference management. What is a systematic review? A systematic review is a type of literature review that attempts to find all published and unpublished material on a specific research question. The studies found are then appraised against specific eligibility criteria. Data is extracted and synthesized from the eligible studies to produce a summary of evidence from the relevant research. Scoping Search To identify existing systematic reviews in the research area. To check the scope of the research available and help inform the research question. To help find appropriate databases, keywords and subject terms ...

Following on from our 'Making research information come to you' session we're rounding up some guides and videos on how to set-up search alerts from various resources: Web of Science Written instructions for saving search history and setting up search alerts . You can also set-up author alerts and citation alerts. Note: Search alerts can only be set-up using the Web of Science Core Collection. They do not work is you are searching All Databases. Scopus Written instructions for creating search, author and citation alerts in Scopus. PubMed Written instructions on setting up search alerts in PubMed.   Medline Written instructions for creating and saving search alerts in Ovid Medline. Online tutorial on using AutoAlerts in Ovid Medline. PsycINFO (via EbscoHost) IEEE Explore Written instructions on saving searches and creating search alerts (PDF) .

If you can't make it along to one of our training sessions, here are some resources you might find useful: Planning your literature search Conducting your literature search Tutorial and guides for scientific literature databases: All Sciences Web of Science https://www.brainshark.com/thomsonscientific/searchtipswok5_v2 Scopus http://help.scopus.com/Content/tutorials/sc_menu.html Chemistry Reaxys http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/reaxys/training-and-support#guides-and-manuals SciFinder http://www.cas.org/training/scifinder Computer Science & Engineering IEEE/IET Digital Library (IEEE Xplore) http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/subscriptions/clientservices/training.html Engineering Village http://www.ei.org/trainingpresentations Geology GeoRef via Geoscience World http://www.geoscienceworld.org/help/ http://youtu.be/s04R0O0Ex9U Mathematics MathSciNet http://www.maths...