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
Searching the Web
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 an Interactive CINAHL tutorial at:
http://library.med.nyu.edu/tutorials/nursing/
- You can link to an interactive tutorial designed to show you the components
of a MEDLINE database search using the OVID Web Gateway at:
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/respub/guides/ovidtut/index.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/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html -
NYU Libraries How to Find an Article Tutorial
For further reading: Take a walk through a simple search in CINAHL via OVID
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