Literature Search - Overview

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Literature SearchSomkiat Asawaphureekorn

M.D., M.Sc. (Clinical Epidemiology)

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Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Srinagarind Hospital

Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.

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Before You Search

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Before You Search

• Know your resources

• Form your questions, search terms

• Form your search strategy

• Search syntax

• Record your search strategy & results

• Try all relevant databases

• Refine your search as required

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Before You SearchYour Question

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Before You SearchYour Question PICO

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Background Question?

Your Question PICO

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Background Question? Text bookYes

Your Question PICO

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Background Question? Text bookYes

Question Type

No

Your Question PICO

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Background Question? Text bookYes

Question Type

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Your Question

TherapyEtiology

DiagnosisPrognosis

etc.

PICO

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Background Question? Text bookYes

Question Type

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Your Question

Study Design

TherapyEtiology

DiagnosisPrognosis

etc.

PICO

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Background Question? Text bookYes

Question Type

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Your Question

Study Design

TherapyEtiology

DiagnosisPrognosis

etc.

RCTSystematic Review

Cohortetc.

PICO

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Before You Search

Background Question?

Identify the best available resource

Text bookYes

Question Type

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Your Question

Study Design

TherapyEtiology

DiagnosisPrognosis

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RCTSystematic Review

Cohortetc.

PICO

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Before You Search

Background Question?

Identify the best available resource

Text bookYes

Question Type

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Your Question

Study Design

TherapyEtiology

DiagnosisPrognosis

etc.

RCTSystematic Review

Cohortetc.

PICO

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General Search Strategy

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Define relevant, searchable terms

General Search Strategy

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Define relevant, searchable terms

General Search StrategyMeSH

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Define relevant, searchable terms

General Search Strategy

Define alternate terms

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Design search strategy

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Design search strategy

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AND OR

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MeSHEmTreeFree text

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Define relevant, searchable terms

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Define alternate terms

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Summarize & Appraise the evidence

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Define relevant, searchable terms

General Search Strategy

Define alternate terms

Design search strategy

Relevant results?

Apply the evidence

GOODSummarize & Appraise the evidence

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No

MeSHEmTreeFree text

AND OR

NOT

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Define relevant, searchable terms

General Search Strategy

Define alternate terms

Design search strategy

Relevant results?

Apply the evidence

GOODSummarize & Appraise the evidence

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No

Poor

MeSHEmTreeFree text

AND OR

NOT

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Bibliographic Databases

• PubMedhttp://pubmed.gov

• Scopus (SciVerse)http://www.scopus.com

• ISI Web of Science (Science Citation Index)http://isiknowledge.com

• LILACS (via “virtual health library”)http://regional.bvsalud.org

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Searching Systematic Reviews

• Cochrane reviews http://thecochranelibrary.org Search Cochrane reviews via PubMed

• AND cochrane database syst rev [journal]• AND (systematic [sb] OR meta-analysis [pt])• Caution when using “Limit” boxes in “Advance search”

• Non-Cochrane reviews (with comments) CRD databases (Centre for Reviews and Dissemination @ NHS)

http://www.crd.york.ac.uk

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Searching Ref. of the Ref.

• Scopus

• Science Citation Index

• Google Scholarhttp://scholar.google.com

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Free Academic Databases

• Google Scholarhttp://scholar.google.com

• Scirushttp://www.scirus.com

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Open Access Journals• Directory of open access journals

www.doaj.org

• Open access publishers BioMed Central

• www.biomedcentral.com PLoS - Public Library of Science

• www.plos.org Dove Medical Press

• www.dovepress.com Hindawi Publishing Corporation

• www.hindawi.com Medknow Publications

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www.doaj.org

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Open Access Publishers 1

• BioMed Central www.biomedcentral.com Year founded 2000 Based in U.K. An STM (Science, Technology and Medicine)

publisher Journals 219

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Open Access Publishers 2

• PLoS - Public Library of Science www.plos.org Year founded 2000 Based in San Francisco, U.S.A. Journals

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Open Access Publishers 3

• Dove Medical Press www.dovepress.com Year founded 2003 Based in U.K. Journals 114

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Open Access Publishers 4

• Hindawi Publishing Corporation www.hindawi.com Year founded 1997 Based in Cairo, Egypt Journals >300

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Open Access Publishers 5

• Medknow Publications www.medknow.com Year founded 1999 Based in Mumbi, India Journals >135

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PubMed Central

• PubMed free full-text archives

• Freely access with copyright protection

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Clinical Trials Database

• Cochrane Librarythecochranelibrary.org Include hand-search clinical trials

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Clinical Trials Registration• ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT12345678)

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov U.S. NIH, developed by NLM

• Current Controlled Trials (ISRCTN12345678) http://www.controlled-trials.com NHS, U.K., published by BioMed Central

• International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (WHO ICTRP) Search Portal http://www.who.int/ictrp/en/

• Thai Clinical Trials Registry (TCTR-1234-56789) http://www.clinicaltrials.in.th

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http://www.clinicaltrials.gov

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NCT

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http://www.controlled-trials.com

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http://www.clinicaltrials.in.th

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Clinical Trials Search Portal• International Clinical Trials Registry Platform

(WHO ICTRP) Search Portal A search tool, not a registration site Search across multiple clinical trials registration

• ClinicalTrials.gov• Current controlled trials• Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry• Brazilian, Chinese, Indian, Korean, Cuban, German,

Iranian, Japanese, Sri Lanka, Pan African, the Nethelands http://www.who.int/ictrp/en/ http://apps.who.int/trialsearch/

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http://www.who.int/ictrp/en/

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Thai Journals Databases

• Thai Index Medicus @ Chulahttp://library.md.chula.ac.th

• Thai Medical Index @ Sirirajhttp://www.medlib.si.mahidol.ac.th

• Thai-Journal Citation Index Centre (TCI)http://http://www.kmutt.ac.th/jif/public_html/

• Thai Theses Databasehttp://thesis.stks.or.th

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Search Exhaustively

• Electronic databases

• Printed journals, hand-search

• Unpublished articles

• Expert seeking

• Pharmaceutical companies data

• Grey literature (non-peer reviewed items)

• General web search engines google, yahoo, etc.

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Other Special Databases

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Special Databases

• CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing literature and Allied HeaLth)

http://www.cinahl.com

• PsycINFO http://www.apa.org/psycinfo/ APA, only Psychological abstracts (from 1800s)

• CTSNet (The Cardiothoracic Surgery Network) http://www.ctsnet.org/

• PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) http://www.pedro.org.au/

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Drugs & Chemical Databases

• TOXNET http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/ (can access via PubMed) Toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental

health, and toxic releases

• Micromedex www.micromedex.com A drug information system One of the most authoritative resource From Thomson

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Thesis Search

• NDLTD www.ndltd.org The Networked Digital Library of Theses and

Dissertations An international organization dedicated to promoting

the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations

Open access with PDF files

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Full text Databases• PubMed Central

www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov

• HighWire Presshighwire.stanford.edu

• Free Medical Journalswww.freemedicaljournals.com

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Reference Management Tool

• Zotero: http://www.zotero.org

• Need to run under Firefox (Firefox add-on)

• Produced by Center for History and New Media at George Mason

University

• Funded by United States Institute of Museum and Library

Services Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Knowledge & Wisdom

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Knowledge & Wisdom

Knowledge …is proud that he has learnt so much,

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Knowledge & Wisdom

Knowledge …is proud that he has learnt so much,

Wisdom …is humble that he knows no more.

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Knowledge & Wisdom

Knowledge …is proud that he has learnt so much,

Wisdom …is humble that he knows no more.

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Knowledge & Wisdom

Knowledge …is proud that he has learnt so much,

Wisdom …is humble that he knows no more.

The Task (1785) by

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Knowledge & Wisdom

Knowledge …is proud that he has learnt so much,

Wisdom …is humble that he knows no more.

The Task (1785) byWilliam Cowper (1731 - 1800)

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THANK YOU

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