Search Strategies for a Successful Literature Review Presented by Jamie Saragossi –January 2017

Goals for next 60 minutes Library business How to access our resources Creating the Question Selecting the Database Developing your strategy Live demo How to follow up

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Accessing our databases

Searching for eBooks & eJournals Start at the library’s homepage Click on Find eJournals & eBooks A-Z Search for your specific title

PICO: Creating an answerable question Identify the topic or problem that you’re going to investigate with your literature review. Often helps to translate into search when put in PICO format. P – Patient or Population I – Intervention C – Comparison or Control O – Outcome

Research Databases Database subscriptions supplied by Stony brook University are in the hundreds. To conduct a thorough literature review, use at least 3. Better to start with broader databases and then narrow so you’re not missing essentials. (suggested resources) PubMed (casts a wide net) –mostly biomedical literature Use MESH searching to locate specific relevant terms Filters can be applied to narrow by article type/study design, age, year etc. Scopus (casts a wide net) - includes health sciences and social sciences keyword searching, more results but perhaps less specific Easy linking for reference and citation searching Cochrane Library – systematic reviews in health care.

Developing your Strategy Your literature review should be thorough and exhaustive. Consider synonyms for each of your terms Addiction = dependence, substance abuse Avoid Acronyms Spell out your terms, avoid jargon. Use Controlled Vocabularies Databases’ preferred terminology for a concept. Easy way to organize and retrieve articles. PubMed – MeSH Not EVERY database has a controlled vocabulary.

Combining Search Terms BOOLEAN Connect unique terms with “AND” Addiction AND adolescents Connect similar terms/synonyms with “OR”. (Addiction OR substance abuse) AND (adolescents OR teenagers) Truncation To include variations on a root word many databases provide advance search options. Addict* Would include results for addiction, addictive etc.

Systematic Reviews “Systematic reviews focus on peer-reviewed publications about a specific health problem and use rigorous, standardized methods for selecting and assessing articles. A systematic review may or may not include a meta-analysis, which is a quantitative summary of the results.” Last, J. M. (2001) A Dictionary of Epidemiology. Fourth Edition. Oxford University Press Systematic Reviews are research projects that can take up to 1 year to complete. If you are interested in conducting a systematic review; consult http://guides.library.stonybrook.edu/sysrev

Managing your References Citation Management http://guides.library.stonybrook.edu/citations-and-plagiarism-guides Includes NIH Public Access Policy compliance Endnote http://guides.library.stonybrook.edu/endnotehs Tutorials, consultations and workshops available to assist with installation and use For additional help Check for library workshops http://library.stonybrook.edu/events/

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