South London and Maudsley NHS Trust 20021 Literature Searching for Research Lambeth Research Forum 14 th February 2002 Catherine Ebenezer Multidisciplinary.

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South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Literature Searching for Research Lambeth Research Forum 14 th February 2002 Catherine Ebenezer Multidisciplinary Library, Reay House

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Purposes of literature searching  Identify extent and quality of work already carried out in the subject area  Identify key contacts  Avoid duplication!

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Types of literature: 1 Primary literature  Preprints  Conference proceedings  Informally published reports (“grey literature”)  Journal articles

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Types of literature: 2 Secondary literature  Reviews  Books: edited collections  Books: monographs/surveys

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Types of literature: 3 More on “grey literature”…  Theses  Reports  Official publications (not Stationery Office)  Conference proceedings

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Sources for literature searching: 1 Databases of articles and books Bibliographic e.g. MEDLINE, PsycINFO etc. Full text e.g. PsycArticles, Cochrane Database Library catalogues (COPAC, British Library, South Thames Libraries etc.) Research databases e.g. National Research Register, MRC (UK), CRISP (USA)

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Sources for literature searching: 2 …not forgetting….  Handsearching of core journals  Reference lists/ Footnote chasing  Printed bibliographies  World Wide Web search engines (e.g. Google)  Picking colleagues’ brains (such as they are…)

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Characteristics of the literature Mental health literature is problematic :  “Poorly controlled”  Scattered across many different databases none is comprehensive all need to be looked at in a comprehensive search Brettle A J and Long A F (2001) Comparison of bibliographic databases for information on the rehabilitation of people with severe mental illness. Bull Med Libr Assoc 89(4)

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Bibliographic databases: 1 MEDLINE  journals indexed  Produced by National Library of Medicine (USA)  Available free at  European journals not particularly well covered  Mental health coverage not especially good  Strong on acute medical specialities

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Bibliographic databases: 2 Psychological Abstracts (PsycINFO, PsycLIT, ClinPsyc- clinical subset )  Produced by American Psychological Association  A “cash cow”—not available anywhere free, but short-term access via WWW can be purchased  Covers all aspects of psychology  Comprehensive but some US bias

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Bibliographic databases: 3 EMBASE Psychiatry  European commercial product  Comprehensive psychiatry coverage  Strong on pharmacology and drug therapy issues  Thesaurus terms very “old-fashioned”  First resort!

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Bibliographic databases: 4 CINAHL  Covers nursing, PAMs, health management  Recent records include references  US bias but increasingly strong coverage of UK and Australasian literature  Good for psychiatric nursing  Some journals very obscure

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Bibliographic databases: 5 AMED: Allied and Complementary Medicine  Produced in UK by British Library  Aims to complement MEDLINE  Best source of UK PAMs literature

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Bibliographic databases: 6 Cochrane Library  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews  NHS Economic Evaluations Database  NHS CRD Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness  Medical Editors’ Trials Amnesty  HTA Database

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Bibliographic databases: 7 Citation indexes  Identify a significant piece of published research  Find out who has cited it in later work  SciSearch  Social SciSearch (includes nursing)

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Bibliographic databases: 8 Others….  ChildData (child health and welfare)  ASSIA (applied social sciences)  caredata (social work)  ENB database (nursing)  HMIC (health management) See for these and more….

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Bibliographic databases: 9  BiblioSleep: sleep  HealthPromis: health promotion  PsycheMatters: psychotherapy  Aegis AIDS-HIV  NARIC: disability  PIE: mental health policy  BEI: education  ETOH : alcohol abuse  CHID : public health  ERIC: education  SPIN: science policy  JourLit/BookRev : psychoanalysis …more at … lots of web-accessible databases on specialist areas, e.g.:

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Citation styles: 1  Harvard style – social sciences Ebenezer, C M (2001) The trials of life: the work of a mental health librarian. Health Information and Libraries Journal 18(4)  Vancouver style – biomedicine Ebenezer C M. The trials of life: the work of a mental health librarian. Health Information and Libraries Journal 2001; 18(4) …more on citation styles at

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Citation styles: 2 Citing electronic sources Styles less established than for citing printed formats-- --need to include:  Bibliographic details (as applicable): author, title, etc.  URL  Date downloaded Ebenezer, C M (2001) From nether hell thy people save: BMA Library open day 12/09/2001. London-I At [17/01/2002].

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Research information: 1  Research in progress  Findings/outcomes  Research funding and opportunities

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Research information: 2  National Health Service R&D pages Information on all aspects of NHS research: includes National Research Register: ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by or of interest to the NHS Research Findings Electronic Register (ReFeR): findings of completed NHS research Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme monographs  R&D Info A digest of health-related funding and training opportunities

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Research information: 3  Current Controlled Trials: mRCT A register of randomised controlled trials currently in progress

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Research information: 4 Medical research charities  Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) Links to individual charities, funding guide  WISDOM database of biomedical research funding Information on 400+ funding schemes offered by UK organisations supporting biomedical research

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Research information: 5 Higher education 1 Research councils:  Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)  Medical Research Council (MRC ) NEST database: provides information on current research funded by the UK research councils:

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Research information: 6 Higher education 2 HERO research zone: Information on research opportunities and funding within UK higher education

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Further training: 1 Online resources  Literature searching for research (Bath)  Information retrieval skills for medicine (Leicester)  Resource Discovery Network online tutorials: psychology, social work, medicine, social policy, social research methods

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Further training: 2 NHS and academic libraries  Reay House library provides training in database searching or assistance with literature searches; group sessions can be organised  HealthFirst provides training in database searching or assistance with literature searches, basic and advanced internet searching  King’s College London health sciences libraries provides hands-on workshops on searching bibliographic databases and electronic journals

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Further training: 3 External training providers 1  Library Association runs a variety of courses on information searching in health care (formerly these were provided by the British Library)  BMA Library runs workshops on MEDLINE

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Further training: 4 External training providers 2 Systematic Reviews Training Unit (UCL) Offers training and short courses in systematic review methodology for health professionals NHS CRD Provide training in the use of the Cochrane Library for research coordinators, clinical audit and clinical governance staff, and librarians