1. CONDUCTING INTERNET-BASED LITERATURE SEARCH: PART 2
Dr. Peter Olutunde Onifade
Consultant Psychiatrist,
Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta
Presentation at the lecture organized by Research Management Committee,
2nd September 2015

2. OUTLINE Be familiar with any engine you intend to use Google
Google scholar
Pubmed
Hinari
Check out others at your convenient time

3. FAMILIARITY WITH AN ENGINE
All search engines speak the same language but different dialect. So to get optimum results from a particular engine, you need to be familiar with its dialect, not just the general language
Also a search engine may some special features that are not available in other engines; so be familiar with its features.
Is there a better way to be familiar with an engine than what the creators document about it?
Let’s go engine by engine.

4. www.google.com: simple search page
So blank and simple a page, don’t you think?
No manual, nothing! Or so it appears at first.
The only Google interface most of us ever saw.

5. www.google.com setting: lower right menu
Search setting, help, advanced search

6. www.support.google.com Support page for all Google products.
Note the icon for search engine and click on it

7. Menu of Google search engine’s help
You would be interested in the “filter and refine your results” submenu.

8. Videos on simple google search
You can play the videos right away or download them for later viewing.

9. Start with basic

10. Google search operators: to me, not necessary

11.
To me, the only interface for Google search that a researcher should visit
Note the query builders (especially, “all of these words”, this exact word or phrase”, “terms appearing”)

12. Google scholar: About
Click on the About Google scholar at the left lower corner,

13. Google scholar: About 2
Explore all the menu items on the About Google scholar page.

14. https://scholar.google.com Back to home page
Note the “sign in” at the top right corner.
Also note the top menu items – my library, my citations, Alerts, Metrics and settings
Without first signing in, you can not access any of the top menu items, save “setting” and “metrics”

15. Google scholar setting
Note the different settings you can configure.
Remember to save when done

16. Google scholar Metrics
Just informing you ratings of journals
Note that the highest ranking journal is Nature

17. Google scholar My library
Your must sign in to google scholar to access My Library
You need to have a gmail account to do this.
My Library is a catalogue of ALL the papers you have published PLUS all the papers you cited in ALL your publications

18. Google scholar My Citations
My Citations is a catalogue of ALL the papers you have published

19. Google scholar Cited by me
Cited by me is a catalogue of ALL the papers you have ever cited

20. Ways to update My Library
Manually
Auto Update by Google scholar

21. Only one way to update Cited by me

22. Google scholar alert Sends email notification when new article
meeting the query is published

23. Google scholar alert – input the query

24. Google scholar alert – update / create

25. Google scholar simple search interface – note the circled little downward arrow to launch the advanced interface

26. Google scholar Advanced search interface

27. PubMed: home page / simple search engine

28. PubMed: advanced search query builder – note the video tutorial

29. Hinari: home page

30. Hinari: Essential exploration

31. Hinari Basic course

32. Hinari: Research4Life training portal

33. Hinari: reference manager tutorial

34. Hinari login: You institutional username and password – see the librarian

35. Hinari: Default page after login

36. Other search engines
Check out other search engines of interest to you at your convenient time

37. Q & A
END OF PART 2 THANKS