1. DISCOVERY A new way to search for articles and other information
DISCOVERY makes it possible to search
all the library databases including our catalog

2. Go to our Team page: www.cchosp.com/team>Health Care Library>
Discovery Tool to search all databases at once
Next is a view of the interface of DISCOVERY

3. Let’s do a search Let As you can see the databases aren’t visible.
If you want to see what they are, go to Databases for Literature Searching. Our Library catalog and electronic books are also included.
Let’s do a search
Let

4. Now we click on search! Search example: Diabetes, Diet and Exercise.
We put the following limits on the search: Linked Full Text, Peer Reviewed, English Language and Published Date.
Now we click on search!

6. There is more to DISCOVERY than this though….
As you can see we got 374 citations. They all have our limits and are full text.
Some are exactly what we were looking for, but many include aspects that we don’t need.
You can browse through the articles and see if you find enough articles that support your search.
You can also exclude what you don’t want like this:
There is more to DISCOVERY than this though….
Look at the search screen on the next slide and you will find these “widgets”- Rehabilitation Reference Center, and PubMed. The same search has already been performed on those databases.
Let’s have a look!

7. Click on “Search” under Rehabilitation Reference Center
Click on “Search” under Rehabilitation Reference Center. Can you use any of those citations?

8. Likewise, click on search under Nursing@Ovid

9. PubMed is another option
PubMed is another option. You may find some articles pertinent to you search here. However, PubMed is best to search by itself and has few full-text articles.

10. You can also search the library catalog from Discovery.
Remember to search broad categories – for Chicken Pox, search Pediatrics.

11. A search for Diabetes gives you this result from the Catalog:
14 hits. On this page 2 DVDs and one paperbook

12. Surgical instruments or just instruments give you electronic books –
EB before the call number.

13. In the dark blue bar at the top of the search page
There’s more:
In the dark blue bar at the top of the search page
you will find more useful information.
Publications: Here you can get a list of journals, some of which have full text articles
Preferences: Here you can save all limits that you usually would apply to a search
Ask-A-Librarian: us a question, request an article or book, or ask us anything related to the library.

14. As always, we are here to help
We hope that searching this way will give you much more information and many more articles than just searching one single database at a time.
Happy Searching
As always, we are here to help
should you need it.
Inger and Ginny
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