1. How to search effectively: database searching and RefWorks

2. Learning objectives Identify relevant subject databases
Develop an effective search strategy
Search for journal articles using those databases
Manage your references

3. How many words or phrases can you find to describe this bottle of water?

4. Truncation and phrase searching
The search process
Identify the key concepts
Success of search dependent on keywords
Creative thinking on initial keywords to think of related or alternative terms
Use thesauri, dictionaries, index or content pages from relevant books
Truncation and phrase searching

5. Identify key concepts
What are the methods and challenges of communicating with older people living with dementia?

6. Find synonyms
Communication
Older people
Dementia

7. Communication Older people Dementia Communicat* OR “Older people”
Interpersonal
Elderly
Alzheimer*
Conversation*
Geriatric
“Cognitive impair*”
Dialogue
Age*
“Cognition disorder”
Speak*
“Senior citizen*”
“Brain disease”
Describe truncation and speech marks, explain why etc. Also point out the ORs and explain on next slide

8. OR search
Communicat*
Conversation*
interpersonal

9. “older people” age* geriatric
OR search
“older people”
age*
geriatric

10. OR search
dementia
“cognitive impair*”
Alzheimer*

11. AND search “older people” OR geriatric OR age*
Dementia OR Alzheimer* OR “cognitive impair*”
communicat* OR interpersonal OR conversation*
Only those articles which match all criteria will be returned.

12. Constructing your search
(communicat* OR interpersonal OR conversation*)
AND
(“older people” OR geriatric OR age*)
(dementia OR Alzheimer* OR “cognitive impair*”)

13. Where to search:

14. Too many results? Too few results?

15. Accessing articles

16. RefWorks demo
What is it?
Why use it?
How to use it?

17. Skills for the workplace
At university:
How to search effectively and manage references
In the workplace:
Identifying healthcare information sources
Learning the skills to support your evidence-based profession
Finding and evaluating evidence (data, literature)

18. Other workshops How to make notes from reading or listening
How to plan your writing
How to reference and avoid plagiarism
How to put your reading into your writing
How to get started with critical writing
How to improve your critical writing
How to stand up and be heard

19. Academic skills workshops
Further help
Library online workbooks
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Academic skills workshops
Study skills webpages