1. “In the last few years, we’ve moved from an information-scarce economy to one driven by an information glut. According to Eric Schmidt of Google, every two days now the human race creates as much information as we did from the dawn of civilisation until That’s about five exobytes of data a day, for those of you keeping score. The challenge becomes, not finding that scarce plant growing in the desert, but finding a specific plant growing in a jungle. We are going to need help navigating that information to find the thing we actually need.”
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming

2. Elizabeth Suelzer, MLIS User education & reference librarian
Information overload: Harnessing library resources in the Information Age
Elizabeth Suelzer, MLIS User education & reference librarian

3. Objectives Identify challenges to finding good information.
Learn how to more effectively use information resources.
Refresh your PubMed search skills
Discuss strategies for organizing information sources

4. Finding good information
The challenge becomes, not finding that scarce plant growing in the desert, but finding a specific plant growing in a jungle.

5. Over 1,000,000 articles are added to PubMed each year making it a challenge to stay current with scholarly literature.
There are nearly 900,000 articles being added to PubMed

6. The scientific publishing model looks a lot like digital streaming
The scientific publishing model looks a lot like digital streaming. Getting comprehensive collections means subscribing to many different resources.

8. Books
Journals
Databases
Citation Managers

9. Books Characteristics
Primary & secondary sources of information
Published infrequently
Undergo an editing process
MCW Libraries places priority on electronic books
Searching for books – library catalog vs. publisher’s website

10. Search our library catalog.

11. Broad keyword searching may turn up interesting results
Broad keyword searching may turn up interesting results. Use specific terms for better results.
Broad searches aren’t preferred. Books are sorted by relevance, and one factor is the number of libraries who own an item. Most libraries are not medical libraries, so you will see more popular literature.

12. Exact title searching works well when you are looking for specific books.
Search by exact title is preferred if you are looking for a known item.
Find direct links to ebooks (these work off campus)
Find call numbers for print books.

13. If you don’t see “Held by: MCW Libraries,” we don’t own the item.
Our catalog searches within MCW Libraries’ collection of books, and library collections from around the world.
If you don’t see “Held by: MCW Libraries,” we don’t own the item.
Our library catalog displays books in our collection and beyond. Our catalog tries to match you with something, anything, but it also shows books that aren’t owned by us. The first items on the list have authors with the name harry or potter.

14. Use Library on Request to get access to books and articles that aren’t owned by the library.
Our library catalog displays books in our collection and beyond. Our catalog tries to match you with something, anything, but it also shows books that aren’t owned by us. The first items on the list have authors with the name harry or potter.
You can see who owns the book and you can request the item through our Library on Request service.

15. When searching the library catalog, you are searching the tables of contents and subject headings, not the full text.

16. Go directly to the publisher’s platform to search within the full text of the books.
When I search for books at the publisher’s website, I can search the entire full text of the book.

17. Electronic book collections
AccessMedicine
AccessEmergency Medicine
AccessPediatrics
AccessPharmacy
AccessSurgery

19. Books
Journals
Databases
Citation Managers

20. Journals Characteristics Print no longer received
Primary & secondary sources of information
Published on a schedule
Often peer reviewed
Print no longer received
Searching for journal titles – E- Journals List vs. BrowZine
Articles in journals can have primary information from original research, or they can have secondary information in the form of review articles.
Journals are published more frequently than books, so the information is more current.
Often they are peer reviewed. But in the age of open access publishing, it’s getting harder to determine this.
We no longer receive print journals.
Two ways to look for journal titles.

22. Use the E-Journals list to see if we have a subscription to a journal, to find out the subscription coverage, and to link to our access to the journal.
The classic list show if we own a title, the years that we have access to it, and a link to the journals website.

23. Browzine Search by title or subject Browse by subject
Create a personal bookshelf
Mobile app
Articles in journals can have primary information from original research, or they can have secondary information in the form of review articles.
Journals are published more frequently than books, so the information is more current.
Often they are peer reviewed. But in the age of open access publishing, it’s getting harder to determine this.
We no longer receive print journals.
Two ways to look for journal titles.

25. Browse the most recent tables of contents.

27. Browse by subject category.

28. Sort by Scimago journal rank.

29. Create personalized bookshelves
Create personalized bookshelves. View on your mobile device with the BrowZine app.

30. Books
Journals
Databases
Citation Managers

31. Databases Characteristics
Index citations of articles, books proceedings, theses, etc
Often they do not contain the full text of items
Vary in scope and coverage
Articles in journals can have primary information from original research, or they can have secondary information in the form of review articles.
Journals are published more frequently than books, so the information is more current.
Often they are peer reviewed. But in the age of open access publishing, it’s getting harder to determine this.
We no longer receive print journals.
Two ways to look for journal titles.

32.
Each database on the list has its own scope and coverage. There isn’t the possibility of having a single search.

33. Top Picks PubMed LinkOut & Ovid MEDLINE
Two vehicles for searching the contents of MEDLINE. Focus on biomedical literature. Indexes articles.
AccessMedicine & ClinicalKey
Publisher websites. Indexes articles, books, multimedia.
Scopus & Web of Science
Indexes articles, proceedings, abstracts, etc. Broader in scope, covers most sciences
UpToDate
Point of care resource
Cochrane Library
Contains systematic reviews
CINAHL
Focus on nursing and allied health. Indexes articles, guidelines and books.

34. Pubmed
Developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), PubMed is the search system for the MEDLINE database.
PubMed covers medicine, nursing, dentistry, health services research, the basic sciences, and more.
It has 25+ million citations from journals.
PubMed includes all the content indexed for MEDLINE, plus newer references that haven’t yet been assigned Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
Use the link to PubMed on the MCW Libraries website. It contains links to full-text journal articles accessible to MCW.

35. Use Advanced searching to construct your search.

37. Scroll down to see the Search Details
Scroll down to see the Search Details. These only appear if you sort by Most Recent.

39. Best Match sorting puts the most relevant articles at the top of your list.

40. Use filters to narrow down your search results.

41. MeSH: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/68003327

42. Connect to MCW Libraries journal subscriptions with the Get It buttons.

43. Create alerts to save this search and to get updates from PubMed.

45. Create My Bibliography
My NCBI / PubMed
Save searches
Create custom filters
View activity
Create My Bibliography
My NCBI:

46. Books
Journals
Databases
Citation Managers

47. Citation managers Characteristics RefWorks access to end August 2018
Save references
Organize references
Share references
Cite references in Word
RefWorks access to end August 2018

48. Citation managers Zotero Mendeley EndNote

49. recap Identify challenges to finding good information.
Learn how to more effectively use information resources.
Refresh your PubMed search skills
Discuss strategies for organizing information sources

50. Questions?
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