CVM Summer Scholar's Research
Program
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Research Made Easy: Discover the
Library!
Andrea L. Dinkelman, Assistant Professor
Science & Technology Librarian for the College of Veterinary Medicine and
the Department of Animal Science
2280 Veterinary Medical Library
& 152 Parks Library
Email: adinkelm@iastate.edu
Homepage: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~adinkelm/homepage.html
Goal of this session:
Provide an overview
of the major literature databases useful in veterinary medicine and life sciences/biomedical
research.
ISU Veterinary
Medical Library
CVM Homepage (http://www.vetmed.iastate.edu/)
--> Quick Links --> Veterinary
Medical Library (http://www.lib.iastate.edu/services1/branch/vet_links.html)
ISU
Library (http://www.lib.iastate.edu/) --> Service Areas --> Branch
Facilities --> Veterinary
Medical Library
Off-Campus Access
Set
your Library pin# - Access electronic journals and databases off-campus;
all you need is your ISU ID number and a Library pin number!
I.
MEDLINE database
- Produced by the National Library
of Medicine
- Indexes the health sciences
and life sciences literature. Also indexes approximately 101 veterinary
medicine journals.
II. PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?otool=usiaslib
- Freely available version of
MEDLINE
- Access PubMed via the Veterinary
Medical Library homepage. This link is enabled with the"Get it@ISU"
button.The tool provides a direct link from a database citation to the
full text of the article (if available). You will see small "Get
it@ISU" buttons in most of the Library's major databases. After
clicking on this button, another window will open. If the Library has
electronic access to the full-text, there will be a direct link to the
article. If full-text is not available, click on the link to the ISU Library
Catalog to determine whether the item is available in print. If neither
the full-text or print is available, click on the link to request the
item from Interlibrary Loan.
III. Using PubMed
- For additional information:
- Search Tips
- Recommend using Boolean
operators, AND, OR, NOT. Must be in capital letters!
- Sample Search: diabetes
AND (cats OR dogs)
- Click on author
name for "AbstractPlus" view.
- Publisher-provided
links to full-text and "Get it@ISU"
- Remember to identify
synonyms for the concepts in your search statement.
- For example, (horses
OR equine OR foals) AND (toxicity OR poisoning) AND (pesticides
OR cholinesterase inhibitor) retrieves 150 records!
- horses AND toxicity
AND pesticides retrieves 59 records!
- Limits Tab and Field Tags
- Can limit a search by
various parameters, e.g. dates, language, etc.
- Field tags can be very
useful. For example,
- iowa state university
[AD] AND veterinary medicine
- Complete list of tags
available in the "Help" document. Search "tags"
->Search Field Descriptions and Tags
- Affiliation tag
[AD]; Journal title [TA]; Unique Identifier [PMID]
- MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
- controlled vocabulary
terms that are assigned by indexers. Change to "Citation"
view to see the MeSH terms.
- Other Features
- Journals Database: locate
complete journal titles from abbreviations and vice versa
- Single Citation Matcher:
locate journals with incomplete citations
- My NCBI: can set up
searches to run automatically and have results emailed to you
- PubMed Bookshelf - Includes
many science and biomedical textbooks.
- PubMed vs. PubMed
Central - PubMed Central is a free full-text archive of biomedical
and life sciences journal literature.
IV. CAB Abstracts
- Most comprehensive database
for veterinary medicine, animal science, and agriculture.
- Covers international publications,
conference proceedings, meeting reports, book chapters.
- Coverage: 1910 - present
- Search Tips
- Construct search statements
using: and, or
- Use British spellings;
check the thesaurus for terminology. Examples: leukaemia, odour,
oestrogens, haematology
- Can limit search to
"English only" articles.
- Use abbreviations and
complete disease names. Example: prrs or porcine reproductive and
respiratory syndrome
- When you enter one or
more terms, it is searched as a phrase. Example: canine pregnancy
termination does not retrieve any records. Try: (canine or dogs)
and pregnancy and termination
- Note: Our site license
only permits 8 simultaneous users!
V. Web of Science
(part of the Web of Knowledge)
- Provides
access to the ISI Citation Indexes: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences
Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Science
Citation Index: 6,376 covered scientific journals
- ISU
subscription goes back to 1945 for the Science Citation Index.
- Can
search by topic or do cited reference searching.
- Search Tips
- Use AND, OR
- Example: mad cow disease
OR bse OR bovine spongiform encephalopathy
- Can "Refine Results"
a variety of ways (left-hand sidebar)
- Times cited information:
displays the number of times an article has been cited and links
to the citing articles
- Can search "All databases"
withing the Web of Knowledge simultaneously.