13. Use subheadings with care; they can focus your search dramatically.
Shows where term
is on the “tree” &
what other terms
will be included in
your search (every
term below).
14. PubMed : Revised search terms,
keywords + MeSH
cognition
cognitive disorders
species
(i.e.,
human/
animal)
social
psychology
age
aging
brain
stimulation
and social
cognition
Alzheimer
disease
social
perception
dementia
transcranial magnetic
stimulation/ electric
stimulation
15. Boolean Operators
OR = More results
Combine Synonyms
AND = fewer results
Combine Concepts
(Alzheimer disease OR dementia)
dementia AND electric stimulation
Alzheimer
disease
dementia
dementia
electric
stimulation
16. REVISED SEARCH
(alzheimer disease OR dementia) AND (electric
stimulation OR brain stimulation) AND (social
perception OR cognition OR cognitive disorders)
29. Practice
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1. Scenario: You want to find out what the research says about sex differences in drug
addiction. Write down at least three keywords that you would use to search this topic:
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2. How would you limit your search to results from 2008-present?
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Sex factors
Recurrence
Addictive behavior
Substance related disorders, drug abuse, drug dependence
Specific drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, alcohol
Click the Publication Dates – Custom Range
and enter 2008-2013
3. Locate the article by Jill B. Becker entitled Sex differences in drug abuse.
– How did you locate this citation? Single citation matcher
– What are 3 MeSH terms used to index the article? cocaine, estrogen, narcotics, nicotine
– Does UM have electronic access? Yes
– What is the PMID of the article?
17904621
30. SEARCHING WEB OF SCIENCE
Access from Psych 331 research guide or library web site
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36. Practice
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1. Scenario: You want to learn more about gender differences of opioid addicts- specifically
concerning treatment options. Write down at least three keywords that you would use to
search this topic:
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2. If you wanted to refine your search to obtain results from a specific discipline, what
button/feature would you select?
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heroin
gender differences
drug abuse
opioid dependence
predictors
Click the Web of Science category you wish to view - press ‘Refine’
3. Locate the article by Robert N. Jamison entitled Gender differences in risk factors for aberrant
prescription opioid use.
– How many times has this paper been cited thus far? 19
– Does UM have access to this article? Yes
– How would you find more articles by this author? Click on author name or search by
author on front search page.
Results not properly focused; look at search details
Results not properly focused; look at search details
Rethink your search to come up with more & better search terms
Words in black are new & are MeSH
After determining your set of search terms, the next step for building your search is to establish how you want to combine your terms in order to get the most relevant results.Boolean operators, which are AND & OR, allow you to combine terms in different ways.In the example on the left, I’m using OR to combine two related terms. This is helpful when you’re are searching for a concept and you want to combine all keywords related to that concept. Here I’m searching for all articles about bad breath OR all articles about halitosis. This will give me a large result set.The example on the right shows what happens when you combine search terms using the Boolean operator AND. Using AND is used to combine different concepts. This search will return only the results that cover bad breath and toothbrushing. This will be a smaller result set than either of the individual search terms. A search for depression may return 10,000 results and a search for heart attack could return 20,000 results, but out of those possible 30,000 articles, you may only find that 5,000 of the results discuss both topics within the same article.
Starting to get more focused, on-target results
Filters help focus search results appropriately
Can also click on any author name to get list of everything that the person has written that’s indexed in PubMed.
Easily look of an article when you have the information; check “bad” or incomplete citations, or look up everything that an author has written & is indexed in PubMed.
Dropdown lists for journal & author names: when possible, choose from list. You can enter as much or as little information as you want. To find an incorrect citation, put in only the info that you think is correct: for ex, author name, journal, some words in article title.