Laurel Sammonds Crawford, MLISCVM Librarian

CVM LibraryClinical Research Review

CVM Online Research Guide

Scan or click on the code to the left to go to the CVM Online Research Guideat http://guides.library.msstate.edu/cvm

On the Clinical Resources tab, you’ll find clinical reference e-books, print books, and links to more resources.

You may also want to check out the Veterinary Professional Development tab and the Manage Your Information tab.

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Agenda

• Fast and reliable searching• Alerts• Get Help! CVM Library Details

EBM Pyramid of Evidence

VIN Message Boards and textbooks

Critical reviews of research, of either individual studies or a synthesis of manyOriginal

research

Find these specific types of evidence by entering their names as search terms, or by using PubMed Article Type filters

Fast and reliable searching: up-to-date research

Step 1: Search the veterinary databases (see next slide) to find:• Journal articles, conference proceedings, and professional

magazines• Results of recent experimental or exploratory research• Case studies• Explanation of controversies or debates• Focused information and news on specific pathologies• Most articles are now online!

Whether you’re in the AHC at a computer or out at a farm on your iPad, you can access most scientific articles and lots of books online. Here’s how:

Remember: start at

MSU Libraries’ vet database portal

and then click the “Find It”

button to get online access

to full-text PDF’s

Fast and reliable searching: up-to-date research

Key Databases Info

PubMed Free, comprehensive database of medical research

PubMed tutorialsPubMed Help ebook

ScopusA powerful scientific database with comprehensive life sciences information

Scopus training

VetMed ResourceCollects all of CABI’s veterinary information into one place

Search or browse articles grouped by topic; contains datasheets written by veterinary experts

ProQuestSearch theses and dissertations by topic, author, or school

Searches unpublished, yet scientific literature

Google ScholarLimits to scholarly work; also shows who cited a paper

Google Scholar FAQGood supplemental database, see what you may have missed elsewhere

Fast and reliable searching: summaries and background infoStep 2: Search Veterinary Clinics of North America • See cheat sheet—most are now online!• Up-to-date information on diagnoses, techniques and therapy• Articles (chapters) grouped on a focused theme within a book

Step 3: Search the Online Catalog for Books• Broad, background supporting information• Diagrams, charts, anatomical drawings• Review specific pathologies, techniques• Useful for researching unfamiliar situations and species• Drug info and other reference• You can limit to e-books by setting Type to “electronic books”

Search Tips ‘n’ Tricks

Search Tip Example

Use correct spelling—some databases don’t autocorrect

ophthalmology

Try different keywords, synonyms, and larger or smaller category terms

•pig: try swine, artiodactyla, ungulate•theriogenology = breeding

Enclose phrases in quotes “blood brain barrier”

Search in specific fields by using the Advanced Search

Depending on the database, you can search by author, title, institutional affiliation, even journal title or pharmaceutical action

Filters are your friend! After searching, use filters to narrow results by publication date, language, type of publication, and more.

Search Tips ‘n’ Tricks

How to find an incomplete citation If you only have part of a medical citation, fill in this form with what you do know, and it

will find the rest of the information: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/citmatch

If you know what article you’re looking forPaste the title into the “Discovery” box at library.msstate.edu to jump directly to it

How to use InterLibrary Loan (ILL)• If MSU Libraries doesn’t have something you need, you can borrow other libraries’

items—from around the world• Have it delivered to the CVM Library for pickup• Fill out the form at https://illiad.library.msstate.edu/illiad/

To get off-campus access to online library resources• Go through MSU Libraries’ website and enter your NetID and password when prompted

• Set up database email alerts for new publications on a certain topic – Pubmed (“MyNCBI”)—look for

Save Search– Agricola, MEDLINE, CAB Abstracts

(“MyEBSCOHost”)—look for Search Alerts and Journal Alerts

– Google Scholar (uses your regular Google account)—look for Alerts

• Set up alerts for tables-of-contents from your favorite journal at http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/

Scholarly News Alerts in Your Area of Interest

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Example of a PubMed (MyNCBI) alert

Get Help! CVM Library Details

• Hours:

• Contact

Monday – Thursday 7 AM – 11 PM

Friday 7 AM – 5 PM

Saturday 10 AM – 6 PM

Sunday 2 PM – 10 PM

Laurel Sammonds, Librarian662-325-1114lsammonds@library.msstate.eduwww.library.msstate.edu/cvm

•Call and ask for quick assistance•Schedule an appointment to build an in-depth searching plan•Report problems•After hours, Ask A Librarian via chat

Your CVM Librarian is here to help with your clinical research…