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+ Evaluating Databases and Keeping Track of your Research John Pell Assistant Professor Hunter College Libraries

Evaluating Databases

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Slides from a workshop on evaluating literature databases for research in public health for undergraduates in the urban public health program at Hunter College.

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Evaluating Databases and Keeping Track of your Research

John PellAssistant ProfessorHunter College Libraries

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+Overview

Keeping Track of your Research: Citation Management

Evaluating Databases for Public Health Research

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+Keeping Track of your ResearchCitation Management

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+Citation Management in Word

Within the “References” tab, you

can “Manage Sources.”

In the long run, it makes it easy to insert citations and create a bibliography, but you have to type out each

source (and it doesn’t support AMA.)

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+Keeping Track of your Research with RefWorks

Citation Managers like Refwork offer tools for capturing

information from the web, without any typing.

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+In Class Exercise 1: Create Your Refworks Account and Set Up “RefGrab-it.”

Open Internet Explorer (RefWorks exhibits some glitches in Firefox.)

Go to RefWorks.com and create a your account.

To set up RefGrab-it: Go to the “Tools” Menu Select “RefGrab-it” Save the “RefGrab-it Bookmarklet” in the favorites bar.

Test RefGrab-it in PubMed.

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+Evaluating Databases for Public Health ResearchScope, content, organization, and special features.

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+In Class Exercise 2: Evaluating 3 Research Databases

PubMed

Web of Science

SocINDEX

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+In Class Exercise 2: Evaluating 3 Research Databases

What range of subjects is covered in the database?

What type of content is available in the database?

How is the database organized? Is there a controlled vocabulary?

What features are available for keeping track of research in the database?

To get your group started, run a search on:Social determinants of health

In your database.

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+In Class Exercise 2: Evaluating 3 Research Databases

PubMed

Scope?

Content?

Organization?

Features?

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+In Class Exercise 2: Evaluating 3 Research Databases

Web of Science

Scope?

Content?

Organization?

Features?

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+In Class Exercise 2: Evaluating 3 Research Databases

SocINDEX

Scope?

Content?

Organization?

Features?

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+Selected Database Features

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+Citation Tracking in Web of Science

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+Discovering Connections through MeSH Terms and the Sociology Thesaurus

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+Collecting Resources in EBSCO

Add articles to your “folder.”

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+Collecting Resources in Web of Knowledge

Add selected articles to your “marked list.”

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+Collecting Resources in PubMed

Send selected articles to the “clipboard” by

clicking on “Send to:” and then, “Add to

Clipboard,”

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+Exporting from EBSCO

EBSCO supports direct export to RefWorks

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+Exporting from EBSCO

EBSCO offers a tool for retrieving

formatted citations for individual records.

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+Exporting from Web of Knowledge

Direct export to RefWorks is supported.

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+Exporting from PubMed

Direct export to RefWorks is not supported, but

RefGrab-It will work to capture records.