ISP Flashcards
describes common experiences in the process of information seeking for a complex task that has a discrete
beginning and ending and that requires considerable construction and learning to be accomplished.
Information Search
Process
ISP SIX STAGE
Initiation
Selection
Exploration
Formulation
Collection
Presentation
ISP SIX STAGE MODEL is by
KUHLTHAO, 2017
When a person first becomes aware of a lack of knowledge or understanding and feelings ofuncertainty and apprehension are common.
Initiation
when a general area, topic, or problem is identified and initial uncertainty often gives way to a brief sense of optimism and a readiness to begin the search.
Selection
When inconsistent, incompatible information is encountered and uncertainty, confusion, and doubt frequently increase and people find themselves “in the dip” of confidence.
Exploration
considered the most difficult stage in the ISP when the information encountered can
increase uncertainty prompting a dip in confidence.
Exploration
When a focused perspective is formed and uncertainty diminishes as confidence begins to increase
Formulation
turning point of the ISP, when feelings of uncertainty diminish and confidence increases.
The task is to form a focus from the information encountered.
Formulation
four criteria used to select a topic may be again employed to choose a focus
Task;
Time;
Interest
Availability;
When information pertinent to the focused perspective is gathered and uncertainty subsides as
interest and involvement deepens.
Collection
At this point, the task is to gather information related to the focused topic.
Collection
When the search is completed with a new understanding enabling the person to explain his or her
learning to others or in someway put the learning to use.
Presentation
The task is to complete the search and to prepare to present or otherwise use the findings.
Presentation
an electronic index of literature that can include books, journals,
magazines, etc. When primary sources are needed, searchers often start with an Internet search engine (e.g.,
Google or Yahoo!), which scans Web sites and other information on the Web for their search terms.
Bibliographic Databases
2 ELECTRONIC SEARCH PROCESS
Bibliographic Databases
Searching the World Wide Web
provide better tools for focusing searches to find the most relevant studies
while filtering out irrelevant results.
Bibliographic Databases
provides a useful bibliographic database of
chemical information, including drug information
dating from 1907 to the present.
Chemical Abstracts Service
includes many document types such as patents, dissertations, and technical reports in addition to journal articles.
Chemical Abstracts Service
available as the BIOSIS Previews database through many vendors.
Biological Abstracts
It indexes journals, books,
book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, and patents from 1926 to the present in the major fields of biology, including biochemistry, biotechnology, genetics, nutrition, and many other areas
of interest to pharmacists.
Biological Abstracts
Created and maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), it is
one of the largest literature databases in the health sciences.
MEDLINE
produced by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and covers pharmacy
and drug information from 1971 to the present.
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA)
useful for searches involving pharmaceutical formulations, pharmacy practice and business, and other aspects of pharmacy that might not be included in the clinical literature indexed in PubMed.
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA)
it is used to combine search terms in a logical query to
inform the bibliographic database how to interpret the query and run the search. This helps control recall
and precision.
Boolean Logic
Boolean operator will produce results that include all the terms in the search.
“AND”
