Module 5 Flashcards
Primary Sources
In the sciences and health sciences, original data or reports of results from original research presented by the people who conducted the research
Scientific publishing cycle:
A model describing how research becomes disseminated in publications
Manuscript
A scholarly paper prior to its publication
Journal
A collection of scholarly articles published together in an issue
Peer Review
When experts and editors rigorously evaluate a manuscript submitted for publication
Database
A collection of records for scholarly and nonscholarly sources organized in a searchable interface
Bibliographic record:
A record organizing and presenting citation information, abstracts, and descriptive terms such as keywords and subject headings for a published source
Subject headings
Formal descriptive terms used by databases, including CINAHL, to describe the content of a source
Secondary sources
Commentaries, summaries, reviews, or interpretations of primary sources; often written by those not involved in the original work
Scholarly literature:
Literature, including journals, journal articles, and sometimes other sources such as books and theses, that go through a peer review or rigorous editorial review process
CINAHL
A bibliographic database indexing journals and other resources focused on nursing and allied health
PubMed:
medical subject headings (MeSH):
PubMed: A freely available large biomedical bibliographic database providing access to mainly peer-reviewed journal articles produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine
medical subject headings (MeSH): Key topical words used to index art
Joanna Briggs Institute and Cochrane Library
both the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) and the Cochrane Library are considered by many to be gold-standard sources of systematic reviews due to their commitment to producing evidence through strict processes
PsycINFO
PsycINFO is a database produced by the American Psychological Association
The database primarily includes journal article abstracts from nearly 2,500 psychological journals in addition to a smaller fraction of content from psychological books and dissertations.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar defines scholarship broadly, including a variety of documents and items that other databases do not include. This database includes a wide selection of journals across many disciplines and works with many different publishers to populate it.
Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP)
a database that brings together high-level synthesized evidence to inform EBP. The database provides access to records for publications, such as systematic reviews, meta-analyses, practice guidelines, and governmental reports from around the world, and then uses an algorithm to order and present the results
a database that brings together high-level synthesized evidence to inform EBP. The database provides access to records for publications, such as systematic reviews, meta-analyses, practice guidelines, and governmental reports from around the world, and then uses an algorithm to order and present the results
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (United States)
- National Institutes of Health (United States)
- Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (United States)
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: NICE (United Kingdom)
- National health associations such as American Heart Association and American Cancer Association
Interlibrary loan:
A service that retrieves or borrows journal articles or other resources from another institution
Boolean operators
A set of terms that act as commands for connecting parts of a search strategy such that a database combines terms in the proper order
Truncation
A technique of shortening a word and adding a wildcard symbol to tell a database to add variant endings to the word in a search
“OR”
Keywords
Controlled Vocabularies
- Common words or phrases used to describe a concept
- A listing of standardized terms, often arranged from general to specific, used by databases to describe what an article or source is about
Building Search Strategies: Steps
Step 1: State the PICOT Question
Step 2: State the Concepts in Keyword Form
Step 3: Select Two to Three Databases
Step 4: Develop a List of Synonyms
Steps 5 and 6: Use Boolean Operators to Create a Search Statement and Search the Database
Citation chasing
Fields
citation chasing: Using a reference list to identify sources of evidence
field: An individual element of information in a database
- When constructing the databases, publishers and database producers label pieces of a citation using fields that can be accessed through a dropdown menu within an advanced search interface
Limiters
A field used in a database and presented as a way to quickly sift through results based on particular attributes
Citing articles in the text of assignments and other projects is how we provide appropriate credit to others’ work. This requires understanding the differences between quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing material.
Paraphrasing:
Restating another’s ideas or words in your own words after fully understanding the ideas
Copyright:
A set of legal rights given to a creator of a work providing ability to publish, distribute, reproduce, perform, and make derivatives of the work
