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