Powerpoint, Week 4 (Literature Search Overview) Flashcards
Name the 4 Steps of the Search Process
- What am I looking for?
- Where can I find it?
- How do I access and retrieve it?
- How well does it satisfy my info requirement?
Which step of the search process does this describe:
- identifying one’s information needs (i.e. why info is necessary, for whom/what is it intended, what format is required, what is the time frame)
- ultimate goal - be clear about what to retrieve for translation into terms
WHAT (FYI 5-7 years is considered relevant info; no earlier than 10 years ago)
Which step of the search process does this describe:
- a good search process requires making good predictions where relevant info will be
- uses retrieved info to further define and articulate search concept for further search strategies
- start at general access point that will provide a myriad of resources
- you can always look at the article and click on “related articles” to help further search
WHERE
Which step of the search process does this describe:
- articulate and expand the topic into appropriate search terms with synonyms
- generate a search query defining logical relationships between search terms
- apply appropriate search syntax to search query to expand and contract search retrieval terms
- analyze info content to evaluate how well it corresponds to one’s intended topic
HOW
Which step of the search process does this describe:
- how well the information retrieved fulfills one’s needs
- reliability of information terms
HOW WELL
What does this describe:
“search queries that connect intended topic to text in information items that are retrieved”
search terms
What type of a search term does this describe:
“used to find information items and typically in title, author, subject, abstract, or full text” Is it key words or controlled language?
Key words
What type of a search term does this describe:
“hierarchical arrangement of subject headings? Is it phrases or controlled language?
Controlled language
True or False: A Boolean Logic search query does NOT increase the precision of searching by connecting search terms
False, it DOES INCREASE THE PRECISION
Fill in the proper Boolean search term: (AND, OR, NOT)
Boolean ______ “matches the specific text of both search terms”
AND
Fill in the proper Boolean search term: (AND, OR, NOT)
Boolean _____ “matches only specific text of one of the search terms”
NOT
Fill in the proper Boolean search term: (AND, OR, NOT)
Boolean _____ “matches specific text of either search term”
OR
True or False: Nesting allows Boolean search terms to be combined with each other in a search query for more precision
For example: ((cats OR dogs) AND pets) AND health
True (Nesting is also known as the order of operations)
True or False: Truncation expands a search term to include all forms of a root word
For example: child* would instruct the computer to search for any word that begins with child, such as children, child-like, childrearing etc.
True (FYI, the * is the truncation symbol)
True or False: Phrases do NOT capture exact strings of text
False, they DO capture exact strings of text
True or False: Proximity specifies relationship of terms by their nearness to each other in text of info item (AKA adjacency or positional searching and it specifies the order of occurrence in text)
True (FYI, the powerpoint says “can use “adj” “n” or “w” - but i don’t know what that means)
Three reasons for ______________:
1) ensure you have a thorough understanding of the topic
2) convey the breadth of the field as the context for your work
3) create new knowledge through comparison and analysis of existing studies
Possible Goals of a Literature Review
True or False: A Lit Review Should:
- focus on a specific research question
- identify gaps or controversial areas
- synthesize results into what is known/unknown on a topic
- propose opportunities for further research
True
True or False: these are the steps of the lit review process
1) identify specific research question
2) search the literature
3) manage citations to literature
4) assess relevance of the literature
5) synthesize the literature
6) write the review
True
True or False: In order to construct a searchable question, you might want to use PICO
True
PICO stands for what:
P - population/problem
I - intervention
C - comparison intervention (standard of care)
O - outcomes
True or False: these steps are helpful to formulate a search strategy:
- start broad and narrow gradually
- keep concepts separate
- use a mix of keywords and subject headings
- include boolean operators to combine concepts
- employ limits and filter to further narrow results
True
True or False: you do NOT get a specificity with subject headings like you do with keywords
False, you DO get a specificity with subject headings, even more than with keywords (only searches in the subject field of the article as an FYI)
What is one drawback to using the NOT boolean operator?
you can easily exclude things you don’t mean to
