Databases and Search Engines Where to look and What to find?

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1 Databases and Search Engines Where to look and What to find? NADA AL TASSAN, PhD Genetics Department KFSH&RC 4/11/ /10/

2 What are we going to talk about? Databases and search tips. Google the search engine. Medline plus and emedicine. Proquest. Science Direct. Ncbi. Medline via epnet. Web of Knowledge. altassan/2007 ٢

3 Search engines and Databases Search Engines Research Databases altassan/2007 ٣

4 Cost Databases Databases are not always freely available. Quality Databases may contain full text journal articles. Organization Databases are organized under a classification system. altassan/2007 ٤

5 Most databases use the following operators- AND, OR, NOT both Colon AND Cancer. either Colon OR Cancer. Colon NOT Cancer. altassan/2007 ٥

6 Limiters Decreases the number of items found Possible Limiters: Fields (author, title, subject, etc.) Date Full-text Review, report, conference paper etc. altassan/2007 ٦

7 Truncation Example ortho* Will retrieve: Symbols orthopedic, orthopedics, orthopedist, etc. - for example a gene symbol or a disease symbol. altassan/2007 ٧

8 Database Features and alerts article to personal address. Save Save article to disk to print/view later. Place articles in web folder clipboard While browsing results. Place selected articles in web folder. Import to referencing program Direct import or filtered import. altassan/2007 ٨

9 Search tips Pick out key words & use synonyms Instead of: the effects of antioxidants on cancer prevention. Use: Cancer AND antioxidants. altassan/2007 ٩

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17 Plagiarism altassan/2007 ١٧

18 Junior medical and science students might find this site useful It gives basic information altassan/2007 ١٨

19 Medical articles altassan/2007 ١٩

20 ProQuest Covers newspapers, magazines and journals. Most (not all) articles available fulltext Coverage 1986 present (in some cases, as early as 1970). Select peer-reviewed if you want journal articles. altassan/2007 ٢٠

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22 Account Name: 004xstw xstw79q Password: Welcome altassan/2007 ٢٢

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28 Science Direct Launched in Peer reviewed articles. More than 1,800 journals including the Lancet, cell and others. Access to online articles before print. Agriculture, science, medicine, sociology and psychology. User name:? Password:? altassan/2007 ٢٨

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30 NCBI; altassan/2007 ٣٠

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32 Genbank: Submitted gene Sequences Letreture data bases: Pibmed, Books, OMIM. Molecular data bases: sequences, structures. Genomic Biology: Human genome, SNP data base, organisms specific resources. FTP site: to down load data and software. Tools: every thing you can think off. ORF finder, electronic PCR, Blast, Locus link. altassan/2007 ٣٢

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37 It is better to limit the search using the parameters above altassan/2007 ٣٧

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44 Run Search in PubMed Mark citations of interest altassan/2007 ٤٤

45 From the pull-down menu between the "Display" and show" buttons, change the display setting to what ever you prefer. Click on Send to button and chose file to download your citations. altassan/2007 ٤٥

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47 Chose location Save the results with a proper file name. Type of file.text. altassan/2007 ٤٧

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49 OMIM; Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man altassan/2007 ٤٩

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57 EBSCO databases htpp://search.epnet.com Searches; Medline, ERIC, Academic Search Premier, Sprots and National Technical information. Abstracts and Full text. altassan/2007 ٥٧

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64 UK Web of Knowledge covers journals, proceedings, journal citations, patents and chemical structures. From 1945 to date. Different databases, Science, Art and Humanities. ISI Chemistry which provides chemical information databases. Journal Citation Reports journals evaluation. altassan/2007 ٦٤

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66 Breast Cancer Search for your topic of interest altassan/2007 ٦٦

67 Breast Cancer Michaelson JS, Satija S, Kopans D, Moore R, Silverstein M, Comegno A, Hughes K, Taghian A, Powell S, Smith B. Gauging the impact of breast carcinoma screening in terms of tumour size and death rate. CANCER 98(10): Nov 2003 Duijts SF, Zeegers MP, Borne BV. The association between stressful life events and breast cancer risk: A meta-analysis INT J CANCER 107(6): Dec Select citations of interest and mark. -click Submit Marks to complete the process. Ali SM, Harvey HA, Lipton A. altassan/2007 ٦٧

68 Breast Cancer Go to Marked List to process citations Michaelson JS, Satija S, Kopans D, Moore R, Silverstein M, Comegno A, Hughes K, Taghian A, Powell S, Smith B. Gauging the impact of breast carcinoma screening in terms of tumour size and death rate. CANCER 98(10): Nov 2003 Duijts SF, Zeegers MP, Borne BV. The association between stressful life events and breast cancer risk: A meta-analysis INT J CANCER 107(6): Dec 2003 Ali SM, Harvey HA, Lipton A. altassan/2007 ٦٨

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73 Other Useful Web sites EDINA BIOSIS contains bibliographic information on traditional areas of biology such as zoology, botany, microbiologyand biochemistry. Access is restricted to institutions, which have a password. BookFind-Online is a subscription web service for library professionals and the book trade, designed to exceed the exacting requirements of those to whom access to the highest quality information in the most convenient form is a necessity. Useful for people interested physics. Username:kingsaudev2/password:kingsaudev2. Thesis and desertions abstracts. altassan/2007 ٧٣