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Searching Skills Toolkit C De Brun

Searching Skills Toolkit By C De Brun

Searching Skills Toolkit by C De Brun


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Summary

The distinguishing feature of this pocket-sized searching skills book, like all the Toolkit series titles, is its user-friendliness. The guiding principle is that readers do not want to become librarians, but they are faced with practical difficulties when searching for evidence, such as lack of skills, lack of time and information overload.

Searching Skills Toolkit Summary

Searching Skills Toolkit: Finding the Evidence by C De Brun

The distinguishing feature of this pocket-sized searching skills book, like all the Toolkit series titles, is its user-friendliness. The guiding principle is that readers do not want to become librarians, but they are faced with practical difficulties when searching for evidence, such as lack of skills, lack of time and information overload. They need to learn simple search skills, and be directed towards the right resources to find the best evidence to support their decision-making. A user-friendly, Hands-On guide to literature searching, which is an essential skill for all involved in health care research and development, researchers, and students from all disciplines.

Searching Skills Toolkit Reviews

A userfriendly, HandsOn guide to literature searching, which is an essential skill for all involved in health care research and development, researchers, and students from all disciplines. ( Companies and products -- Data , 9 February 2013) Very useful. The authors are clearly experts in searching and they fill a gap in the market: there is no comparable book on 'the searching of the evidence.' ... [I] recommend this book to doctors who want to learn basic searching skills. As a medical information specialist I keep it in my pocket too. ( Laika's MedLibLog , March 2010)

About C De Brun

Caroline De Brun , Librarian, National Knowledge Service, Oxford, UK Nicola Pearce-Smith , Information Scientist, National Library for Health, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Oxford, UK

Table of Contents

1 Introduction. 2 Where to start? Summary tables and charts. 3 Sources of clinical information: an overview. 4 Using search engines on the World Wide Web. 5 Formulating clinical questions. 6 Building a search strategy. 7 Free text versus thesaurus. 8 Refining search results. 9 Searching specific healthcare databases. 10 Citation pearl searching. 11 Saving/recording citations for future use. 12 Critical appraisal. 13 Further reading by topic or PubMed ID. 14 Glossary of terms. Appendix 1: Ten tips for effective searching. Appendix 2: Teaching tips

Additional information

GOR006428874
9781405178884
1405178884
Searching Skills Toolkit: Finding the Evidence by C De Brun
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
20090102
136
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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