Review Key Teaching Points Answer Sheet Search StrategiesWebsite

Review Key Teaching Points (Answer Sheet)

Search Strategies/Website Evaluation • Google vs. Google Scholar a) Google Scholar search results are citations to academic/research material b) Hinari/Google Scholar has links to ‘free full text’ articles and ‘some’ Hinari full text articles that are available through the program. c) Google is useful for basic information on a health topic (dengue fever, ebola) from organizations like the World Health Organization and (US) Centers for Disease Control d) a & b & c

Search Strategies/Website Evaluation • Some of the citations in Google and Scholar searches have links to full-text articles. These links open a) free-full text (open access) articles b) articles from commercial publishers where you will be asked to pay c) a & b d) neither a or b

Search Strategies/Website Evaluation • Pub. Med is: a) a National Library of Medicine (US) database of over 26, 000 biomedical citations with abstracts for most of the articles b) has a controlled vocabulary called Me. SH (Medical Subject Headings) c) has a keyword search engine that used the Me. SH vocabulary and keywords d) contains links to some full-text articles e) a & b & c & d

Search Strategies/Website Evaluation • For the Boolean operators: • ‘AND’ will combine two concepts and limit the search results to the specific terms a) ‘OR’ will limit a search to one word b) ‘NOT’ will narrow a search and eliminate related terms but possibly can eliminate useful citations c) a & b d) a & c

Search Strategies/Website Evaluation • When you evaluate a website, which combination of concepts would be useful: a) accuracy, author’s name and address, objectivity b) accuracy, objectivity, size of website, currency c) accuracy, authority, currency, objectivity, design/navigation d) authority, date website was created, design/navigation

Hinari Portal • To find a journal by title and open the full-text of a specific article, go to: a) View complete list of journals b) Journals collection A-Z list c) Subject list d) a & b

Hinari Portal • If you know the publisher of a journal but are not sure of the title, go to: a) Subject list b) Publisher list c) Journals collection A-Z list

Hinari Portal • If the green icon is before a journal title, your institution: a) has access to the contents b) does not have access to the contents c) you need to look at the ‘all items’ list to check

Hinari Portal • After logging into Hinari and clicking on one of the Journals collection A-Z letters, the a) the initial ‘accessible content’ list is displayed and has green boxes for journals you can access and also the ‘!’ symbol for ones you cannot access b) the initial ‘accessible content’ lists is displayed but lists only titles you have access to (green boxes) c) the ‘all items’ can be opened by user and lists both titles you can and cannot open (green boxes and ! symbols) d) b & c

Hinari Portal • The Publisher option initially contains: a) a list of only what your institution has access to b) a list of publishers that grant access to their titles followed by a list of publishers who have not granted access c) one list with publishers that grant access and publishers that do not grant access mixed together

Hinari Portal • If you have problems accessing a full-text article (for example, the publisher asks you to pay for the article), you can: a) Open the Hinari portal Power. Point presentation b) send an email directly to Hinari (r 4 l@research 4 life. org ) c) open the ‘Access Problems and Solutions’ Power. Point presentation and follow the step-by-step instructions d) b & c

Hinari/Pub. Med Database • After completing a search in Hinari/Pub. Med, the initial display contains: a) Summary format – with the citation (author, title, volume/issue/pages and date) plus links to ‘Free articles’ and ‘Free PMC articles’ b) Abstract format – all of above plus an abstract of the article c) ‘Free full text’ and ‘Hinari’ filters (top right of display) d) a & c

Hinari/Pub. Med Database • From the Abstract format, access includes: a) Citation, abstract and links (icons) to many full-text articles (Hinari, publisher or free full text icons) b) citation, abstract and links (icons) to full-text articles for all the citations c) citation, abstract but no links to full-text articles

Hinari/Pub. Med Database • The ‘HINARI’ filter has access to: a) only Hinari but not free-full text journals b) all Hinari journals (that publishers may or may not have granted access to) and free-full text articles that are from HINARI participating publishers c) only Hinari journals that your institution has access to and free-full text articles that are from Hinari participating publishers

Hinari/Pub. Med Database • You get links to the publishers’ websites (and the full-text articles) from the: a) Summary format b) Abstract format c) a & b

Hinari/Pub. Med Database • To use the ‘send to file’ option, you must: a) highlight the title of the citations you want to save b) put check marks in the boxes before the titles of the article c) go to the Abstract display option d) either a or b

Hinari/Pub. Med Filters and History • Filters: a) use ‘keywords’ to limit search results b) can limit searches by category c) automatically clears any filter that you use d) allow multiple filters to be used simultaneously e) b & d

Hinari/Pub. Med Filters and History • Filter options include: a) Article type (review, clinical trial, meta-analysis, etc. ) b) Publication Dates c) Language d) Ages e) Search fields (author, affiliation, journal, etc. ) f) a & b & c & d & e

Hinari/Pub. Med Filters and History • If you do not ‘clear options’ the highlighted filter(s) a) will automatically be removed b) will need to be manually removed unless you want to use the filter for the next search c) cannot be removed unless you go to the ‘Advanced Search’ option

Hinari/Pub. Med Filters and History • Options to clear filters include: a) ‘clear’ button next to highlighted filter b) ‘clear all’ button at the bottom of the filters column and below the ‘search results’ line c) By clicking on the highlighted filter d) a & b & c

Hinari/Pub. Med Filters and History • In Advanced Search, a) Previous searches can be combined by adding the #s in ‘Search Builder’ boxes using Boolean operators b) Previous searches can be combined by #s and additional keyword or Me. SH terms can be added in the ‘Search Builder’ boxes c) When you combine searches, the results (# of citations) always will be larger d) a & c e) a & b

Summon Search Tool • Summon is a) A Google like search tool that provides fast/relevancy ranked results b) Contains links to Hinari e-journals and e-book chapters and the complete books c) Has an abstract of the article or book chapter plus options for refining your search d) Is a very sophisticated tool that gives you more precise search results than Hinari/Pub. Med e) a & b & c & d f) a & b & c

Summon Search Tool • If available, use your Summon Country specific search option because it a) Links to only journal articles accessible in your specific country b) Links to journal articles, e-book chapters, e-books from all R 4 L publishers c) Links to journal articles, e-book chapters, e-books available in your specific country (publishers grant access) d) List of all search results with links only to what is available in your country e) a & d

Created by Hatem Nour El-Din Hassan Mohamed Technical Officer, Knowledge Sharing and Production WHO/EMRO Updated 2018 05