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Finding idea
literature Type
Primary Literature
Also called as peer reviewed Report actual data and results from the researcher who conduct the research. Source: peer reviewed articles in a scientific journal, and government or university website.
Secondary Literature
Summaries of results and ideas from the primary literature written for an audience of scientists with some understanding of the topic/Discusses the results of previous scientific studies (Review) Source: peer reviewed articles in a scientific journal article or textbook or webpage. Example: Journals that only publish review articles, Review Articles and Perspectives in other journals, Symposia, Books Use websites associated with a UNIVERSITY or GOVERNMENT AGENCY, or a source that includes a scientific bibliography.
Tertiary Literature
Generally written for a nonscientific audience or for scientists in other disciplines.
Generally sources of information in these articles are not cited, or only a bibliography of related readings is included.
Example: Science magazines (Current Science), Lay magazines (newspaper), Encyclopedias
Source of literature
Pubmed
Scope of Pubmed
How to search literature based on MeSH, Jurnal name, Full author name,author index How to use filter How to use building block (boolean logic, history, phrase searching) How to use search tool
Scope of pubmed
Over 22 million records representing articles in the biomedical literature and a small selection of items from the NCBI Books database.
PubMed provides access to MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicines premier bibliographic database containing citations and author abstracts from more than 5,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and in other countries.
The scope of MEDLINE includes such diverse topics as microbiology, delivery of health care, nutrition, pharmacology and environmental health. The categories covered in MEDLINE include everything from anatomy, organisms, diseases, psychiatry, and psychology to the physical sciences. MEDLINE currently contains over 19 million references dating back to 1946.
How to search
MeSH Jurnal name Full author name
Author index
How to use building block (boolean logic, history, phrase searching, review)
Boolean logic Boolean logic (AND, OR, NOT) refers to the logical relationships among search terms The Boolean operators can be used to combine search terms in PubMed. AND: Used to retrieve a set in which each citation contains all search terms.
AND is the default operator used in PubMed. If you do not include Boolean operators in your search, PubMed will automatically use AND between terms.
OR: Used to retrieve a set in which each citation contains at least one of the search terms.
Google scholar
Tips
Reference
Google scholar http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/refinesearch. html Pubmed tutorial http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html Researching Information in the Scientific Literature http://www.marietta edu/~biol/infolab/infores.pdf