Resource Guides: Researcher Tools, Services and Support: CPHR Resources

PLANNING

Planning a Search Strategy
Excellent overview from University of Edinburgh library.
Identifying the Evidence
From the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Online text.

Searching for Research Evidence in Public Health
Training modules from the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools, Canada.
Identifying the Evidence
From the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Online text.
Health Services Research (HSR) PubMed Queries
Specialized PubMed searches on healthcare quality and costs.
PubMed Clinical Queries
PubMed/MEDLINE search feature that filters results in order to display only articles backed by good evidence. NOTE: At the PubMed home page, choose the Clinical Queries option from the choices under "PubMed Tools."

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

~ A.A. Milne

My NCBI: Tutorials
From the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
Mendeley: Guides & Tutorials
Help for using the free, online bibliographic management tool, Mendeley.
RefWorks
Online tutorials for using RefWorks, a bibliographic management tool available to the UMMS community.
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Note: The Library supports training and use of RefWorks.
EndNote
Online training for EndNote, a bibliographic management tool.
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Note: The Library supports training and use of EndNote.

Glossary of Population Health Study Designs
From the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

Common databases and resources for finding literature:

PubMed
Use this link to search MEDLINE and easily link to UMass Chan subscriptions. PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books.
Cochrane Library
Scopus
Multidisciplinary coverage of high-impact journals in the sciences and social sciences. Content includes the EMBASE database and citation tracking and research metric tools.
CINAHL
PsycInfo
Psychiatry and psychology literature. (Access via the OVID platform.)
AHRQ Research Findings
Reports and papers on AHRQ research.