{"id":3542,"date":"2017-02-26T16:18:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T16:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2017-02-26T16:19:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T16:19:18","slug":"even-more-on-literature-searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2017\/02\/26\/even-more-on-literature-searching\/","title":{"rendered":"Even more on literature searching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhich database should I use for my topic ? \u201c is an all too familiar question. Luckily, help is at hand &#8211; http:\/\/www.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/resources\/databases\/index.html &#8211; is a useful list of databases by subject, and for big topics such as \u201cPublic Health\u201d, it lists the most useful databases first. There also handy hints under the \u201cAbout this database\u201d section regarding subject coverage and search techniques.<br \/>\nDepending on your search topic you are likely to start your search using one of the public health \u201cheavyweights\u201d such as PubMed or Medline database. You may ask, and it is a good question, what is the difference between the two ? In short, PubMed contains Medline references, so is often a good starting point, and the interface is similar to another big public health database \u201cEmbase\u201d, so you can easily switch databases using the same keyword searches. Other databases are more general such as Scopus and Web of Science, which focus on the wider Social Sciences, and others more specialist such as PsycInfo, and Africa-Wide Information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy can\u2019t I just search Google\u201d ? , you may ask. Well you can, via Google Scholar (https:\/\/scholar.google.co.uk\/), which can complement database searching, and useful for comparing search results.<br \/>\nHere are some useful links :<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/guidance\/training\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/guidance\/training\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/guidance\/lit_search\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/guidance\/lit_search\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhich database should I use for my topic ? \u201c is an all too familiar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81945,1],"tags":[27666,27656],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature-searching","category-uncategorised","tag-databases","tag-literature-searching","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Even more on literature searching - Library, Archive &amp; Open Research Services blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2017\/02\/26\/even-more-on-literature-searching\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Even more on literature searching - Library, Archive &amp; Open Research Services blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cWhich database should I use for my topic ? 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