Instead of typing your research question:
Does regular exercise cause a reduced risk of Alzheimer's Disease?
Pick out one or two key ideas and build a search statement using search connectors AND, OR
Truncating a keyword may help you to find more results:
Trying various keywords for each idea AND using the guide to subject headings can improve your results
PubMed (includes Medline & OldMedline:1950-present) The leading source for articles from medical and health-related journals. More info
Tips:
- Capitalize AND/OR connectors if you use them
- Truncation symbol * - use with care, it turns off some nice "behind the scenes" search features!
- Guide to subject headings called the MeSH database (sidebar)
- No peer review limiter. If in doubt as to whether a journal has been peer reviewed, check the journal home page OR search for a description of the journal in Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
- Comparatively little full text, no Journal Finder links
- MyNCBI (top right) allows you to create an account, save searches to be run automatically
Keyword Searching:
- Type alzheimer's AND risk AND exercise
- Limits tab: set Languages to English
Results:
- Review articles are in the main list and also appear in a separate tab
- Check box, then Send to Clipboard to bookmark a citation
- To get to full text
- Hit article title to read more about that result
- Display Citation to see MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Hit a MeSH link to modify your search.
Build a subject search from the ground up:
- Open MeSH database (in PubMed sidebar)
- Type topic: Alzheimer's
- Check box, choose Send to search box with and (you may also hit the hyperlink for more information about the subject heading, including subheadings such as prevention and control)
- Type another topic: exercise
- Check box, choose Send to search box with and
- When satisfied, hit Search PubMed
PsychInfo (1872 to present) Guide to psychological literature. Includes topics such as stress, community health, mental health and behavioral issues. More info
Other Public Health databasesSearching:
- Type topic: alzheimer's AND risk AND exercise
- Set search limits under Refine Search tab: peer reviewed, English language
Results:
- Hit hyperlink (sidebar) to narrow your search
- Hit Add folder to bookmark a citation
- Check for full text... link launches a Journal Finder search
- Hyperlinked article title leads to more info about that result
Build a subject search from the ground up:
- Thesaurus (top green nav bar)
- Browse for subject term for your topic alzheimer's
- Check box, hit Add button
- Browse for subject term for your topic exercise
- Check Explode, hit Add to search using AND
- Hit Search button
If you'd like to re-use a previous search, go to the Search History tab.
Ulrich's provides information about newspapers, magazines, and journals in the U.S. and worldwide including whether a journal describes itself as refereed (peer reviewed). Usually this information can also be found in author instructions on a journal homepage, but Ulrich's provides a convenient single place to search for referee/peer review status for many journals. More info
Searching:
- Type journal name: current opinion in psychiatry
- Hit hyperlink for the appropriate title to see the basic description
- IF you see a line reading Refereed: Yes, then this journal reports itself as peer reviewed (compare with MMWR)
Journal Finder-Guide to Jackson Library serial subscriptions (newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals). Searches catalog for print subscriptions; searches 280 databases and electronic journal collections for online subscriptions. Most Jackson Library database subscriptions have Journal Finder links next to article citations, but you may also search Journal Finder using the link on the library home page, if you know exactly which volume, issue and pages of which journal your article was published in.
Search by JOURNAL TITLE (International Family Planning Perspectives)
Do NOT search by:
- Topic (reproductive behavior and india)
- Article title (Contraceptive knowledge, practices, and utilization of services in rural India)
