Online Training Guides & Research Information

Boolean Searching

Boolean Searching on the Internet: a Primer in Boolean Logic

Database Searching

Cochrane Library
Cochrane Library User guide (Australasian Cochrane Centre)

Ebsco
Searching Ebsco Databases (WNHS User guide)

Getting Started with Searching (WNHS User Guide)
Guide to Finding Australian Content in Healthcare 2nd ed. April 2008

Ovid
OvidSP Tutorials
Includes basic searching, advanced searching, finding citations.

PubMed
    PubMed Basics (US National Library of Medicine)
    PubMed Ten Tips (Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library)
    PubMed Tutorial (US National Library of Medicine)

EndNote

WNHS EndNote User Guides
    Information on accessing EndNote at WNHS
    Configuring EndNote to Access Full Text
    Importing References from Databases

EndNote X3 - Users Guide (PDF 9.2MB)
EndNote X3 - Getting Started (PDF 3MB)
EndNote User Forums (useful for solving problems)
EndNote Web Tutorial

EndNote X3 Tutorials (requires Windows Media Player)
1 - Overview (18MB)
2 - What's New (15MB)
3 - Preferences (7MB)
4 - Online Search Mode (8MB)
5 - Importing a Text File (15MB)
6 - Manual Data Entry (8MB)
7 - Journal Names (7MB)
8 - Transferring References (5MB)
9 - Groups (10MB)
10 - Cite While You Write - Find Citation (4MB)
11 - Cite While You Write - Insert Citation (4MB)
12 - Cite While You Write - Format Bibliography (6MB)
13 - Cite While You Write - Edit Citations (7MB)
14 - Cite While You Write - EndNote Web (5MB)
15 - Cite While You Write - Pages (13MB)
16 - Cite While You Write - OpenOffice.org Writer (10MB)

Evidence-Based Practice

BMJ Learning
Register to access free modules.

Evidence-Based Answers to Clinical Questions for Busy Clinicians
Workbook. The Centre for Clinical Effectiveness, Melbourne.

Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine
Online tutorial. Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Teaching / Learning Resources for Evidence Based Practice
Middlesex University

Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice (Canadian Centre for Health Evidence - CHE)
"The complete set of Users' Guides originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)".

Instructions to Authors & Referencing Guides

APA (American Psychological Association) Style
The Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
US National Library of Medicine (Vancouver style).

Harvard (Author/Date) Style
The University of Melbourne.

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
All links are to "primary sources" - that is, to publishers and organizations with editorial responsibilities for the titles.

Interpreting Citations (WNHS User Guide)
Guide to interpreting citations from journal articles, books and book chapters.

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (AKA Vancouver style).

Journal Abbreviations

PubMed Journals Database
Find the full journal title or the title abbreviation.

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