ICML 9

9º World Congress on Health Information and Libraries

Salvador, Bahia - Brazil, September, 20 to 23 - 2005

BVS4

4th Regional Coordination Meeting of the VHL

September, 19 to 20 - 2005

Searching health care databases

Participants:

  • June Levy

    MLS, Managing Director, Cinahl Information Systems, Glendale, CA  - USA
Searching health care databases

Course objectives
1. Describe expert searching roles for librarians working with nursing and allied health professionals
2. Select relevant bibliographic databases for nursing and allied health professionals
3. Discuss features and differences of health care databases
4. Search strategy planning and implementation

Prerequisites:
Library sciences professional
Basic knowledge of bibliographic databases

Databases: MEDLINE; CINAHL; PsycINFO; SportDiscuss