BEST Training
Module 5: Search
Demonstration
Overview of Module 5:
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Module 5 Handouts:
Methodology
Oriented Locators for Evidence Searching (MOLES)
Search Form
Search
Tracking Example
I. Electronic Demonstration
of Search Using a Database (e.g., PsychInfo)
a. Getting to a database
(using Google, university website, etc.)
b. Starting a search (using authors, titles, keywords, etc.)
c. Keeping track of searched terms
d. Using abstracts
II. Introduction to Other
Potentially Helpful Websites (Gibbs, Musher, etc.)
III. Review of Search
Plan
a. How does the agency see
their ability to search?
b. Will there be a single person who is a “searcher”? Several people?
Will everyone search? Is there no good candidate?
c. Handout search worksheet (see Gibbs p. 143)
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