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The following list of search engines was developed when the Musher
Program website was first designed and they have
not been updated since. Many of the links may no longer be functional. For
a current annotated list of evidence-based policy and practice references
refer to Oxford
Bibliographies in Social Work. Especially relevant are three of the
Oxford Bibliographies: Evidence-based
Social Work Practice; Evidence-based
Social Work Practice: Finding the Evidence; and, Evidence-based
Social Work Practice: Issues, Controversies, and Debates.
CINAHL
http://www.cinahl.com/
Citations
and abstracts for articles in nursing and allied health periodicals.
Access:
Restricted, annual membership, pay per article 
Columbia
University LibraryWeb
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/
Gateway
to Columbia University's extensive online resources. In addition
the social science electronic database section provides access to several
services providing full-text articles (e.g., Ingenta
Library Gateway).
Access:
Restricted, Columbia University affiliation required
ERIC
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
The
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a digital library of
education-related resources, sponsored by the Institute of Education
Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.
Access:
Free search, some free full text
InfoTrac College Edition Online library
http://www.infotrac-college.com
Provides
access to full-text research and non-research articles online, updated
daily, spanning several recent years.
Access:
Free four month access with purchase of new copy
of some texts which contains a pass code
Intute: Social Sciences
http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/
Intute, for those
bemused by the new name, is an amalgam of 'internet' and 'tutorial' that
has been chosen to replace the rather more straightforward Resource
Discovery Network. SOSIG - the Social Science Information Gateway - was
part of the Resource Discovery Network, and has
recently been re-born as Intute: Social Sciences,
which also incorporates another of the former RDN 'hubs' called Altis. SOSIG users should find the design of the new
service quite familiar, and it continues to provide access to a vast amount
of information across all social science disciplines. Details of Intute services in other disciplinary fields can be
found at http://www.intute.ac.uk/development/.
Access:
free
Library
of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
The
Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and
serves as the research arm of Congress.
Access:
Free online catalog search, some free digital collections
National
Library of Medicine PubMed
http://www.pubmed.gov/
PubMed,
a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million
MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science
journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles
and other related resources. For those not familiar with PubMed, Medline,
and using MeSH you may wish to take the online
tutorial at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html
(accessible
as well from the sidebar on the PubMed home page.
PubMed
Central
A
free archive of life sciences journals.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
Access:
Free access
NIH
Library and Literature Resources
http://www.nih.gov/science/library.html
Access:
Limited, some free access depending on database
OVID
Technologies
http://www.ovid.com/
Over
90 commercial databases are available through Ovid. They include the
definitive bibliographic resources in many research areas. For research in
medicine and allied health, Ovid offers MEDLINE® and EMBASE; in nursing,
CINAHL; in bioscience, the BIOSIS databases; for general reference, Current
Contents®, Newspaper Abstracts and Wilson Reader's Guide Abstracts; and so
on in business, humanities, engineering, agriculture, science &
technology, and social sciences.
Access:
Restricted, free trials for select databases each month
ProQuest
Direct
http://www.proquest.com/
An
interdisciplinary database representing titles found in ABI INFORM (Global
Edition), Periodicals Abstracts (Research II Edition), and Newspaper Abstracts.
Generally periodicals indexed back to 1971 with
full-text back to 1988; newspapers indexed back to 1989 with full-text back
to 1995. More than 2,000 professional, scholarly, trade and general
interest periodicals, including full-text for over
1,000 titles and citations and abstracts for the others. The database also
covers 27 primary and secondary U.S. newspapers, 11 of which are in full-text.
Access:
Restricted
PsycARTICLES
http://www.apa.org/psycarticles/
Citations
and abstracts for publications about psychology and related disciplines.
Access:
Free search, pay per article
PsycINFO
http://www.apa.org/psycinfo/
Citations
and abstracts for publications about psychology and related disciplines.
Access:
Restricted to members of the American Psychological Association, free demo,
for more information on access for individuals: http://www.apa.org/psycinfo/products/individuals.html
Public
Libraries
http://www.publiclibraries.com/
List
of public libraries in the United States.
The
New York Public Library Online Collection
Subscribes
to over 300 commercially-produced research
databases, including several in the social science and medical fields.
http://www.nypl.org/databases/
Access:
Free with membership access card, membership to The New York Public Library
is free for residents of New York State.
Science
Citation Index Expanded: Copyright Institute for Scientific Information®
2001
http://scientific.thomson.com/mjl/
Provides
access to the Science citation index expanded from 1900 to the present , Social sciences citation index from 1956 to
the present, and Arts & humanities citation index from 1975 to the
present.
Access:
Free searchable database for journals, but restricted access to articles
Social
Care Online (SCO) Extended Abstracts
www.socialcareonline.org
SCO-
the database of the Social Care Institute for Excellence now contains over
100 extended abstracts of systematic reviews, meta-analyses and scoping
reviews across a wide subject range including social care, health care and
criminal justice. For those wishing to use systematic reviews in their
research or practice these very detailed and structured abstracts provide
thorough coverage of the contents of the reviews and can be examined by
searching the database
using the keyword 'systematic review' and keyword(s) for the subject in
question.
Access: Free
Social
Policy & Practice (SPP)
SPP is the Ovid Technologies database of the month in September - all
people
need to do is go to our website (www.evidencenetwork.org),
click on
Resources, go the Social Policy and Practice page and click on www.ovid.com.
The
link will take you to the database where a free trial can be booked.
The database is a merger of four UK produced specialist services, AgeInfo,
Urbadoc, Social Care Online and Planex covering a wide range of social,
health and public policy issues. With over 200,000 references to
predominantly UK research and practice the database is a major addition to
the resources available to those seeking existing evidence in the social
sciences.
Access:
Free trial
Social
Sciences Citation Index Expanded: Copyright Institute for Scientific
Information® 2001
http://scientific.thomson.com/mjl/
Bibliographic
information and cited references in articles in social sciences journals.
Access:
Free searchable database for journals, but restricted access to articles
Social
Services Abstracts
http://www-md1.csa.com/factsheets/ssa-set-c.php
Citations
and abstracts for research in social work, human services, and related
areas, incl. social welfare, social policy & community development.
Access:
Restricted, demonstration and trials available
Social
Services InfoNet
http://www.socservices.com/
Reviews
of current social work books, links to social work
websites, e-journals, e-newsletters, and topical bibliographies.
Access:
Restricted, demonstration and trials available
Social
Work Abstracts
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/DataBase/150.jsp?top=2&mid=3&bottom=7&subsection=10
Citations
and abstracts for articles in social work and social welfare periodicals.
Access:
Restricted
Social
Work Access Network - Social Work Publications
http://cosw.sc.edu/swan/media.html
List
of social work related publications
Access:
Designated as abstracts only, full text, and information only
Sociological
Abstracts
http://www.csa.com/factsheets/socioabs-set-c.php
Citations
and abstracts for articles in sociology periodicals.
Access:
Restricted, demonstration and trials available
*SUMSearch
Developed and operated by Bob Badgett, MD. Associate Professor of Medicine. Director
of Clinical Informatics, Department
of Medicine. UTHSCSA
(University of Texas Health Science Center) and Linda Levy, MLS, AHIP. Briscoe Medical Library
http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/
SUMSearch is a unique
method of searching for medical evidence by using the Internet. SUMSearch combines meta-searching and contingency
searching in order to automate searching for
medical evidence. Meta-searching, which is used by from general Internet
search engines such as from Go2Net, Dogpile, and SavvySearch,
means simultaneously searching multiple Internet sites and collating the
results into one page. In addition, SUMSearch
adds the idea of contingency searching. If SUMSearch
finds too many ‘hits’ from an Internet site, SUMSearch
will execute more restrictive, contingency searches. For example, if a
search finds 1000 articles at PubMed, SUMSearch
may do up to four additional searches until an optimal number is received.
On the other hand, if SUMSearch finds few hits
from an Internet site, it may add a search of another site. For example, if
the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) provides too
few systematic reviews, SUMSearch will add a
search for systematic reviews from MEDLINE. In summary, SUMSearch
allows the clinician to enter a query one time, and then will: select the
best Internet sites to search, format the query for each site, execute
contingency searches, then return a single document to the clinician. SUMSearch removes the burden to the clinician of
remembering details such as which Internet site truncates with the dollar
sign and how to execute a limit for the AIM journals if too many articles are
found at MEDLINE.
TRIP
(Turning Research Into Practice)
www.tripdatabase.com
The
TRIP Database searches over 75 sites of high-quality medical information.
The TRIP Database gives you direct, hyperlinked access to the largest
collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from
premier on-line journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM etc.
Access:
Restricted, 3 free searches allowed for access to articles, guidelines
Access restricted
All
other databases have limited access or free access to the public.
*Descriptions
of web sites are either direct quotes or adaptations of descriptions
provided on the respective sites. It is recommended that access to these
sites for Columbia University officers and students be through the Columbia
University Library web to maximize free access to those sources that are
fee based since Columbia may have a subscription.
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