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Try not to use quotations or truncation in PubMed.Search tip – Refine results by your Subject area to focus on the most relevant sourcesWatch Scopus tutorial: How to conduct a basic search (3 minutes 10 seconds video with captions and transcript)To access material found in Google Scholar, you will often need to copy and paste the article title into Te Waharoa (the Library's search engine).
Chapter 2; ‘Finding the Evidence for Practice in Social Work’ discusses different types of research sources, searching techniques and evaluation.
Covers searching the literature and levels of evidence (chapter 2), types of evidence (chapter 3), evaluating evidence from clinical trials (chapter 6).
Written by a team of medical experts, this market-leading illustrated dictionary contains 12,400 authoritative entries covering all aspects of medical science.
Information on medical disorders and concepts. Each article includes in-depth discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and other related topics.
Videos from the Medical Research Council, Clinical Trials Unit (MRC CTU)
Referencing and Citing library guide has lots of information about referencing styles, reference management software, reasons to reference, and how to get help with referencing. Before linking out to this general library guide take a look below for details of the two most popular referencing styles for medicine and clinical research.
APA (American Psychological Association) is an in-text referencing style commonly used across medicine, biology, and the social sciences.
NLM (US National Library of Medicine) style is a numbered referencing style mainly used in medicine. This is the same as Vancouver style, according to ICMJE Recommendations updated January 2024. ICMJE established the original Vancouver style.
