Last updated January 2012 by Mick Draper

Library Tour and Seminar for FHS Lateral Entry Students

The Library Home

The University of Adelaide Library has a web site at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library
To view the site right click on the link and open in a new window or new tab.

The site provides many options for finding information held by the Library.
Two options on the top level of this site are Summon, and the Library's Catalogue.

Summon
Summon is a 'discovery tool' that can search the catalogue, and many of the library's electronic resources. Summon will find individual online journal articles by title.

The Catalogue

The Catalogue will help you to find books, journals, and other items in the Library Collections.
Before you can use the Catalogue you need to be able to tell the difference between books, chapters in books, and journal articles.
This is because these different sorts of citations are found on The Catalogue using different methods.

Here is an example of a reading list.

Steenberghe, D. van 2004. Breath malodor : a step by step approach. Copenhagen : Quintessence
Boon, Nicholas A. (ed) 2006. Davidson’s principles & practice of medicine. 20th ed Edinburgh ; Sydney : Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone
Glasziou, P 2007 Designing monitoring studies (in) Price, C., & R. Christenson Evidence-based laboratory medicine 2nd ed pp 83-93
Rubin, G.J. et al 2009. Public perceptions, anxiety, and behaviour change in relation to the swine flu outbreak: cross sectional telephone survey. BMJ 339(7713) 144-156

Identifying Books

The first item in the reading list is a book

You can identify a citation to a book by the presence of:

          author(s) or editor(s), date,  book title,
          publisher, and place of publication.

Identifying Chapters in a Book

You can identify a citation to a chapter in a book by the presence of:

the word 'in'
before the title of the book
also
the chapter author(s), chapter title
and details of the book itself

When you search for a chapter in the Catalogue, you need to search for
the book containing the chapter,
not the chapter itself.

Sometimes lecturers have permission to copy chapters or other parts of books.
These are made available to students on MyUni.

Identifying Journal Articles

You can identify a citation to a journal article by the presence of:

author(s) of the article, publication date, title of the article (usually),
title of the journal, journal volume number (and sometimes the issue number), pages of the article

and the absence of

publisher and place of publication

Known Book Title Searches

Using Summon
More than 1 million University of Adelaide catalogue items and more than 500 million other items are available through Summon.

Click on Summon Advanced Search

Enter the book title enclosed in double quotes in the With these words in the title box.

Summon isn't case sensitive, and it ignores punctuation.
If the title is long you can truncate it by leaving out whole words at the start or the end of the title.

eg Neuroanatomy through clinical cases

Summon displays the results in 'Relevance' order.

You can refine searches by using the boxes in the side bar on the left of the screen.

You can hover your cursor over the title to get a few extra details, but clicking on the title will take you to the detailed Catalogue record for a book.

Finding Books in the Catalogue By Title

To use the Catalogue, left click once on the Catalogue tab at the top of the Library home.

Click on the pull down menu at Keyword (search engine style)
Click on Title (omit beginning 'The', 'A' etc)

Using Title search is usually the best method of searching for books in the Catalogue.

Enter the title in the Search for: box

enter the title in full

human physiology from cells to systems

or truncate the title

human physiology from cells

but don't leave out words

human physiology cells systems

Do leave out the word A, An, or The if it is the first word of the title.
The Catalogue isn't case sensitive so it doesn't matter if you use capital letters.
The Catalogue ignores punctuation including foreign language diacritics.

Click on the Search button.

The result appears.
If more that one book has the same title The Catalogue will show you a screen of all the items with that title.

One way to help find the edition you want is to sort the list.
Click in the Sort by box and choose an option.

Click on the highlighted text of the edition you want.

Scroll down the screen to find the location, call number and status.

Requests can be placed on books that are out on loan.
Instructions on how to request a book that is on loan

Click on New Search at the top or bottom of the Catalogue screen.

Searching by Author Names

In the Search for box, enter the author's last name, a space and first initial.
Click on the triangle at the end of the by: box.

In the by box, click on Author-last name first.

If the Library has items by that author then the author's name will appear in an alphabetical list.
The Catalogue will also indicate how many items it holds by the author.
Click on the author's name to see the list of items.

Click on the title of any item you want to see in more detail.

Finding a Chapter in a Book

Using Summon
Do you know if this is a chapter in an electronic book?
If yes, then do you know the title of the chapter?
If you do, you can enter the chapter title into Summon Advanced search.
Use double quotes around the title of the chapter or a phrase in the chapter title.

If you don't know the chapter title then you can search for the title of the book or the author of the book in Summon.
.

Using the Catalogue
Always begin by searching for the title or editor of the book in which the chapter or essay appears.
To find Glasziou, P 2007 Designing monitoring studies (in) Price, C., & R. Christenson Evidence-based laboratory medicine 2nd ed pp 83-93

you can use title search, or author search as above to find the book. Remember to look for the book title or book author not the chapter title or chapter author

Once you have found the book scroll down to find the location and call number of the book.

This gives you the information you need to find the book.
Opening it at page 83 will find the chapter.

Finding eBook Chapters using The Catalogue

Herman, M & Keaveny, A.P. 2008. Organ Transplantation in D. Walsh Palliative Medicine. Saunders, PART IV – Palliative Care and General Medicine
SECTION A – Complex Illnesses.

Again search for the book title [or author(s)] and when the electronic book appears search the contents and click on the chapter you want.

Click on the hypertext link.

Click on the link to the ebook.

Click on the section you want.

Click on the chapter.

Journal Title Searches

Electronic Journals

Finding the article

Kilarski, W.W. et al 2009. Biomechanical regulation of blood vessel growth during tissue vascularization Nature Medicine 15(6) 657 - 664.

Using Summon
Just click on Advanced search and then enter the title or part of the title of the article in the With these words in the title box using double quotes.

This should produce a single title.
If more than one citation appears check which one you want.
Click on the Full text icon.

Sometimes clicking on the full text icon will take you straight to the article.
At other times you may be taken to an article linker screen.
Click on the link to the article in Article Linker.

You can search for the titles of journals (not the titles of articles) using the Catalogue.
Type the full title, or truncated title of the journal into the Search for: box.
Click on the triangle at the end of the by box, or click within the box.
Click on Journal or Newspaper Title.
Don't use abbreviated journal titles, and don't include the, a, or an if it's the first word of the journal title.

When the Catalogue has completed the search click on the electronic resource version of the Catalogue record.

Click on the Link to e-Resource

Click on one of the links.
In this case to find the most recent articles click on the link that goes 'to present'.

You can find the archives to locate the issue and then the article you want.

Alternatively you can use the Search option found on most journal sites to find the article you want.

Using eJournals A-Z
Click on eJournals A-Z under quick links on the Library Home.

Click on the E-Journals Only tab if it isn't already selected.

Use the drop down menu for the search box to find an appropriate search option.
Enter your journal title.
Click on Search.

Printed Journals

Many older volumes of journals and a few recent journal titles are still collected by the library in print format.
Search for the title using Journal or Newspaper Title in the by: box

You'll need to find location, call number, and check the Library Has section in the Catalogue to find out which volumes of the print journal are held.

Joint Store
Less used books and journals are stored at the Flinders University campus.
This material can be retrieved for you to use.
Details of how to do this are available here

Requesting items from Joint Store

The Catalogue will tell you if particular books or journal volumes are in the Store.

Searching by Topic

A search on the effect of magnesium sulphate on blood pressure in venules might be placed in a grid like the one below.
You can use any piece of paper to sort out your logic.

Let's begin with the terms in the left hand column of the grid.

Because we want any item that includes any one or more of the terms in the left hand column, we join them using OR logic.

We want to search magnesium sulphate and magnesium sulfate as phrases. To do this in Summon we enclose the phrases in double quotes.

The result of the first column becomes

("magnesium sulphate" OR mgso4 OR "magnesium sulfate")

Parentheses around the terms ensures that the logic inside the parentheses is done before the logic outside.

Because we want items that have any one or more of the terms blood pressure OR blood pressures as phrases, the second column becomes

("blood pressure" OR "blood pressures")

We also want to search venules or venule. We can use the truncation symbol * to do this

venule*

We can't use truncation inside double quotes in Summon.

We want a search that has all three search concepts so these are joined using AND logic.

("magnesium sulphate" OR mgso4 OR "magnesium sulfate") AND ("blood pressure" OR "blood pressures") AND venule*

Use Refine your search to limit your results to full text online peer reviewed articles published since 2007.

Citing References
When you use information from books and journal articles in your essays and other assignments, you must acknowledge this.
You must give credit to the authors you quote by citing them in a bibliography (list of citations) at the end of your assignment. This way you will maintain your academic integrity.

The University of Adelaide has a document to help you with making sure that you reach the appropriate standards for acknowledging other authors' work.
Avoiding Plagiarism by Helene Hipp & Ursula McGowan from the Uni of Adelaide Language and Learning Service

Citation Styles
There are many citation styles that can be used for bibliographies.
You should always follow the citation style recommended by the Medical Learning and Teaching Unit.
If there is no recommended style you should choose an internationally accepted style.

Here are some links to styles
Right click on the link below and open in a new window to view the instructions for writing manuscripts (journal articles, books etc) using the
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts style.
From International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.

On the link below right click and open in a new window to see how to cite references under the Uniform Requirements.
This is known as the Vancouver style.
From Monash University Library

University of Adelaide's version of Harvard referencing guide
University of South Australia's Examples of referencing using Harvard
There isn't a single standard version of the Harvard system.

Chicago Manual of Style Online (16th edition)

The Library has some books on the topic of citation styles

The Chicago manual of style.
808.02 U58.15
1 copy in Reference, 1 copy in Main Collection

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
808.06615 A512p.5
Copies in Reference, Reserve, and Main Collections

Other Resources on Scientific Writing for Medicine
Uni of Adelaide Library Catalogue search for items on this topic

If you have questions about scientific writing please contact the Uni of Adelaide's Writing Centre

Now you should know

Where to find books and printed journals in the Barr Smith Library
How to identify books, book chapters, and journal articles in reading lists
How to use Summon and the Library Catalogue to find known items
How to use Summon to find items on a particular topic
Your obligations in citing sources
Where to find information on citation styles

Other Barr Smith Library Resource Guides

• Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
• Anatomical Sciences
• Dentistry
• General Practice
• Medicine
• Mental health/Psychiatry
• Nursing
• Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
• Orthopaedics and Trauma
• Paediatrics
• Pathology
• Pharmacology
• Physiology
• Psychology
• Public Health
• Rural Health
• Surgery

Library Exercise
You can do this exercise in pairs, and show me the results of your work by presenting the books to me on level 2 South.
Find the call number of the book you have chosen, then go to the Library shelves on level 2 to find the book.

Find one of these books on the Library shelves

Lisowski, F. P 2004 A guide to dissection of the human body 2nd ed. Singapore : Singapore University Press and World Scientific Pub

Anderson, H., J. Blundell, & M. Chiva 2002 Food selection : from genes to culture
Levallois-Perret : Danone Institute

Bull, P & R. Clarke 2007. Diseases of the ear, nose and throat 10th ed Malden, Mass. : Blackwell

Hodges, J.R. (ed) 2001. Early-onset dementia : a multidisciplinary approach
New York : Oxford University Press

Teichman, J.M.H. (ed) 2001. 20 common problems in urology
New York : McGraw-Hill

Schneider, J.M., & S.K. Patrick 2006. Obstetrics and gynecology : PreTest self-assessment and review 11th ed
New York ; Sydney : McGraw-Hill

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Find one of these journal articles in electronic format

Mortensson A,  Elisabet Stener-Victorin B, Gunnar Wallin 2008. Acupuncture versus subcutaneous injections of sterile water as treatment for labour pain. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica 87(2) 171-177

Burns, C. & S. Freil 2007 It's time to determine the cost of a healthy diet in Australia Australian and New Zealand journal of public health 31(4) 363-65

Bos, M.J. et al 2007 Incidence and prognosis of transient neurological attacks. JAMA 298(24) 2877-2885

McCall, P.J., & A. Lenhart 2008 Dengue control. Lancet Infectious diseases 8(1) 7-9

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Finding Journal Articles by Subject

To find journal articles on a particular topic it's best to use a database. While Summon, Google and Google Scholar have some value, these aren't as efficient as using a well organised database of medical citations such as as PubMed.
PubMed is a free database that has more than 21 million citations. Most citations in PubMed come with abstracts, and many have links to the full text of the article.

PubMed

You can find the Uni of Adelaide customised version of PubMed on the Library Home

Today you can right click on this link to PubMed
Then open in another window or another tab

Most of the citations to journal articles in PubMed have subject headings added to help you find them.
These subject headings are called MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)

PubMed has an index of MeSH that you can use to find the most appropriate subject headings and to search for article citations that include these subjects.
Under More Resources on the PubMed Home click on MeSH Database.

We'll run a simple search for citations of articles on the link between COPD and osteoporosis.
Type copd in the MeSH Search box and click on the Go button.

The MeSH appears even though we didn't type in the exact term.

Click on Add to Search Builder.

Clear copd from the MeSH database search box and type in osteoporosis.

Click in the box to the left of the Osteoporosis link.

Click on Add to search builder.
Make sure that these terms are going to be joined by AND logic.

Click on Search PubMed.

The citations appear.

The default display is a summary of the citations that includes
Article title, author(s), publication details, a PubMed identification number for the citation and a link to related (similar) articles.

To view citations in more detail, click on Display Settings in the top left of the results, or the arrow next to the link.

Click on Abstract, not Abstract (text) then on the Apply button.

Most PubMed citations include an abstract.

You can view the subject headings of those citations with MeSH added by clicking on the link to MeSH.

If a citation has a Uni of Adelaide Online icon, you can click on the icon to view the full text of the article.
These icons appear only if you are using the customised version of PubMed.

Just because a citation doesn't have a Uni of Adelaide Online icon, it doesn't mean we don't have the journal article. We may have a print copy, or even an electronic version.
To check type the full journal title into the Library Catalogue, or the article title into Summon.
You can find the full journal title by placing your mouse cursor over the abbreviated PubMed title. Don't click. The full title will appear for a while.

Not all citations in PubMed have MeSH added.
Citations to recent articles might not include MeSH.
To find citations without MeSH I recommend searching in the titles and abstracts of all citations for appropriate terms.

To help with finding the best terms and getting the search logic right I recommend using a logic grid.

Write down the concepts you are looking for and below each concept write down synonyms or alternative terms.
As we already have the MeSH for these concepts we can start with them.

Notice that I've added [mh] after each term.
This tells PubMed to search only for subject headings.
Next add terms that are likely to be used by authors in their titles and abstracts for each concept.

Notice that I've added [tiab] to the new terms.
This tells PubMed to search for the terms only in the titles or abstracts of citations.

I've also added the truncation symbol * to osteoporos*
This searches all the terms with the the word stem to the left of the *.
This will find osteoporosis OR osteoporoses in the titles and abstracts of citations.

A search on clot* would potentially find citations including clot OR clotted OR clotting OR clots etc

To help with finding terms that might be used in titles and abstracts I like to look at the Entry Terms provided by the MeSH database.
Returning to the MeSH pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive scroll down the screen to view these terms.

Now check the Entry Terms for osteoporosis and add appropriate terms to the grid.

Check any more specific MeSH and their Entry Terms.

Link all the terms in each column together using OR logic and enclose all these terms linked by OR in a set of round brackets
Join the terms from the different columns using AND logic.

The search above becomes

(pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive[mh] OR chronic obstructive pulmonary disease[tiab] OR copd[tiab] OR chronic obstructive airway disease[tiab] OR coad[tiab] OR chronic obstructive lung disease[tiab] OR chronic airflow obstruction*[tiab] OR chronic airflow obstruction*[tiab] OR chronic bronchitis[tiab]) AND (osteoporosis[mh] OR osteoporos*[tiab] OR bone loss*[tiab])

Always use capitals for OR & AND.

In PubMed AND and OR logic is processed from left to right. Logic statements inside round brackets are always processed before logic outside the brackets.

Now you can copy and paste this search into the PubMed database (not the MeSH Database)

Related Articles

Clicking on the Related Articles link will other articles that PubMed considers to be similar to the parent article.

For more detailed information on using PubMed you can look at

Barr Smith Library Basic PubMed tutorial includes using the EndNote bibliographic management software that you probably won't need as an undergraduate. (from Uni of Adelaide Library)
Using PubMed in Evidence Based Dentistry A more detailed tutorial on searching PubMed. (from University of Adelaide Library)
The PubMed Tutorial The official PubMed Tutorial (this is quite long but you can use the index to search for particular sections)

For more databases look at the Health Sciences databases.
This includes the short essay Which database should I use?

How to read a journal article is an essay that helps you decide whether the article you are reading is of value.