Health (Nursing, Medicine, Allied Health)

This tutorial from EBSCO demonstrates the basic searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.

This tutorial from EBSCO demonstrates the advanced searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.

This tutorial from EBSCO offers step by step guidance on how to use CINAHL subject headings in the EBSCO interface.

This video (with captions) demonstrates two ways to build a search query in CINAHL, 1) as one long search string, and 2) building block style

The user guide for PubMed includes FAQs and information about basic search, display and navigation functions.

This site contains tutorials, quick tours and learning resources for using PubMed.

This tutorial from the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins details the steps to building a systematic search strategy in PubMed with the building block method, including the use of Boolean operators, truncation, quotations, and field tags.

Learn how to use the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) for expert PubMed searching in this hands-on, self-paced course. Designed for librarians and other expert literature searchers in the health sciences, this course will help you better understand how PubMed uses MeSH and how you can take control of your PubMed topic searches for better precision or recall.

This video (with captions) demonstrates two ways to build a search query in PubMed, 1) as one long search string, and 2) building block style

This PDF from APA PsycNET highlights key aspects of advanced searching in APA PsycNET.
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This help site from PsycNET offers explanations of basic and advanced searching, as well as managing and exporting search results within the APA PsycNET platform.

This PDF from APA highlights key aspects of advanced searching in PsycINFO via the Ovid platform.
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This guide from Wolters Kluwer describes how PsycINFO information is structured in the Ovid interface. Jump down to Advanced Searching for tips on using Ovid syntax and limits to optimize a search strategy.