1st Edition

End User Searching in the Health Sciences

304 Pages

by Routledge

290 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

Valuable to both the health professional and information provider, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed look at online biomedical database searching by end users. Experts fully assess the numerous implications of end user searching and synthesize a wide variety of views and successful practices. By examining the types of users, institutional settings, products used, and applications,... Read more

Contents THE ENVIRONMENT OF END USER SEARCHING

Overview of End User Searching in the Health Sciences: An Opinion Paper
Online Education for Health Professionals
Determining Content and Structure of Online Educational Materials
End User Searching: Implications for Library Planning
End User Search Systems: An Overview
Issues in Mounting a Local MEDLINE Database
Personal Information Management: An Overview
END USER SEARCHING PROGRAMS
Training the End User: The Stanford University Medical Center Experience
Teaching End User Searching in a Health Sciences Center
U-Search: A Program to Teach End User Searching at an Academic Health Sciences Library
Implementing End User Systems at the Massachusetts General Hospital Health Sciences Libraries
The BRS/AFTER DARK Search Service in a Health Sciences Library
THE END USER’S VIEWPOINT
Search Strategy Outline: An Approach to Assist the Occasional End Searcher
Physician Searching: A Rural Hospital Experience
Confessions of an End User
End User Searching in the Small Hospital Setting
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND GLOSSARY
End User Searching: A Selected Annotated Bibliography
Glossary
Index