🔎 Discovery Search Help
Articles / Journals / Ebooks / Ebook Chapters / Print Books / Google Scholar / PubMed / UpToDate
TIPS FOR ARTICLES IN DISCOVERY
GETTING FULL TEXT
| Full text articles | Indicated by: View Full Text green button |
| Request article | No full text? Click on the purple Request This button (a very simple form that just requires your name and email) |
SEARCH TIPS
| Phrase: | Use quotes (e.g. "heart disease") |
| Title: | Use title: to search for words in the article title (e.g. title:diabetes) |
| Author: | Use author: (e.g. author:smith) |
| Truncation: | To find word extensions, use the truncation symbol * (e.g. diabet* finds diabetes and diabetic) |
| Boolean: | To find word combinations use Boolean operators (e.g. cat AND dog finds both words; cat OR dog finds either term) |
| Search example: | Example - you need review articles about exercise and depression You could search for title:(exercise AND depress* AND review) |
| Refine Search: | After searching, many filter options appear on the left (e.g. date, subject etc). To use these, hover your mouse and tick the box that appears to select, and then click on the green Apply button further down |
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If you have them, you can find articles using their unique identifiers: |
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| Google Scholar | If you have found a particularly relevant article, it can be useful to see which other articles have cited it. Paste the article title or DOI or PMID (as above) into the Google Scholar tab |
| Databases | If you need additional search functionality then it is better to use individual databases |
TIPS FOR JOURNALS IN DISCOVERY
ADDITIONAL SEARCH OPTIONS
| Specialty search: | Click here, use Browse by subject, and type a discipline area (e.g. cardiology) |
JOURNAL TABLE OF CONTENTS (TOC) ALERTS
| Visual Learner? | Visual instructions on creating journal alerts |
| Create account: | Create an Ovid Discovery account, and remain logged in |
| Search: | Search for journal of interest (via search, browse by letter, or by subject as above). available). Click on Activate Journal Alert link. Not every journal will have this available. |
| Full text access: | If the journal shows access to current (e.g 01/2010 - Current) then full text will be available immediately, via the emailed TOC alert. If the access shown is not to current (e.g. 2010 - 2020) or there is an embargo period, then full text won't be available. However just use the Request This link and the Library will obtain the full text for you. |
TIPS FOR EBOOKS IN DISCOVERY
Access: Onsite, access is immediate. Offsite, you will be prompted to login with your Athens account.
Number: There are more than 8000 ebooks available
Core Titles: Some core titles available include:
TIPS FOR PRINT BOOKS IN DISCOVERY
Register: To borrow print books, complete this quick online Registration (this will also allow you to place holds & suggest purchases as below)
Holds: You can put a hold on books on loan (you need to be logged in to do this - see Register above)
Purchase suggestions: You can suggest print books for the library collection or your area, or ebooks for everyone to access. To do this you need to be logged in (see Register above) and then visit the Purchase Suggestion page
Physical collection: This is located at the Ngarnga Centre. Note that only some of the print books are accessible on the entrance floor. The rest are located in the basement - to gain access to this area, please ask a librarian (office is first left when entering the building)
TIPS FOR GOOGLE SCHOLAR IN DISCOVERY
For a given article of interest, click on Cited By if available. This can be a good way to find related and more recent articles. The Related Articles link is also sometimes useful.
Too many citing articles? You can click on the Search within Citing Articles box and enter relevant terms to narrow down result. You can also limit by publication date on the left.
Like to be alerted when there are new citations for an article of interest (perhaps your own)? Use the Create Alert option on the left.
If using offsite, you will need to log in to your Athens account to access the full text content
TIPS FOR PUBMED IN DISCOVERY
Clicking the Peninsula Health logo will either give you full text of the article or allow you to request it easily (just 3 fields)
If doing offsite, you may need to login with your Athens account to access full text articles
Linkage to Peninsula Health full text is via a custom PubMed URL. If you want to take advantage of this anywhere else use:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?otool=iaupeninhealib
Use PubMed Clinical Queries if you would like easy limits for therapy, prognosis etc
TIPS FOR UPTODATE IN DISCOVERY
Access:
Onsite, access is immediate
Offsite, follow the steps below to access on your phone, laptop etc
- Go to UpToDate (this needs to be done on a Peninsula Health computer)
- Complete the Registration form (orange Register button at top right)
- To access offsite, go to www.uptodate.com and log in using button at top right
- To access on your phone, download the UpToDate app (Android / iOS) and log in
- Every 3 months, an email will prompt you to log into UpToDate (on a Peninsula Health computer) to maintain access
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