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| descriptions of studies written by the researchers who conducted them |
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| Secondary source research |
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| descriptions of studies prepared by someone other than the original researcher |
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Ancestry approach
("footnote chasing") |
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| to use the citations from relevant studies to track down earlier research on which the studies are based (the "ancestors") |
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| to find a pivotal early study and to search forward in citation indexes to find more recent studies ("descendents") that cited the key study |
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| studies with more limited distribution, such as conference papers or unpublished reports |
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| a word or phrase that captures the key concepts in your question |
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| subject codes found within indexing systems |
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| a feature that allows you to search for topics using your own keywords, rather than needing to enter a term that is exactly the same as a subject heading in the database |
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| entering a subject heading into the search field |
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| will search for your specific keyword in the text fields of the records in the database (e.g., the title or abstract) |
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| searching for citations for a specific author |
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| a symbol such as "$" or "*", depending on the database and search program; can be used to search for multiple words that share the same root |
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| another useful tool that can be used to expand or restric a search; using "and," "or" |
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| an extremely important electronic database for nurses; it covers references to virtually all English-language nursing and allied health journals, as well as to books, book chapters, dissertations, and selected conference proceedings |
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| free internet access to the MEDLINE database |
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| medical subject headings; controlled vocabulary used by MEDLINE/PubMed to index articles |
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