UX Caucus Database Tips

 ProQuest export limits got you down?  Did you know that ProQuest provides an export feature to help folks working on large literature review projects, like scoping reviews and systematic reviews, IF you (or your administrator) know about the setting!?  Administrators:  Log into the admin module and enable the option under the "User Interface" section:  Under the "My Research" section of the "Interface Settings, " you can enable the " Search results export functionality"  Searchers: Once the setting has been enabled, searchers will need to set up a " My Research" account to request a bulk export. After running your search while logged into your "My Research" account, you will see an "Export Results" button appear. Note: this only works for <10,000 results! recently increased to 20,000 results!     Don't forget to include "Abstracts "  The process for accessing the exported file is quite diff...

Coauthored by Michelle R. Demetres, MLIS (mrd2006@med.cornell.edu) Update (October 18, 2022): This guidance is out of date, as bulk-tagging of large import sets in Covidence is currently not possible. Instead of importing references obtained by snowballing into the original Covidence project, we recommend creating a separate Covidence project for the new references and de-duplicating the already-screened references in EndNote prior to import. If you conduct snowballing (AKA citation searching or reference chasing) as part of your systematic review process, the PRISMA 2020 flow diagram  may be causing you headaches. In the new flow diagram, snowballed results are reported in the right hand side of the diagram, "Identification of studies via other methods." Michelle Demetres of the Samuel J. Wood Library at Weill Cornell Medicine has contributed this tip on how to track snowballed references in Covidence. The team must be completely finished with their first round of full tex...

UPDATE: Thanks to Layal Hneiny for the screenshots and instructions for Word (Office on the Web)!    Have you ever run into the "unsupported characters" error message in Ovid MEDLINE?     In more complex searches, it can be especially frustrating to pinpoint the exact character that isn't supported. This is a simple search example to highlight one common situation that will trigger this error message: Curly or Smart Quotes. At first glance, both of these phrases appear to be the same: “drug addiction”.ti,ab. OR "Substance Use Disorder".ti,ab. But upon closer inspection you can see that the quotation marks are slightly different: The drug phrase has curly or smart quotes around it and the substance phrase has straight quotes .    Ovid MEDLINE does not support the use of curly or smart quotes.    This is a simplified version of a search that hit my inbox last week. I was working with a faculty member in a shared Google doc. She had downloaded the ...

This tip was submitted by Kathryn Vanderboll (University of Michigan):  In Ovid MEDLINE, using adjacency with .kw. does not work the way you (probably) want - use .kf. instead! While searching (surg* adj (educat* or instruct* or learn* or teach* or train*)).kw., our team couldn't figure out why our sentinel article tagged with with the author supplied keyword "surgical teaching" wasn't showing up. Through trial and error, we learned that .kw. adjacency only works between lines . That is, how close keywords are to each other on different lines. For example, (surg* adj teach*).kw. picks up articles with keyword headings like:  But does NOT pick up articles that might have keyword headings like:   To use adjacency searching within a single keyword heading, you'll need to use .kf. The Ovid help documentation notes : "The Keyword Heading (KW) field contains the Keyword Headings assigned by authors. Keyword Headings are the author keywords. To retrieve every Key...

Depending on how an institution has adjusted their EBSCO database admin-level settings, the default search behavior may not work as expected. In this example, I'm highlighting CINAHL's Search Modes. You can adjust the Search Mode from the Advanced Search screen, toggling between "Boolean/Phrase" / "Find all my search terms" / "Find any of my search terms" / " SmartText Searching." My institution has "Boolean/Phrase" set as the default Search Mode.     This setting impacts the search results in a significant way, especially for novice users that may be less likely to add Boolean to a single search line.   Here you can see a simple three-word search S1 (ginger pregnancy nausea ) run in the "Boolean/Phrase" mode only returns 23 results. Most users would assume that the database would automatically AND the individual terms together, but in the "Boolean/Phrase" mode, this is not the case. For running multi...