Why Search One Database at a Time When You Can Search Everything at Once?
Academic Search Complete | |
attitudes | 354,124 |
football players | 790 |
exercise | 27 |
Atl Health Watch | |
attitudes | 3,380 |
football players | 1 |
exercise | 0 |
CINAHL Complete | |
attitudes | 274,686 |
football players | 61 |
exercise | 11 |
Health Reference Center Academic | |
attitudes | 167,390 |
football players | 24 |
exercise | 4 |
Health Source Consumer | |
attitudes | 6,363 |
football players | 5 |
exercise | 1 |
Health Source Academic | |
attitudes | 65,636 |
football players | 28 |
exercise | 2 |
MEDLINE Complete | |
attitudes | 392,816 |
football players | 91 |
exercise | 23 |
PsycARTICLES | |
attitudes | 23,428 |
football players | 5 |
exercise | 1 |
PubMed | |
attitudes | 591,735 |
football players | 185 |
exercise | 41 |
Search Everything | |
attitudes | 4,015 |
football players | 11,434 |
exercise | 146 |
When doing research in databases, you often need to perform several searches trying different combinations of terms before coming up with a list of good results.
MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity. |
WHAT IS A CONTROLLED VOCABULARY THESAURUS?
A controlled vocabulary thesaurus organizes a database into pre-determined subject terms that everything about that subject falls under. You do not have to guess among a host of terms that are similar in meaning to find relevant articles.
Example: flu
MeSH Subject Term: Influenza, Human
Example: Wheat allergy
MeSH Subject Term: Wheat Hypersensitivity