Psychology Articles:
PsycINFO
Select PsycINFO,
and type in your key search terms.
You can use the same topic and search terms that you used
for Step 1. In a separate search box, type the word empirical
study and select the Form/Content Type field
option from the pull-down menu on the right. As soon as
you select Form/Content Type from the pull-down list,
a link indicating Browse Content
Types will appear on the right.
NOTE: You may also want to select Journal in the
Document Type box to limit your results to just journals.As
soon as you select Document Type from the pull-down
list, a link indicating Browse
Document Types will appear on the right. You
may also select Peer-reviewed journal as a Document
Type. Another way of limiting your search to only Peer-reviewed
articles is by checking the box that says Limit search
to peer-reviewed articles from the Advanced Search Screen
Education Articles:
ERIC
Select ERIC (ProQuest),
and type your key search terms in the search boxes.
You can use the same topic and search terms
that you used for Step 1. On the results page, To limit the results to research-related
materials, on the right side of the page, click on Document Type. Mark or check the include box for the document type 143 and
click the apply button. NOTE: You
may also
want to select
Scholarly Journals in the Narrow Results By section to limit your results
to just journals.
Medical Articles:
MEDLINE
For MEDLINE (FirstSearch), and type in your key search terms.
Limit your search by selecting Clinical Trial, Randomized Controlled
Trial, or Meta Analysis in the Article Type Phrase pull-down
box.
For MEDLINE (Ovid), after you are done constructing
your search, click on limit. From the Publication Type,
select Clinical Trial (this will automatically include all
four phases), Controlled Clinical, Randomized Controlled
Trial, or Meta Analysis. Note Research is NOT a Publication
Type in MEDLINE (OVID), however you can type in 'research'
as a MeSH term and combine it with your other search
terms.
CINAHL
For CINAHL (EBSCOHost),
select your key terms (preferably as MH Exact Subject Heading
or as MW Word in Major Heading or
MM Exact Major Heading), construct your search and then click
on limit. You can select from Clinical Trial, Research or
Systematic
Review.
