Showing posts with label databases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label databases. Show all posts

Monday, 10 March 2014

Spotlight on.... the Trip Database

Trip is a free search engine used to find clinical evidence and  research in the fields of medicine, dentistry and health.

Used by health professionals and members of the public alike the interface is easy to use and incorporates some useful tools, such as a PICO search option where you can easily apply your PICO analysis to generate your search results, and the still developing 'Trip Rapid Review' search option which allows you to analyse multiple research articles at once.




From the simple and advanced search options it's also easy to find a whole range of different types of material. Using the tabs along the top of your search results you can limit your search to resources such as clinical evidence, images, videos, educational tools or patient information sites. The options on the right-hand side of your search results also allows you to further limit the clinical evidence results to resource types such as systematic reviews, case reports or guidelines etc. 

With results including evidence from pubmed, the cochrane database and NICE the quality of the search results seems to be high but remember to always use your own judgement and appraise the evidence for yourself. 

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Online Training for Web of Science


Web of Science have recently brought out a new interface. For an introduction to the new Web of Science interface, have a look at their Youtube training channel, where you'll find videos demonstrating how to get the most out of the new features.




Thompson Reuters also offer a range of live webinars and online training via their support pages.