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Database searching - recommended reading

Burrows SC, Tylman V. Evaluating medical student searches of MEDLINE for evidence-based information: process and application of results. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 1999; 87: 471-476.
Funk ME, Reid CA. Indexing consistency in MEDLINE. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 1983; 71: 176-183.
Gevaert R. Zoeken in databanken op CD-ROM en diskette. Antwerpen: Vlaamse Vereniging voor Bibliotheek-, Archief- en Documentatiewezen (VVBAD) 1994: 92 pp.
Greenhalgh T. How to read a paper; the Medline database. British Medical Journal 1997; 315: 180-183.
Haynes RB, McKibbon KA, Fitzgerald D, Guyatt GH, Walker CJ, Sackett DL. How to keep up with the medical literature. V. Access by personal computer to the medical literature. Annals of Internal Medicine 1986; 105: 810-816.
Haynes RB, McKibbon KA, Fitzgerald D, Guyatt GH, Walker CJ, Sackett DL. How to keep up with the medical literature. VI. How to store and retrieve articles worth keeping. Annals of Internal Medicine 1986; 105: 978-984.
Haynes RB, McKibbon KA, Walker CJ, Ryan N, Fitzgerald D, Ramsden MF. Online access to Medline in clinical settings; a study of use and usefulness. Annals of Internal Medicine 1990; 112: 78-84.
Haynes RB, Walker CJ, McKibbon KA, Johnston ME, Willan AB. Performance of 27 MEDLINE systems tested by searches with clinical questions. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 1994; 1: 285-295.
Jacsó P. WinSPIRS: Windows software for SilverPlatter CD-ROMs. Online 1995; 19(Jan/Feb): 74-81.
Lee R. How to find information - life sciences; a guide to searching in published sources. London: British Library 1992: 19 pp. (Science, Technology and Industry).
Lowe HJ, Barnett GO. Understanding and using the Medical Subject Headings (MESH) vocabulary to perform literature searches. Journal of the American Medical Association 1994; 271: 1103-1108.
Mouillet E. Language barriers and bibliographic retrieval effectiveness: use of MEDLINE by French-speaking end users. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 1999; 87: 451-455.
Pratt GF. A brief hitchhiker's guide to Medline. Database 1994; 17(Feb): 41-46.
Schoonbaert D. SPIRS, WinSPIRS, and OVID: a comparison of three MEDLINE on CD-ROM interfaces. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 1996; 84: 63-70.
Schoonbaert D. Automatic mapping of free-text to thesaurus: good policy? Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 1997; 85: 439-440.
Schoonbaert D. De integratie van zelf samengestelde databases in SilverPlatters Electronic Reference Library (ERL) - ook kleinschalig een succes. Bibliotheek- en Archiefgids 1999; 75: 195-206.

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