Module 5

Question 1

Primary Sources

Answer 1

In the sciences and health sciences, original data or reports of results from original research presented by the people who conducted the research

Question 2

Scientific publishing cycle:

Answer 2

A model describing how research becomes disseminated in publications

Question 3

Manuscript

Answer 3

A scholarly paper prior to its publication

Question 4

Journal

Answer 4

A collection of scholarly articles published together in an issue

Question 5

Peer Review

Answer 5

When experts and editors rigorously evaluate a manuscript submitted for publication

Question 6

Database

Answer 6

A collection of records for scholarly and nonscholarly sources organized in a searchable interface

Question 7

Bibliographic record:

Answer 7

A record organizing and presenting citation information, abstracts, and descriptive terms such as keywords and subject headings for a published source

Question 8

Subject headings

Answer 8

Formal descriptive terms used by databases, including CINAHL, to describe the content of a source

Question 9

Secondary sources

Answer 9

Commentaries, summaries, reviews, or interpretations of primary sources; often written by those not involved in the original work

Question 10

Scholarly literature:

Answer 10

Literature, including journals, journal articles, and sometimes other sources such as books and theses, that go through a peer review or rigorous editorial review process

Question 11

CINAHL

Answer 11

A bibliographic database indexing journals and other resources focused on nursing and allied health

Question 12

PubMed:
medical subject headings (MeSH):

Answer 12

PubMed: A freely available large biomedical bibliographic database providing access to mainly peer-reviewed journal articles produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine
medical subject headings (MeSH): Key topical words used to index art

Question 13

Joanna Briggs Institute and Cochrane Library

Answer 13

both the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) and the Cochrane Library are considered by many to be gold-standard sources of systematic reviews due to their commitment to producing evidence through strict processes

Question 14

PsycINFO

Answer 14

PsycINFO is a database produced by the American Psychological Association
The database primarily includes journal article abstracts from nearly 2,500 psychological journals in addition to a smaller fraction of content from psychological books and dissertations.

Question 15

Google Scholar

Answer 15

Google Scholar defines scholarship broadly, including a variety of documents and items that other databases do not include. This database includes a wide selection of journals across many disciplines and works with many different publishers to populate it.

Question 16

Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP)

Answer 16

a database that brings together high-level synthesized evidence to inform EBP. The database provides access to records for publications, such as systematic reviews, meta-analyses, practice guidelines, and governmental reports from around the world, and then uses an algorithm to order and present the results

Question 17

a database that brings together high-level synthesized evidence to inform EBP. The database provides access to records for publications, such as systematic reviews, meta-analyses, practice guidelines, and governmental reports from around the world, and then uses an algorithm to order and present the results

Answer 17

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (United States)
• National Institutes of Health (United States)
• Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (United States)
• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: NICE (United Kingdom)
• National health associations such as American Heart Association and American Cancer Association

Question 18

Interlibrary loan:

Answer 18

A service that retrieves or borrows journal articles or other resources from another institution

Question 19

Boolean operators

Answer 19

A set of terms that act as commands for connecting parts of a search strategy such that a database combines terms in the proper order

Question 20

Truncation

Answer 20

A technique of shortening a word and adding a wildcard symbol to tell a database to add variant endings to the word in a search
“OR”

Question 21

Keywords
Controlled Vocabularies

Answer 21

1. Common words or phrases used to describe a concept
2. A listing of standardized terms, often arranged from general to specific, used by databases to describe what an article or source is about

Question 22

Building Search Strategies: Steps

Answer 22

Step 1: State the PICOT Question
Step 2: State the Concepts in Keyword Form
Step 3: Select Two to Three Databases
Step 4: Develop a List of Synonyms
Steps 5 and 6: Use Boolean Operators to Create a Search Statement and Search the Database

Question 23

Citation chasing
Fields

Answer 23

citation chasing: Using a reference list to identify sources of evidence
field: An individual element of information in a database
- When constructing the databases, publishers and database producers label pieces of a citation using fields that can be accessed through a dropdown menu within an advanced search interface

Question 24

Limiters

Answer 24

A field used in a database and presented as a way to quickly sift through results based on particular attributes

Question 25

Citing articles in the text of assignments and other projects is how we provide appropriate credit to others’ work. This requires understanding the differences between quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing material.
Paraphrasing:

Answer 25

Restating another’s ideas or words in your own words after fully understanding the ideas

Question 26

Copyright:

Answer 26

A set of legal rights given to a creator of a work providing ability to publish, distribute, reproduce, perform, and make derivatives of the work