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• Academic search premier
  
    Examples:
  
  1. DE "HEALTH care reform" limited to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
  2. TI ("health care" or "medical care") and system*
  3. SU ( health care or healthcare ) And TI ( crisis or problem* )
     
     
• Compendex
  (browse or search the thesaurus for terms to use)
  
    Examples:
  
  1. (((health care or medical care) WN TI) AND ((system*) WN TI))
  2. "Computer aided diagnosis" LIMITED TO EI CONTROLLED TERM AND ENGLISH AND TREATMENT TYPE: LITERATURE REVIEW AND "1990-2009"
  3. "medical computing" LIMITED TO MAIN HEADING AND "visual* OR imaging" LIMITED TO SUBJECT/TITLE/ABSTRACT AND BOTH LIMITED TO ENGLISH AND JOURNAL ARTICLE AND "1990-2009"
  4. ((Health care technologies) WN CV) LIMITED TO EI CONTROLLED TERM
     
     
• IEEE Xplore
  
    Examples: (using basic search)
  
  1. Robot* AND medic* (limit to INDEX TERMS and IEEE/IEE Journals)
  2. tissue engineering (in de)
     
     
• PubMed
  ( PubMed Guides, Tips, and Help
  MEDLINE via OVID and other versions of MEDLINE can also be used.
  Which MEDLINE do I use? )
  
    Examples:
  
  1. health care reform limit to english language
     (Note: notice the Reviews tab; change to Citation display and examine the MESH Terms)
     
     
• Web of Science
  (Web of Science can be used in the familiar way of keyword searching for articles, but Web of Science also provides other methods for tracking down useful articles. Want a Tutorial?)
  
    Example:
  
  1. Click on Web of SCIENCE
  2. Select Full Search
  3. Select General Search
  4. Enter the article title Tissue engineering of artificial organs (or The growth of tissue engineering or some other article title of a useful article) in TOPIC and use the pulldown to limit the search to the title.
  5. Click on the article title that is retrieved
  6. Click on "Cited References" to see all the sources used to author this article.
  7. Click on "Times Cited" to see who else used this article as a source.
  8. In the right menu use the "Related Records" feature to see other articles that share the articles references.
  9. Use the "Analyze Results" feature to determine important authors, journals and institutions.