In most databases, the FIND IT icon will often appear within an item record. Clicking the FIND IT icon will take you to a catalog page showing a list of full-text options.
You can also search FIND IT directly.
If the full-text is not available, you will see a heading that says, "Request a copy from Interlibrary Loan." Click on "Welch Medical Library Borrowers" link to request the article free of charge (available for Hopkins affiliates).
You can also submit an Interlibrary Loan request manually.
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases in medicine and other healthcare specialties provided by the Cochrane Collaboration and other organizations. At its core is the collection of Cochrane Reviews, a database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses which summarizes and interprets the results of medical research, which are often considered high-quality in terms of quality and reporting. The Cochrane Library also contains CENTRAL, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials.
In addition to their databases, the Cochrane Library offers:
The Cochrane Colloquium offers some free trainings on evidence-based methodologies, as well as free access to two publications outlining systematic review methodological expectations.
Keywords can be generated by:
From the Search Manager tab, you can use field tags to specify where the database looks for the search term. In Cochrane, first type the search term and then the field tag preceded by a colon. e.g. "Cardiology":ti looks for cardiology in the title
The Cochrane Library will display your search in tabs by systematic reviews and clinical trials. You can also click on the filter icon next to your search to limit by year.
In the Cochrane Library you can use a * at the root of a word to find multiple endings. For example:
You can also use a ? as a wildcard to search for letter variants within a word (e.g. wom?n finds women and woman)
Terms with multiple spellings
Use the wildcard character with the NEXT operator to match all variations of a term. Note: Use NEAR between a word ending in "'s" and another following word.
Terms with spelling variations that include diphthongs should be searched with a wildcard character to ensure that all forms of a term are matched. Some more common terms with diphthongs such as "haemorrhage" are automatically matched to their variant spellings through stemming.
Accented characters
For all fields except Author, accented characters are not matched by their equivalent unaccented form. To match accented characters use the following options: 1) Use the wildcard characters (* or ?) for a broad match, 2) if the term is displayed on a page you are viewing, copy and paste it to the search box, 3) select the term from a list of accented characters. If entering an accented term in the search box, also include the unaccented version with an OR operator to match all cases.
Wildcard truncation
Use an asterisk (*) to search for multiple characters before, within, or after a search string. A question mark can be used to search for a single character.
To save searches and create alerts in the Cochrane Library, you must first create an account.