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Keep up to date with hands free searching

D’YouSearch has many great features. It does a multi-disciplinary search of several databases using a simple interface to quickly help you locate the full text you need. It also has several helpful features to help you increase your search efficiency even more.

One such feature is the search alert tool. It can help you find the most current information without having to run new searches. Set up a search alert and D’YouSearch will let you know when new articles appear that match your keywords.

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Find scholarly articles with this one simple click!

Do you need to find quality research articles fast?

Searching Google might bring up millions of hits in seconds, but sorting through the results and figuring out which come from scholarly sources takes time.

Google Scholar can help narrow down your results to publications, but not every result is available for free and some are from journals that are not peer reviewed.

Save yourself time and aggravation by using D’YouSearch. This research tool from the D’Youville Library can help you narrow search results to peer reviewed journal articles with the click of a button.

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Three search strategies for quickly locating quantitative research in CINAHL

One of the best databases for finding quantitative medical research articles is CINAHL. It contains articles of the highest quality with unmatched search options and a large collection of full text medical journals. It is also the most popular database in the D’Youville Library collection.

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Increase your search efficiency by linking Google Scholar to the D’Youville Library collection

Google Scholar is the resource many researchers use when starting an academic paper. It is as easy to use as Google and can find a large number of multidisciplinary articles. One of the main drawbacks of this tool is that many of the articles listed in the results are not available for free.

The full text pdf link appears to the right of each result when free full text is available. Clicking on the article title for the other articles will take you to the publishers website where you will be prompted to pay for the full text. There is usually a fee of about $25 for access the full text from a publisher.

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Finding Research Instrument Examples Made Easy

Exploring examples of how others do research is part of the literature review process. One of the key features that students are often looking for are examples of the measurement tools used in the published medical literature.

Trying to search these sources by research instrument is not easy in most databases. It is even harder if you don’t have a specific research instrument in mind and want to explore what options might be available. The CINAHL database can help you quickly identify and find articles by research instrument used with the CINAHL Subject Heading tool.

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