1. I have found the abstract (summary) of a really good article and I have the full reference (volume and page numbers) – where do I go to find the full text?
2. I have to find information on the overuse of medication, which database should I use to find articles on the topic?
3. Google gives me loads of irrelevant sites – biased, commercial – is there an alternative?
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- Ejournal portal to link through to the full-text of articles
- Databases page to find articles on a topic
- Ebooks page for the full text of a large range of electronic textbooks and digests
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Answers:
1. Use the Ejournal Portal on the Library’s website
2. The Medline and Embase databases include articles on biomedical and healthcare topics – see the databases page on the Library’s website
3. Try using Scirus – a search engine which focuses on government, healthcare, academic, technical websites
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