Health Libraries Australia Guidelines
Live Literature Searches
Health Libraries Australia Guidelines
Live Literature Searches
This is a draft of the final content, September 27th, 2021.
For approval by the Committee and to send to ALIA for publication in their format and on their platform.
Please contact Sarah Hayman with any questions or comments.
Looking for evidence to support best practice in line with HLA Guidelines for Health libraries?
These searches have been designed to find literature relating to key areas covered by the Guidelines.
Health libraries in general
· Everything on Health Libraries
Searches aligned to the four Guidelines Areas
· Organisation, Philosophy and Governance
· Do not include Heath Literacy specifically
· Information Service Provision
Searches on other key topics
· Health Libraries' Contribution to Patient Care
· Health Libraries Standards and Quality Improvement
Search in key health librarianship journals
· All articles from specific journal set indexed in PubMed
Make your own topic search
· See information and example below
Preferred Browser: Any modern browser (Chrome, Firefox etc.) but not Internet Explorer (it may not handle the long links)
Full Text Option 1: If your Library subscribes to BrowZine install the Chrome extension LibKey Nomad for much easier access to full text PDFs
Full Text Option 2: If your Library uses PubMed OTool then open up PubMed (using the special URL) in another tab before using the links on this page
The following key journals specialising in health librarianship and information management are automatically included in the base search (all articles from these journals that are indexed in PubMed are retrieved).
Also included:
(note: this journal is not fully indexed for Medline. It has been included because it is assumed that any articles that are in Medline/PubMed will be of relevance to the health sector).
The following important journal is not currently indexed for Medline/PubMed and therefore cannot be retrieved by the search. When it is indexed, the issn (ISSN 2652-5453) can be added to the search strategy.
Please contact us to suggest any other key journals in the field that should be added to the base search strategy.
Search here for all articles from the above list of journals. This could make a useful search alert, if you would like a regular update sent in your email.
You can very easily create your own topic search within the set of results from the base search for all references in PubMed relating to health libraries.
Click here to run the base health libraries search.
Follow the link on the PubMed search results page to Advanced.
Enter your own search query into the Query Box and run the search. Then combine your query and the previous base search query with AND. This will return the subset of results matching your own query.
If your topic is Health Libraries and Return on investment, you might frame a search such as:
Investments[mh] OR "Costs and Cost Analysis"[mh] OR return on investment[ti] OR value[ti] OR (return*[ti] AND (cost*[ti] OR investment[ti]))
using a combination of MeSH headings and some natural language text words to pick up non-indexed items (in this example confined to title field only).
Run that search, add the query to the query box, then add the base search for everything on heath libraries, using the AND operator to combine them.
You can also create your own topic search using one of the guideline area searches, if you want to target a narrower area.
If your topic is Space planning for health libraries, you might frame a search such as:
Facility Design and Construction[mh] OR Interior Design and Furnishings[mh] OR space[tw]
using a combination of MeSH headings and some natural language text words to pick up non-indexed items.
Run that search, add the query to the query box, then run the search on Guideline area 1 Planning and Strategy, and use the AND operator in the Advanced Search Builder to combine the two searches[SH1] .
These PubMed live searches have been developed, tested and endorsed as part of the Guidelines for Australian Health Libraries project, undertaken by Health Libraries Australia, to revise the national guidelines.
The searches provide up-to-date results for topics aligned to the guidelines. They are intended to provide current evidence from PubMed to support best practice in Australian health libraries.
The searches have been created by a librarian with expertise in searching for evidence on health. They have undergone extensive internal testing, but have not been developed as objectively derived and validated search filters. Each search has undergone consultation and review by a panel of health librarians with searching expertise and knowledge of the needs and interests of the targeted audience.
Audiences for the searches:
Primarily, librarians and other information professionals working in Australian health libraries and associated information services.
May also be of interest to researchers, educators and policy makers, working in health information and related areas.
Health librarians are encouraged to use the searches and to make them available to clients and colleagues through promotion and linking from websites, resources and user guides.
The searches target information on topics of relevance to best practice in Australian health libraries and information services. They have been designed for this purpose and are NOT intended to be comprehensive. They aim to provide high specificity (relevance) so that results returned will be of immediate use. The searches are not formally validated and cannot be claimed to be comprehensive, but will be useful as a starting point (and source of search terms) for searching for research purposes.
The searches are provided in PubMed, as a platform that is freely available and a source of high quality health evidence. We encourage users to send any comments or suggestions on improving the searches, and to build on them where necessary, using their own terms.
FUTURE TOPICS
Would you like to see these topics expanded? If so please email suggestions of topics for inclusion to Sarah Hayman.[SH3]
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The text of these searches are provided under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
CONTACT US
We welcome feedback and suggestions about the searches. Please send comments to Sarah Hayman.