This book, first published in 1986, provides a comprehensive and detailed look at online biomedical database searching by end users. Experts fully assess the numerous implications of end user searching and synthesize a wide variety of views and successful practices. By examining the types of users, institutional settings, products used, and applications, this important volume probes the specific variations among programs and provides a solid overview of end user searching in the health science field. The volume includes informative chapters on determining content and structure of online educational materials, training the end user, the issues in implementing end user search systems, and much more.
This book, first published in 1986, provides a comprehensive and detailed look at online biomedical database searching by end users. Experts fully assess the numerous implications of end user searching and synthesize a wide variety of views and successful practices.
Part
1. The Environment of End User Searching
1. Overview of End User
Searching in the Health Sciences: An Opinion Paper Winifred Sewell
2. Online
Education for Health Professionals Ellen Brassil Horak
3. Determining Content
and Structure of Online Educational Materials Bonnie Shaw
4. End User
Searching: Implications for Library Planning W. Ellen McDonell
5. End User
Search Systems: An Overview James Shedlock
6. Issues in Mounting a Local
MEDLINE Database Frieda O. Weise and Gary A. Freiburger
7. Personal
Information Management: An Overview Nancy G. Bruce and Anna Therese McGowan
Part
2. End User Searching Programs
8. Training the End User: The Stanford
University Medical Center Experience Gloria A. Linder, Richard A. Lenon,
Valerie Su, Joseph G. Wible and Peter Strangl
9. Teaching End User Searching
in a Health Sciences Center Alice C. Wygant
10. U-Search: A Program to Teach
End User Searching at an Academic Health Sciences Library Vicki L. Glasgow
and Gertrude Foreman
11. Implementing End User Systems at the Massachusetts
General Hospital Health Sciences Libraries Rhonda A. Rios Kravitz and Ellen
R. Westling
12. The BRS/AFTER DARK Search Service in a Health Sciences
Library Marjorie Simon Part
3. The End Users Viewpoint
13. Search Strategy
Outline: An Approach to Assist the Occasional End Searcher George Nowacek and
Robert H. Hodge
14. Physician Searching: A Rural Hospital Experience
Frederick J. Myers
15. Confessions of an End User David N. Newbauer
16. End
User Searching in the Small Hospital Setting Corrine R. McNabb Part
4.
Bibliography and Glossary
17. End User Searching: A Selected Annotated
Bibliography M. Sandra Wood
18. Glossary Compiled by Bonnie Shaw
Sandra M. Wood, Brassil Ellen, Bonnie Snow
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