This document provides information about the resources and support available from the Cambridge University Medical Library to assist researchers at different stages of their work. It describes how the library can help with literature searches, reference management, research data management, publishing papers, and increasing the impact of published research. It also gives an example of developing a search strategy for a research question about how tongue muscle development influences feeding in preterm infants.
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Stages of research
Discover Manage
PublishDevelop
Literature review Research process
Research data
Write and
present
Get published
Research impact
Ideas!
Diagram from http://libraryguides.griffith.edu.au/c.php?g=28682&p=176851
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What can the library do to help…..
Discover
Literature review
• Support and/or collaboration with
the search
• Strategy development
• Use of filters and limits
• Database selection / access
• “Translation”
• Updates / current awareness
• Access to full text articles
• NHS ATHENS
• Uni of Cambridge paper & e
• Document delivery service
• Critical appraisal - CASP
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What can the library do to help…..
Manage
Research process
Research data
• Reference management
• Teaching & support
• Endnote / mendeley / zotero etc
• Advice on research data management
• What is the data you need to
record?
• Where will you record it? Where
will you store it?
• How will you record it?
• How will you share it?
• PRISMA
• EQUATOR network
(Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health
Research)
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What can the library do to help…..
Publish
Write and
present
• Support and advice on use of
reference management tools
• Advice on presentation of search
strategy
• Books….
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What can the library do to help…..
Develop
Get published
Research impact
• Advice on Open Access publishing
(if your work is associated with University of
Cambridge)
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• “H” index measurement
• ORCiD
• Improve the visibility of your
research
• Altmetrics
• Citation tracking
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From question to strategy
• Topic – question – strategy
• (but not always necessarily in that order!)
“How does tongue muscle development influence
feeding behaviour in preterm infants?”
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“How does tongue muscle development influence
feeding behaviour in preterm infants?”
P –problem / patient?
I – Intervention?
C – Comparison?
O – Outcome?
From question to strategy
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“How does tongue muscle development influence
feeding behaviour in preterm infants?”
P –preterm infants
I – tongue muscle (development)
C – n/a
O – feeding behaviour
From question to strategy
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“How does tongue muscle development influence
feeding behaviour in preterm infants?”
preterm infants OR “premature infants” OR VLBW OR “very low
birth weight” OR
AND
tongue muscle OR lingual frenum OR tongue web
OR “frenulum of tongue”
AND
feeding behaviour* OR feeding behavior* OR
suck swallow breathe coordination OR nutritive sucking
From question to strategy