TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinical and research searching on the wild side
T2 - Exploring the veterinary literature
AU - Alpi, Kristine M.
AU - Stringer, Elizabeth
AU - DeVoe, Ryan S.
AU - Stoskopf, Michael
PY - 2009/7
Y1 - 2009/7
N2 - Zoological medicine furthers the health and wellbeing of captive and free-ranging wild animals. Effective information retrieval of the zoological medicine literature demands searching multiple databases, conference proceedings, and organization websites using a wide variety of keywords and controlled vocabulary. Veterinarians, residents, students, and the librarians who serve them must have patience for multiple search iterations to capture the majority of the available knowledge. The complexities of thorough literature searches are more difficult for nondomestic animal clinical cases and research reviews as demonstrated by three search requests involving poisonous snakes, a gorilla, and spiders. Expanding and better disseminating the knowledgebase of zoological medicine will make veterinary searching easier.
AB - Zoological medicine furthers the health and wellbeing of captive and free-ranging wild animals. Effective information retrieval of the zoological medicine literature demands searching multiple databases, conference proceedings, and organization websites using a wide variety of keywords and controlled vocabulary. Veterinarians, residents, students, and the librarians who serve them must have patience for multiple search iterations to capture the majority of the available knowledge. The complexities of thorough literature searches are more difficult for nondomestic animal clinical cases and research reviews as demonstrated by three search requests involving poisonous snakes, a gorilla, and spiders. Expanding and better disseminating the knowledgebase of zoological medicine will make veterinary searching easier.
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U2 - 10.3163/1536-5050.97.3.005
DO - 10.3163/1536-5050.97.3.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 19626142
AN - SCOPUS:67749089306
VL - 97
SP - 169
EP - 177
JO - Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
JF - Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
SN - 1536-5050
IS - 3
ER -