生命科学研究人员与Google.ppt

Google for Life Science Researchers: Searching Power* and More Patricia F. Anderson pfa@ /~pfa/pro/8fold/ Content Part 1: Power searching FRIAR Levels of Evidence 8-Fold Path Part 2: Google tools Productivity Communication Collaboration Searching: FRIAR FRIAR model for systematic review searching F = frame your question (usually PICO format) R = what are the 3-4 most relevant concepts I = what part of the question is irrelevant to search process A = find alternate terms and aliases for the most important concepts R = revise, review, repeat Searching: Levels of Evidence Searching: Tips Quotation marks OR Parentheses Limit by site Limit by filetype + (plus sign) - (minus sign) ~ (tilde sign) Searching: Tips Quotation marks = Phrase searching OR = Concept groupings Parentheses = Multiple concept groups Limit by site Limit by filetype + (plus sign) = Stopword searching - (minus sign) = Exclude ~ (tilde sign) = Thesaurus or synonym searching Tip 1: Quotation marks for Phrase Searching Increases specificity and relevancy, reduces numbers. This is most useful when the words to be searched are ambiguous, have different meanings in various subject areas, when having the words adjacent to each other changes the meaning, or when it is important that the same word is repeated within a phrase. Tip 1: Phrase Searching Which works best? Gehrig disease 279,000 “Gehrig disease” 267,000 Which works best? Guam form 20,400,000 “Guam form” 401 Which works best? Cell cycle analysis 1,860,000 “Cell cycle analysis” 178,000 Tip 1: Phrase Searching Results have fewer false positives. Tip 2: OR Increases sensitivity, increases numbers, improves results ranking (quality sorting). Use this when you want any of the terms, not all of the terms. Be sure to capitalize the word “OR” so Google does not ignore it. Include British and alternate spellings. NOTE: Tools to aid in term discovery discussed later in this presentation Tip 2: OR (Example One) ALS 1,030,000,000 ALS OR “amyotroph