Research Guides: PHAR 657: Proposal Resources

Proposal Research

Proposal Requirements

Do pharmacists have the skills, expertise, and opportunities for filling the unmet public health need?
What are the top challenges for extending pharmacists’ contributions to population-based public health initiatives?
What are strategies to overcome them?
What type of support is needed from other health care professionals and public health agencies?

Apply search strategies and techniques to the research questions

MEDLINE Ultimate This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE Ultimate is the largest full-text companion to the MEDLINE index, providing medical professionals and researchers unparalleled access to 2,500 active full-text journals, including numerous top biomedical publications.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles (some of which are free) and other related resources.
Academic Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Complete provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information.

Advanced Multi-Search
Use the library multi-search tool to access multiple databases and library catalogs. You combine terms to perform a targeted search and can filter results by item and source type.
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
Includes information from over 800 pharmaceutical, medical and health-related journals published worldwide since 1970. Includes study design, number of patients, dosage, dosage forms and dosage schedule.

You can use Boolean Operators, Wildcard, Truncation, and Phrases to narrow or expand your search results.

Boolean Operators

Truncation, Wildcards & Phrases

Wildcards
- Searches for additional letters
- Can be different things depending on database
- Most use “?”
  - Wom?n
    - Women, Woman, Womyn
Truncation
- Searches for additional suffixes or endings
- Use *
  - Medicin*
    - Medicine, Medicines, Medicinal
Phrases
- Searches for a specific string of words
- Use quotes” “
  - “Social justice”