Search strategy tips
- Brainstorm search terms, enter in Strategy Builder in the box below.
- Experiment with subject headings in CINAHL and PubMed (see search tips and tutorials below).
- Wherever you search, take advantage of the databases' limit-setting features (e.g. peer-reviewed, date).
- When you have some good choices, pay attention to the features below for more searching ideas:
Subject Category References Cited by
- Healthy People 2030 SDOH ResourcesHP2030 information on Social Determinants of Health: the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
Search Strategy Builder
Search Strategy Builder
The Search Strategy Builder is a tool designed to teach you how to create a search string using Boolean logic. While it is not a database and is not designed to input a search, you should be able to cut and paste the results into most databases’ search boxes.
Now copy and paste the above Search Strategy into a database search box.
The Search Strategy Builder was developed by the University of Arizona Libraries(CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
- CINAHL with Full Text This link opens in a new windowUse to find scholarly articles in nursing and allied health fields, including topics of medicine, alternative therapies, consumer health, nursing standards, and research instruments. Contains full-text articles and books, abstracts and citations, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of practice, quick lessons, video and audio and full-text of Evidence-Based Care Sheets. Includes a Subject Heading feature, which allows students to identify proper subject headings and keywords to locate relevant articles.
Where should I start? Spotlight on PubMed
PubMed is a great database to begin your searches.
- Be sure to use the Le Moyne PubMed link so that you can connect to full text articles from your search results!
- Create a free myNCBI account to save your search strategies and preferred results.
The short tutorials below are a great way to learn PubMed basics!