Food and Nutrition: Help with Searching

• Phrasemarks ensure that you only find results where those words are together in that order e.g. “health promotion”
• An asterisk will search for any group of letters e.g. diet* will find diet, dietary, diets etc
• A question mark will search for one letter e.g. wom?n will find women and woman

• The CINAHL Support Centre is available on these web pages
• Factsheets to help using Medline are available on these web pages
• For a tutorial in how to use PubMed see these web pages or this brochure
• For help using Scopus see these web pages.

Check out the Write Like a Scientist guide (including videos) on how to plan, research, structure and review your scientific research.  It was created by an Academic Skills Tutor in Applied Sciences. This YouTube navigation guide introduces the resource.

For overviews of how to use Knovel for basic searching, as well as retrieving scientific data, see these online demonstrations.