Smoking Research Program
HLS 396
Special Topics: Risk Behavior Change

Department of Community and Preventive Medicine and the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center

Deborah Ossip-Klein, PhD, Director | Scott McIntosh, PhD, Assistant Director

Miner Library Info

1. There is a calendar of classes at the desk on the Right upon entering Miner. Miner offers a class on how to “survive” in the library, check the calendar pamphlet to find a suitable time. If you are already library proficient, you may want to look into the OVID Medline class.
   
2. OVID Medline is a great resource to search for articles in a broad online database. PubMed includes Medline and citations from additional life sciences journals. PsycINFO offers access to worldwide literature in psychology and similar fields. This database can be useful in finding info on behavioral research. Web of Science is another digital tool, which offers Science Citation Index Expanded, which contains science, technology and biomedical information.
   
3. Starting at http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/hslt/miner/ (also the home page in the library) click on MEDLINE under the Digital Library Tab. ‘OVID Medline 1966 to Present with Daily Update’ is good for most searches.
   
4. Medline Practice Search: Let us say that we want to find some information pertinent to adolescent smokers and quitting.
   
5. First off, we can search for the keyword adolescent smok$, the $ truncates the keyword, so we can find adolescent smokers, adolescent smoking, etc.
   
6. This results in more than 500 results, certainly too many. Let’s try to search for smoking cessation now. More than 10,000 results, from here we can click on combine searches. We can check the boxes for 1 and 2 and we want to add the searches together so we put AND then combine the searches. Now we are left with about 150 results.
   
7. To narrow down even more, we can search for keyword quit. This will turn up a lot of hits, but once again we can combine searches. Combine 3 and 4 and we will be left with a number under 100. Generally you want to find fewer than 100 results because sometimes they won’t be specific enough to what you want to search for and it can be a tedious task to look through all of them.
   
8. Click display to show the results of the search. Viewing the abstract will give a sound overview of the article and you will be able to decide whether it provides the information you seek. If so, there may be the full text available there, otherwise you can use the ‘find text’ option.
   
9. The E-journal resource accessible from the Miner home page is also a good way to find some information especially if you know what journal you want to look into.
   

Miner Library Loan

1. Take out books under Scott McIntosh, PhD. The Authorization Borrowing Form is located in the folder at Miner Library. You will need your ID.
   
2. If you need to add or remove names to/from the Authorization Form call: 5-3361
   
3. If you need a book located at another library, order the book and pick it up from Miner Library. DO NOT order a copy- it costs extra money.
   
4. Once you have the book ordered, make copies of the desired pages with a copy card located in the bottom file drawer (in folder labeled “copy card.”