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AOD Research Skills

The AOD Research Skills page has been created to assist you in conducting your own research. This page will help you to develop effective and successful ways of conducting research and evaluating your search results. If you require further research assistance, don't forget about our Ask a Librarian Service.

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SEARCH SKILLS

THE DRUG DATABASE THESAURUS

Drug database thesaurus: the Australian alcohol and other drugs thesaurus 2010 [pdf - 64kb]
Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia, 2010.

This thesaurus lists all verified subject headings used in the DRUG Database [website]. Referring to this thesaurus and using the preferred subjects in DRUG will assist in receiving maximum search results.

PUBMED DATABASE SEARCHING

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 and other related resources.

PubMed quick start guide [website]

Tutorials and Quick Tours [website]

Medical Subject Headings [website]

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EVIDENCE-BASED

Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine: a self paced tutorial [website]
Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina

Evidence-Based Practice: Guides & Tutorials [website]
University of Minnesota, Bio-Medical Library

Evidence-Based Practices for Substance Abuse Disorders [website]
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Seattle

Background and Research Tools:  An Evidence-Based Approach for the AOD Sector [pdf - 637.57Kb]
Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia, 2007

Steps to a Population Based Method:  An Evidence-Based Approach for the AOD Sector [pdf - 464.78Kb]
Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia, 2007

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CITATION GUIDES

ENDNOTE

EndNote is a software tool created to search online bibliographic databases, organise references, images and PDFs in any language, and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly.

EndNote Online Tutorials [website]

 

HARVARD CITATION GUIDE

The Harvard citation style is one of the most popular citation styles and most universities have style guides. You should use the style guide provided by the university to attend. If you are not a university student NDSIS recommends you use the Queensland University

University of Queensland Library - Reference / Bibliography Harvard Style  [pdf - 112.99Kb]

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HOW TO WRITE A RESEARCH PAPER

Chapter 5:  How to write a scientific paper for a peer-reviewed journal [pdf - 141.30Kb]
Publishing Addiction Science:  A Guide for the Perplexed, 2nd edition, 2008

Chapter 6:  How to write publishable qualitative research [pdf - 141.38Kb]
Publishing Addiction Science:  A Guide for the Perplexed, 2nd edition, 2008

 

 

HOW TO READ A RESEARCH PAPER

How to read a paper: British Medical journal Collection [website]
Trisha Greenhalgh, BMJ, Volume 315, 1997

 

PUBLISHING

Publishing Addiction Science:  A Guide for the Perplexed, 2nd Edition [website]
Edited by Thomas F. Babor, Kerstin Stenius, Susan Savva and Jean O'Reilly. International Society of Addiction Journal Editors, 2008

For more information on study skills visit the Drugfields website.

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