Literature Review Support from UVA Health Sciences Library

Today we met with Ms. Karen Knight, our wonderful librarian who shared many insights with us on searching the available literature. We are doing a literature search relating to CHW curriculum development and general implementation of programming.

• Today we reviewed the use of OVID and MeSH terms to make sure that we have been performing an adequate search of the literature.
• Karen also shared a website for us called Web of Science. During our review of literature, if we a few articles that we particularly like, we can type in the information to this site. Once we find these articles in this database, we will be able to see any other papers that have cited it. This will help us dig deeper and potentially find other articles. Web of Science can also be used for general search.
• Karen also walked us through the use of RefWorks. This website allows us to easily document and record the sources that we review. We can use this program to easily create a bibliography. It will also be very helpful when we are typing any write-up or paper as we can use this program with Microsoft Word to easily cite sources.
• Other items that we discussed include the use of interlibrary loan, single cite matcher included with pubmed, and HubMed (which allows us to easily upload previously search sources onto RefWorks).

This meeting will be invaluable as we move forward with further review of the literature regarding CHWs. We will continue our literature review for the next few weeks and plan to summarize what we find in brief write-ups.