Literature search

Literature Search Made Easy

M any of us have been faced with this situation: we found a certain field of research intriguing, went to an online archive to search for related papers, and the results were just less than satisfactory: they are too unstructured to obtain a big picture, such as how this field evolves over time, what sub-fields it is composed of. Instead of relying on human instinct for such insights, our proje...

Geotemporal Search : A Literature Survey

Traditional information retrieval (IR) systems retrieve a set of documents as search results according to the relevance score of each document to the user query. Main limitation of these systems is that they do not take into account the implicit geotemporal context associated with the query and depend only on the keywords in the query to satisfy the user’s information needs. Geotemporal searche...

Federated Search of Scientific Literature

T he Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) was one of six sponsored by the NSF, DARPA, and NASA from 1994 through 1998. Our goal was to develop widely usable Web technology to effectively search technical documents on the Internet. We concentrated on building the experimental Illinois DLI Testbed with tens of thousands of full-text j...

Design of the literature search

Conducting a winning literature search

So what is a "winning literature search"? Simply put, it is one that provides you with the information you need to find the types of articles that will help you with clinical practice or research. Literature searching is a combination of an art and a science. Understanding the basic anatomy and physiology of searching can get you started on finding the information you need.