CORE Library Blog

Sometimes a story punches us right in the Feelings ... and some punches hurt more than others.  The final season of Game of Thrones has long promised to end the journeys of characters that began many, many years ago, and last night's epic Battle of Winterfell delivered on that promise. 

If you're struggling today with the loss of favorite characters, you may find the suggestions in the CORE Library's new Research Guide on Literary Grief and Loss to be helpful in coming to terms with those whose watch has ended.

Need more sources for a literature review?  Has your search stalled with only one or two useful items?  A technique called "citation mining"  can help you to find more on your topic. This can take one of several forms:

1. Look at the reference list of your resources to find the sources that those authors used.
2. Find out who has cited your resources.
3. Find more resources written by the same author or published in the same journal.

The CORE Library's Research Guide on Citation Mining includes tips for mining articles plus a helpful video that demonstrates several techniques for mining an article for additional relevant resources.  It's the best way to kick a stalled search into high gear!

Presenting cases is a common assignment within the medical literacy and interventions courses here at CGI.  However, there may be times when you do not have a case from your own work or personal experience that fits the parameters of a particular assignment.

Recently published, the Case Report Resources Research Guide can assist you with finding published case reports that you can mine for patient background and medical history to create a fictitious patient for your own case reports.  By using search strategies in the CORE Library databases, locating reputable open-access journals that publish case reports, or even by exploring internet resources where patients describe their own history in text or video, you will be able to fulfill the requirements of a case report assignment even if you do not know of a patient who fits the requirements of an assignment.

The Guide can be located at https://azhin.org/cummings/casereports, and it is also listed in the Index to All Research Guides, available on the CORE Library's home page.

A new Research Guide is available in the CORE Library, which targets the topics from DBH 9905:  Behavioral Interventions in Chronic Pain.  These topics include disparities in pain management, patient-reported outcome measures, pain management with medical cannabis and opioids, and how to determine reliability and validity of screenings and assessments.  The Guide contains supplemental resources that can be helpful for many of DBH 9905's assignments.