Index to Chiropractic Literature
Index to Chiropractic Literature
My ICL     Sign In
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Index to Chiropractic LiteratureIndex to Chiropractic LiteratureIndex to Chiropractic Literature
Share:


For best results switch to Advanced Search.
Article Detail
Return to Search Results
ID 18858
  Title Expanding the resources [in response to: Kline CM. The literature: Tackling Everest. JACA Online 2005; 42(7):2-6.] [letter]
URL
Journal JACA Online. 2006 Jan-Feb;43(1):Online access only p 16
Author(s)
Subject(s)
Peer Review No
Publication Type Letter
Abstract/Notes
 
As librarians employed in two chiropractic colleges, we applaud your proposed series on how to find and use the scientific literature.  The stated purpose of the first article in this series is to focus primarily on providing some access fundamentals, with suggestions on how to effectively use them. The author touched on a number of topics, including how to formulate a research question, where and how to search, and how to interpret statistics.  Any one of these deserves to be the focus of a separate article, and all would be welcomed by your readers. We would like to comment on the section of the article in which you highlight PubMed, Where to Start.
 
PubMed is unquestionably a valuable resource for chiropractors. However, its coverage of purely chiropractic journals is limited to JMPT (1982 to the present), Chiropractic History (1981-2000) and Chiropractic & Osteopathy (2005+). For those wishing to search the chiropractic literature beyond these journals, the Index to Chiropractic Literature (ICL) is the database of choice, and it’s free.  The Chiropractic Library Consortium’s librarians have indexed in ICL all peer-reviewed chiropractic journals from 1985.  Thanks to a 2004 grant from the Association of Chiropractic Colleges, we have been able to make many improvements over the past year, and we encourage JACA Online readers to give ICL a try at www.chiroindex.org.
 
As librarians we always encourage our chiropractic students to search a variety of databases, and these include CINAHL, Alt HealthWatch, MANTIS and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. We realize that many chiropractors do not have access to these resources. There are, however, some free, high-quality databases available, many of which are listed on ICL’s Further Resources page at www.chiroindex.org/resources.php.
 
Even if chiropractors limit their literature searches to PubMed and ICL, they stand a good chance of discovering much of the peer-reviewed chiropractic literature.  Correctly interpreting and putting into practice the lessons from this literature will lead to better health care decisions, and ultimately, to improved patient outcomes, the goal of evidence-based chiropractic.
 
Phyllis Harvey MLn (Palmer College of Chiropractic), ICL Editor
Anne Taylor-Vaisey MLS (Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College), ICL Co-Editor & Web Editor

 

 

   Text (Citation) Tagged (Export) Excel
 
Email To
Subject
 Message
Format
HTML Text     Excel



To use this feature you must register a personal account in My ICL. Registration is free! In My ICL you can save your ICL searches in My Searches, and you can save search results in My Collections. Be sure to use the Held Citations feature to collect citations from an entire search session. Read more search tips.

Sign Into Existing My ICL Account    |    Register A New My ICL Account
Search Tips
  • Enclose phrases in "quotation marks".  Examples: "low back pain", "evidence-based"
  • Retrieve all forms of a word with an asterisk*, also called a wildcard or truncation.  Example: chiropract* retrieves chiropractic, chiropractor, chiropractors
  • Register an account in My ICL to save search histories (My Searches) and collections of records (My Collections)
Advanced Search Tips