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The Northern College of Acupuncture

These e-learning sessions are dedicated to the memory of the early pioneers of acupuncture education in the UK, including Denis Lawson-Wood, Sidney Rose-Neil, Keith Lamont, Mary Austin, Royston Low, Jack Worsley and Dick van Buren

Taster Session 1 - How to Find Online Research Evidence: Section 3

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Thinking about 'evidence'

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What kinds of evidence are you looking for:
  • RCT
  • Statistically processed data
  • Qualitative data
  • Systematic literature reviews

 

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Using Electronic Databases

There are lots of free databases that give you access to good research journals where you can find academic articles that have been deemed to be a sound academic standard. These are provided on the attached document below.

 

NCA students also have added access to further journals that cannot be accessed by the general public - find out more about the courses that we offer at the NCA!

 

List of freely available databases!

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Accessing PubMed

Click on each of the following links. This will take you to an easy, one-minute training video by PubMed on how to use their database. After each search return to this page and click on the next search:

Subject Search

Author Search

Journal Search

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PubMed

  1. Go to this site for all the tutorials if you wish to learn more
  2. Now you try a search of your own using PubMed

 

Students at NCA get free access to AltHealthWatch and AMED which are databases especially developed for CAM research!

Click here to find out more about our programmes!

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Another free database:

Accessing DARE

Dr. Morag Heirs

Dr. Morag Heirs will step you through how to access this database and find research on topics that interest you

Click here for the DARE homepage

Did you know?

As a student of NCA, you would have access to a complete guide to searching the Literature developed by Dr. Heirs

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