Chapter 1  Information Literacy  1

1.1  Overview of Information Literacy  1

1.2  Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education  2

1.3  Information Literacy Modules   4

1.4  Others related to information literacy   7

Chapter 2  Overview of Informationliteracy Cultivation   11

2.1  Status of Medical Information Literacy Cultivation  11

2.2  The necessity of Information Literacy Cultivation  13

2.3  Feasibility of Information Literacy Cultivation  14

2.4  Information Literacy Standards   16

2.5  Objectives and principles ofInformation Literacy Education   18

2.6  Model of Information Literacy Cultivation  19

2.7  Information Literacy Evaluation   21

Chapter 3   Information Sources Overview   27

3.1  Concepts Related to Information  27

3.2  Summary of Information Sources   29

3.3  Organization of network Information Sources  33

3.4  Information Retrieval Language   37

3.5  Information Retrieval System and Tools  40

3.6  Evaluation Criteria of Internet Information Resources Retrieval Tools  46

Chapter 4   An Overview of Information Retrieval   49

4.1  principles of Information Retrieval  49

4.2  Classification of Information Retrieval   50

4.3  The purpose and Significance of Information Retrieval  51

4.4  Search Technology  53 4.5   Search Steps  57

4.6   Evaluation of Search Results  63

Chapter 5   Chinese Information Retrieval Tools  64

5.1  The Concepts and Characteristics of Medical Digital Resources  64

5.2  Common Chinese Medical Literature Databases  64

Chapter 6   English Information Retrieval Tools  84

6.1  Science Citation Index (Expanded)   84

6.2  pubmed, Index Medicus and Medline   93

6.3  Chemical Abstracts and SciFinder  107

6.4 ScienceDirect  112 6.5 SpringerLink  116 6.6   EBSCOhost 119

Chapter 7   Online Medical Resources   126

7.1  network Resources   126

7.2  Web Search Engines  133

7.3  Search of Medical Software 137

7.4  Open Access to Medical Information  139

Chapter 8   Patent literature retrieval  146

8.1  Basic knowledge of patent  146

8.2  patent Literature   147

8.3  Chinese patent Literature  149

8.4  Chinese patent Literature Retrieval   152

8.5  World patent Literature Retrieval  157

Chapter 9  Information Service Organizations and Their Services 175

9.1  Library  175

9.2  Archives Repositories  192

9.3  Medical Record Room  194

Chapter 10   Medical Information Analysis and Medical Research Topic Selection  197

10.1  Statistical Methods in Medical Research   197

10.2  Medical Research Design  199

10.3  Big Data and Drug Discovery   204

Chapter 11   Medical Information Investigation 209

11.1  An Overview of Medical Information Investigation  209

11.2  Material Collection, Identification and Collation   211

11.3  Intelligence Analysis, Research and Forecasting  221

11.4  Science and Technology novelty Searching on Medicine  224

Chapter 12   The Writing of Medical Papers 235

12.1  An Overview of Medical Researcher papers   235

12.2  Basic Formats and Requirements of Medical papers  235

12.3  Methods and Steps of Writing Medical papers  238

12.4  How to Write a Medical Review  240

12.5  How to Write a Medical Abstract  242

Information retrieval (IR) is a broad area of computer science focused primarily on providing the users with easy access to information of their interest. With the promotion of one belt and one road policy of China in the world and the increase of international cultural exchange activities, the education of foreign students studying in China has become an important part of high education of China. Medical Information Retrieval (MIR) will be a course that foreign medical students will need to study. The purpose of setting up this course is to improve their medical information quality and their ability of obtaining and using medical information. Therefore, it is necessary to provide them a complete and systematic MIR textbook in English. Although there are more than 150 Chinese MIR textbooks officially published in China, there are few English MIR textbooks published, and even fewer excellent textbooks, so it’s far from meeting the needs of information literacy education for a large number of foreign students in China. This textbook is timely written and published under this background, hoping it helps to solve the problem of long-term shortage of English MIR textbooks in domestic universities.
On the basis of referring to many published MIR textbooks in China, this textbook focuses on basic, practical, systematic, novel, popular knowledge and the cultivation of students’ information literacy. Authors strive to make the contents of the textbook keep pace with the times; they incorporate the latest retrieval theory, retrieval scope and content, retrieval technology tools and research results into the book as much as possible and present them to the readers. The computer-centered medical information retrieval is highlighted in this book. Authors try hard to combine theory with practice, paying attention to the teaching of retrieval basic knowledge and the cultivation of retrieval ability, and reflect the latest research results of in formation retrieval. The content of the textbook is rich and comprehensive and English grammar is pretty concise, easy to understand and fluent. The book not only covers the research object, research scope and latest research content of information retrieval, but also describes the medical information retrieval professionally and systematically.
The whole book is divided into twelve chapters. Chapter one is an overview of information literacy. From the second chapter to the fourth chapter, it introduces the overview of information literacy cultivation, information resources and information retrieval. The fifth chapter mainly introduces Chinese information retrieval tools, while the sixth chapter introduces English information retrieval tools. From Chapter seven to Chapter eight, it mainly discusses the network medical resources and patent literature retrieval. Chapter nine is about information service organization and service mode. From Chapter ten to Chapter twelve, it deals with medical information analysis and medical research topic selection, medical information investigation and medical papers writing, respectively. The content system of the book is scientific, reasonable, comprehensive and consistent.
Through the study of this MIR textbook, students can get better training and improvement in basic theoretical knowledge of information, information skills, information retrieval strategies, information sources, locations and channels, information use, information synthesis and organization from different sources, and information evaluation.
Due to the short time and heavy tasks, coupled with the limitation of the knowledge level, definitely there are inevitably some problems in the textbook. I hope that students and peer experts will put forward some suggestions for improvement and methods for correction during the use of this book, so that this book can be modified, enriched and further improved in next edition. For shortcomings, please don't hesitate to criticize and correct.
Zhou Jinyuan Jiangsu University Library
2020年5月