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Nursing Research & Evidence-Based Practice Toolkit

FREE resources for nurses and nursing students conducting research, evidence-based practice (EBP), and quality improvement (QI) projects courtesy of the Inova Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice Department and the Inova Health Sciences Library

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Search Skills Series: Pearl Growing
This brief presentation shows how to grow your literature search from one "seed" article into many articles.

With the following search techniques, you can learn to grow many articles from one.

Look at the article's reference list. Are there any other references you can use?

This mining technique works well with newer articles.

Paste the title of the good article you’ve found into your favorite peer-reviewed article database, like CINAHL or PubMed.

Hit search to pull the article up in the database, then examine the information about the article.

Use "Citing Articles" or "Times Cited" to uncover additional articles. Repeat the process with these newly discovered articles.

For more research tips and tricks, contact us at library@inova.org