Theses abstracts This site holds abstracts of every thesis accepted for higher degrees in the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland since 1970. Free to search if your library subscribes. There are several excellent sites which may help you locate the information you want on the web. TRY Netting the evidence page based at Sheffield University. University of Cambridge Public Health Page OMNI Organising Medical Networked Information.
Many medical journals are now on the internet.
Hopefully one of these sites should lead you to the journal that you are looking for. Reviewing the literature Having collected the information, the next step is to critically appraise the quality of the evidence. The aim of these free workshops is to help health service decision makers and those who seek to influence decision makers develop skills in the critical appraisal of evidence about effectiveness, in order to promote the delivery of evidence-based health care. If you don't have access to these workshops, the Cochrane collaboration's handbook is useful, particularly Chapter 6 - Critical Appraisal of Studies . Also, for more specific issues, the BMJ have published a series of papers which are designed to help you critically assess the relevance and quality of the information which you have found.