The Health Sciences Library offers a fee-based mediated online literature search service to all library users. Searches are conducted on an appointment basis.
Payment is requested at the time of the search and all payments are receipted.
An online search provides computer-generated information on a topic, usually in the form of a bibliography. Most of the databases contain citations to journal articles, chapters in books, conference papers, theses, and so on. Advantages of Computer Searching Literature searching by computer retrieves information with greater degrees of efficiency, comprehensiveness, currency and specificity. In addition to saving time, online searching allows the combination of two or more concepts. Databases are often searchable by more specific vocabulary than their print counterparts, making it possible to find information in an extremely narrow field of research or subject area, and each online search can be custom designed to meet unique requirements.