Hand searching for the full-text articles bibliographies of the selected studies was established.
The scientists combed through several databases of scientific articles, searching for the word "porcupine" and compiling articles that mentioned avian-porcupine interactions.
I was worried my students would just search for the shortest article possible, but they have gone above and beyond with our weekly Times articles.
The website ' http://www.pakmedinet.com' was explored to search for the relevant articles published in the local journals.
Due to our inclusion of some form of "incubation period" in searching for articles, the entirety of the literature on each virus was not reviewed.
Terms were searched for in the article title, abstract, substance word, subject heading and key words.
The ease of searching for relevant articles was the major contributor (50.5%) in preference of e-journals.
We used the Medline database for searching for articles from the 12 study countries, and the publications indexed in Medline might not fully reflect the extent of EMR output from the selected countries.
For the purpose of this study, the problem of obtaining random samples was solved by using the advanced search facility of Scopus, which allows searching for articles based on the first or the last page number of the article.
For studies identified as possibly eligible by either of the reviewers, we will search for the full-text article.
