Methods for Collecting and Organizing Citations

The COCE bibliography is organized according to COCE’s conceptual framework that attempts to capture the major dimensions, topics, and sub-topics that define the field of COD research and practice.  The framework assists users to rapidly identify those subsets of citations directly relevant to any particular area of interest within the broad scope of COD research and practice.  COCE updates the bibliography on a routine basis, using the methodology described below, as well as expanding sources for search potential.

The COCE bibliography is based on a range of articles, books, reports, instruments, relevant URLs and some unpublished (fugitive) literature. 

1. The CDM-KAPLIT Database, contains over 10,000 entries from materials gathered over the last five years in the developments of the Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIPS), including the COD TIP (as of September 2002).  Items included in this database have been vetted by a wide range of experts, consensus panelists, field reviewers, and federal representatives. Therefore, the electronic searches (using Medline, PsychINFO, and other online databases) to build this database have been guided by expert consultation.  Approximately 785 citations were marked with keywords that are relevant to co-occurring disorders.  These citations were used to develop the COD TIP 42 literature review and updated for subsequent resource panel meetings.  These citations were copied to build a new database for the COCE bibliography (COCE database). Because KAPLIT is constantly being updated, a number of additional citations (206) were pulled for the COCE bibliography using the key words dual, dual diagnosis, or co-occurring.
2. Project CORK Database – Project CORK was founded at Dartmouth Medical School in 1977 through a grant from the Kroc Foundation to develop a model alcohol curriculum.  At the project’s completion, efforts to sustain the collection of materials in support of the project continued, resulting in its current goal to provide immediate access to authoritative information and materials on substance abuse. The CORK database currently includes over 51,000 items on substance abuse, indexed by over 400 terms. The items are primarily from the professional literature and include journal articles, books, book chapters, and reports. The database is updated quarterly.  The COCE database includes 179 citations from the COD-related bibliographies in Project CORK’s searchable database.

3. Senior COCE Team Resources and Recommendations – In addition to the above strategies for building the COCE bibliographic database, citations from articles and other materials were gathered in preparation of the COCE proposal and in support of ongoing COCE activities to date, including COCE’s Monthly Review of COD Research and Resources.  These citations are also included in the COCE database.