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HSCI 345: Public Health Issues Research Tips

Professors Gretta Madzjoob, Crystal Adams, Christina Iyengar

Library Research Resources for Public Health Issues

Getting Started

Accessing Library Resources from Off Campus

As a CSUN student you can access most databases from off campus, anywhere around the world. You just need to make sure you have your PORTAL username and password. When you click on a database from off campus, you will see a login screen. When you've entered the ID and password information, you'll be redirected to the database.
 

Books

Periodical Articles

Search the library's databases to find journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

News, Current Events, General Information

Scholarly Journals and Scientific Information

  • CINAHL Plus -- scholarly journals from nursing, medicine, and consumer health
  • GoogleScholar -- scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and reports across many disciplines
  • PubMed -- scholarly and research journal articles in biochemistry, medicine and related fields
  • ScienceDirect -- search full-text journals published by Elsevier
  • Wiley Online Library -- search full-text journals published by Wiley
  • CQ Researcher  -- explores in depth  hot issues in the news
  • Information Sources: Health Sciences -- Onesearch  allows you to search 150 databases and our Library catalog, and offers you an electronic shelf to save records from diverse databases. This electronic shelf cannot be edited, and OneSearch recommendations on citing are often incomplete.  OneSearch records can be Saved, view Saved, then the Saved record view offers Export to EndNote Web.   You can sign up for your free EndNoteWeb account.  It will help you cite in APA Style 6th as well as offers a very large selection of citation styles, MLA, Turabian, JAMA, Environmental Perspectives, and many more.

Government Publications

http://www.ncsl.org/about-us/ncslservice/state-legislative-websites-directory.aspx

Citing Sources

 

Citing your sources EndNote Web

  • Learn how to sign up and use Endnote Web . You can import bibliographic records from a variety of resources to create your own personal database of articles, books, websites.  Use EndNote Web to collect, manage, and create a bibliography or works cited list from your citations.

Registration is free while you are a student.  First time, to sign up for your EndNoteWeb account, you can connect directly to http://library.csun.edu/restricted/endnote.scr. In addition to asking Marcia Henry and other librarians  for help, Endnote Web will  also answer your questions about installing the Cite While you Write plugin for Microsoft Word on your own computer. If you install Cite While You Write plugin on your own computer in your MicroSoft Word, be sure to set Preferences so it goes to the url:

http://www.myendnoteweb.com

on your own computer you can put in the working email address you used to sign up with EndNoteWeb, your password, and check Keep me logged in.

Tutorials for Endnote Web are provided at library.csun.edu/FindResources/i-Endnoteweb

Endnote Web technical support's telephone number  is (800)336-4474 

    (800)336-4474    

 Call Monday-Friday 6:00am-5:00 pm (Pacific Coast Time) Cite While You Write for Microsoft Word

Finding Books and Journals in the Library Catalog

Use the Catalog search box located in the center of the library's homepage to search for books. To search for books on your topic, use the default Keyword search option and enter your search terms in the For box.

If you have a specific book or author in mind, before you enter your search terms in the For box, change the Search type from Keyword to:

  • Title - to look for a specific book.
  • Author - to look for books by a specific author.

 To look for ebooks only, select Ebooks in the Limits field.

Finding Articles in Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers

Pick a database recommended for your subject from Find Articles by Subject and then search using keywords.

To locate the full text of an article:

  • If full-text is available in the database, click on the link to full text (HTML or PDF).
  • If full-text isn't available in the database, click the Find Text button to see if we have access to the article in another database or in print in the library
  • If no Find Text button is available or you didn't find the article through our databases, search for the magazine or journal title using the Journals tab in the library catalog.
  • If the full text isn't available through the Library, you can request an Interlibrary Loan for the article(s) that you need. However, you must allow about two weeks for this!

 

Scholarly Journals (Peer-reviewed/Referreed)

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  • Authors are authorities in their fields.
  • Authors cite their sources in endnotes, footnotes, or bibliographies.
  • Individual issues have little or no advertising.
  • Articles must go through a peer-review or refereed process.
  • Articles are usually reports on scholarly research.
  • Illustrations usually take the form of charts and graphs.
  • Articles use jargon of the discipline.