Library Research Tips for Health Science 345: Public Health Issues

Librarian:Marcia Henry

You can email me at mhenry@csun.edu or call me at 818.677.3012.

URL for this web page is http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/hs345harmon.html

Professor: Martha Harmon

Goals of the library sessions are:

• Learn How to do Library and Internet research: determine information need, choose best resources, develop a search strategy, understand keyword and subject searching, how to use boolean operators and truncation  symbols, how to cite sources, and identify peer reviewed.
• Learn how to use the Library Catalog to find books and journals on your topic. 
• Learn how to use Find Articles and Research data: Health Sciences http://library.csun.edu/xerxes/categories/health-sciences
• Learn how to use individual databases :
  • Health Reference Center ( Gale) -indexes popular and scholarly resources. Offers help on how to cite APA with its "Citation Tools" and when full text article is not available, the Find Text link helps you identify if CSUN owns the article in another database. Learn how to limit to Peer review
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  • Proquest databases and newspapers - includes the databases for the Los Angeles Times, current and historical. Peer reviewed articles are in the Academic tab
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• Learn about the link most of our databases offer.
• Citing your sources:

  Many of our databases and the Find Text menu (save citation information) offer help in How to cite.

  Library also has extensive help at Citation Style Guides

• Websites
  • MedlinePlus - freely available internet website which offers good, authoritative, health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily and can be bookmarked at the URL: http://www.medlineplus.gov. There is no advertising on this site, nor does MedlinePlus endorse any company or product. Descriptions of diseases usually offer links to websites with statistics.
• Legislation
• Do you need to know about legislation in California, the Official California Legislative Information is available at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/