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Welcome Professor Ed Hall's Communication Disorders and Sciences 485
Librarian speaking to you today is Marcia Henry, Communication Disorders and Sciences Librarian.
The URL for this web page is http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/tipscd485.html 
The goals of today's library session:
- 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 more.
The library provides several ways to do your research. These include using a federated search or going into the native interface of databases. Starting point is Find Articles &Research Data Communication Disorders + Sciences at http://library.csun.edu/xerxes/categories/communication-disorders-sciences
- Communication Disorders Multisearch- search up to 10 databases simultaneously in one uniform interface, and save records to your own electronic space with the same login as your CSUN Email.
- Mediline -Index to medical literature
- uses MeSH Medical Subject Headings
- PubMed - includes many databases including Medline which is an index to 5000 medical journals from 1950. I encourage you to create an My NCBI account which you can use into your professional careers. Remember to use CSUN's URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=cacsunlib
- Medline(ISI Web of Knowledge) - also the Medline database which you can access while you are a registered student. Same records offered in the freely available PubMed but this subscription offers different presentation and the use of a bilbiographic management software program, My EndNote Web
- CINAHLPlus with Full Text (Nursing and Allied Health Literature, from 1937), PsycInfo, and ERIC (Education) all database along with Academic Search Elite, are available on EbscoHost .
- INSPEC - indexes journals, technical reports in physics, electronics, audiology
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) - Abstracts over 1,500 serials in language studies and linguistics. 1973-
- Learn how to use the Library Catalog to find books and journals on your topic. Explore Advanced Search . Learn how to use truncation to get plural
- Learn about the
link most of our databases offer.
- Register for CSUN's Interlibrary Loan
- Communication Disorders: Oviatt Library Research Guide for Speech, Hearing and Language Disorders. This subject guide describes subject headings, databases, and how to find articles on speech disorders and hearing in journals and internet web sites.
Assignment: Identify articles using several different databases. Questions to ask about a database: Coverage? Thesaurus? Questions to ask about Find Text Did it capture information about article correctly? Retrievals from Multisearch of several databases indicating large retrievals in many databases
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Cite Sources
Citing Your Sources -http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/e-books/estylegd.html
Help is also available for APA style in several of our databases:EbscoHost, Gale Infotrac, Proquest, CSA
Find Text offers More Options and look for
Save citation information .
Library has just added a bibliographic management software program, Endnote Web 
. You can import records from a variety of resources, and get help in listing your records in APA format. Registration is free while you are a student. Connect to MEDLINE (ISI) , or you can connect directly to My Endnoteweb.com .
You will have to still work on the references to have the correct APA style, for example: spell out the name of the journal, indenting the second line.
Please report any problems with this web page to mhenry@csun.edu
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