Research tips for EOH 554: Environmental and Occupational Health Problems -Sustainability

Professor: Michael Sullivan, PhD and Peter Bellin, PhD

Librarian: Marcia Henry - you can contact me by email : mhenry@csun.edu, or call me at 818.677.3012.

Lecture : Library lecture given September 9 and September 10, 2009, 7-10 pm URL for class handout at http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/tipseoh554.html

Purpose of today's Library workshop: How to find books and journal articles on various topics related to EOH and sustainability

Learn how to use the Library Catalog and WorldCat to find books and journals, in print and online, which CSUN owns.

• catalog record a book: Barlett, P. F., & Chase, G. W. (2004). Sustainability on campus: Stories and strategies for change. Urban and industrial environments. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

  catalog record for the journal Sustainable development [electronic resource}

• Learn about Find Articles and research data Environmental & Occupational Health
  • Quick search using Most useful databases
• Learn about the link most of our databases offer.
• Register for CSUN's Interlibrary Loan
• Databases
  • Environmental Health Multisearch-search up to 10 databases simultaneously, save records from diverse database with your CSUN user ID login.
  • Gale Power Search - searches several databases including OneFile, Gale Virtual Library, Health Reference Center Academic
  • Academic Search Elite , Cinahl Plus with Full Text (Nursing and Allied Health), and GreenFILE are EbscoHost databases
  • Wilson Omnifile Full Text Mega includes Applied Science & Technolgoy Full Text
  • Learn more about PubMed/Medline -be sure to connect to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=cacsunlib
    • PubMed Basics handout adapted with CSUN find text example
    • My NCBI
  • Biological Abstracts (ISI) and Medline (ISI)
  • Science Direct
• Cite - Style guides
• Endnote web is a free software program we can offer because of our subscription to ISI databases such as MEDLINE(ISI) . Endnote Web allows you to save reference yuo have collected from various databases, and if you download the free plug in's for MicroSoft Word, it offers you help in formating your bibliography in the style guide you specifiy, e.g. APA6th
• Websites
  • U.S. EPA -- check out its Sustainability web page at http://www.epa.gov/Sustainability/ related programs and the latest research and activities related to Urban Sustainability and the Built Environment; Water and Ecosystem Services; Energy, Biofuels and Climate Change; and Materials Management and Human Health.
  • National Library of Medicine's SIS, Specialized Information Services, website at http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro.html