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EOH 555: Library research tips for Environmental and Occupational Health Programs, Standards, and Controls
Professor: John Schillinger
Librarian : Marcia Henry, EOH Librarian
You can email me at mhenry@csun.edu, or call me at 818.677.3012.
The URL for this webpage is http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/tipseoh555js.html
Purpose of today's Library workshop: Learn how to find federal and state legislation, government regulations, and policy related documents and publications. Focus on law and regulations relating to environmental and occupational health problems; be able to identify if CSUN owns a book or journal
- Learn about Find Articles & Research Data Environmental & Occupational Health to identify helpful databases and link to the Oviatt Library's Environmental and Occupational Health Research Guide which describes subject headings for environmental health, databases, how to find journals and internet web sites. http://library.csun.edu/xerxes/categories/environmental-occupational-health
- Point out the CSUN web page on US Law Research Guide . Its URL is http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/Government_Publications/uslegal.html
and it describes:
Legislative Law: U.S. Code | Session Laws (Statutes) | Bills | Legislative History | Treaties
Judicial Law: Encyclopedias | Digests | Known Case Search | Recent Decisions | Cases Pending
Administrative Law: Code of Federal Regulations | Federal Register
Databases
- About Lexis-Nexis. Offers you access to date and federal regulations, laws and court cases. Its URL is http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/Databases/i-lexis.html
- CQ Weekly provides reports on legislative activities from 1983 to present.
- About Gale databases . General OneFile and Health Reference Center Academic have a controlled vocabulary and you will find see it offers a subdivision laws, regulations and rules. Its URL is http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/Databases/i-iftrc.html
- About Academic Search Elite (EbscoHost). Its URL is http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/Databases/i-ebsco.html
- About Medline/PubMed. For pollants you can look for the subheading standards. Its URL is http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/Databases/i-medlin.html
- About NLM's SIS Specialized Information Sources. Its URL is http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/eohsis.html
Websites
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-- EPA website has an outstanding "Introduction to Laws and Regulations" with links to appropriate website to look up bills, acts, and the federal laws. Its URL is http://www.epa.gov/
- California Law Research Guide
- http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/Government_Publications/callaw.html
- US Law Research guide -Federal Regulations and Administrative Agencies
- http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/Government_Publications/uslegal.html
Other Helpful Research tips
- 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.
- Learn how to use Environmental & Occupational Health Multisearch to create your own personal list of resources, e-journals, searches, and research alerts and search up to ten (10) databases simultaneously. Multisearch also allows you to save records from diverse dabatases on your electronic shelf (My saved records). Note: Not all databases are multisearchable
- Learn how to use the Library Catalog to find books and journals on your topic. Learn about the
link most of our databases offer. - Register for CSUN's Interlibrary Loan
- Learn about Citation Styles
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