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EOH 696b Seminar in Research Design: Library skills and search tips for Professor Bobby Madison's class
The Librarian speaking to you today is Marcia Henry, Health Sciences Librarian.
Welcome, Dr. Madison's class. You can email me at mhenry@csun.edu, or call me at 818.677.3012.
The URL of this web page is: http://library.csun.edu/people/mhenry/tipseoh696b.html
The 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 more.
- Learn about some key library databases you will find on Find Articles & Research Data
Environmental + Occupational Health
- CSUN's PubMed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=cacsunlib
indexes 5000 medical journals, dozens of full text books, and is a portal to the NLM Gateway, TOXNET and freely available, open access journals. For the purposes of this class, you are offered several ways to limit a search to toxicology. There is a Limit by the subset/Topic "toxicology" or you can use subheadings associated with chemicals, "adverse effects","poisoning","toxicity". There is a subheading "chemically induced" associated with diseases.
- MedlinePlus MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.
- National Library of Medicine Gateway, be sure to check out Toxline at http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?TOXLINE
- CSUN's PubMed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=cacsunlib
indexes 5000 medical journals, dozens of full text books, and is a portal to the NLM Gateway, TOXNET and freely available, open access journals. For the purposes of this class, you are offered several ways to limit a search to toxicology. There is a Limit by the subset/Topic "toxicology" or you can use subheadings associated with chemicals, "adverse effects","poisoning","toxicity". There is a subheading "chemically induced" associated with diseases.
- Toxnet databases are described at http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/databasetable.html
- our latest collection of journals, Sage Online Journals has a useful journal for your research, namely, Toxicology and Industrial Health. Consider browsing this journal in Sage Journals Online, to find appropriate topics.
Assignment:Students need to find a paper in a journal and critique it. They will be preparing a PHS 398 grant propsal. The grant application instructions are on the web at |
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- Learn how to use
Environmental + Occupational Health Multisearch
to create search up to ten (10) databases simultaneously, and to save records in your own electronic shelf using the same login as your CSUN email account. - Learn how to use the Library Catalog and the CSUN List of Electronic Journals to find books and journals on your topic. Learn about the
link most of our databases offer. Sample screen of a journal article we do have online
- Register for CSUN's Interlibrary Loan
- Learn about Citation Styles
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