Library Research Tips for Health Science 237: Intro to Health Education

Professor: Ronald Fischbach

Assignment: Find books and scholarly articles on effective interventions for health and/or social issues in Los Angeles.

Understand what a scholarly, peer reviewed publication would look like in the field of health education. Some examples of scholarly jounals are American Journal of Public Health and American Journal of Public Health [Online] , Journal of Epidemiology and Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Online, and /or the Journal of American college health [online]

The URL for this class is located at http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/tipshs237.html

Librarian: Marcia Henry, Health Sciences Librarian

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 how to identify scholarly articles.
• Learn how to use the Library Catalog and the CSUN List of Electronic Journals to find books and journals on your topic.  Following is an example of a catalog record for an online journal
• Expect to use several databases in your research and get help with Find text links
  • Health Reference Center (Gale) -indexes popular and scholarly resources. Offers help on how to cite and when full text article is not available, the Find Text link helps you identify if CSUN owns the article in another database. In addition to the Health Reference Center, Expand into more databases using Gale PowerSearch (all Gale databases)
  • Academic Search Elite and CINAHL Plus with Full Text are EbscoHost databases |
  • Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega (Wilsonweb)
  • Proquest databases and newspapers and Lexis Nexis have some of the southern California newspapers
• Learn about PubMed, the largest and freely available index to the medical literature, CSUN's PubMed URL is: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=cacsunlib
• Learn about ERIC, a freely available Education databases
• Learn about HealthSciences Multisearch . Multisearch allows you to search up to 10 databases simultaneously, and with the same login you use for your CSUN email, you can save records you find in diverse databases on your Multisearch electronic shelf.