Welcome Health Science 237:Introduction to Health Education

Professor: Diane Rosen

Librarian:Marcia Henry

You can email me at mhenry@csun.edu or call me at 818.677.3012.

URL for this web page is http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/tipshs237rosen.html

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 identify peer reviewed.
• Learn how to use the Library Catalog to find books and journals on your topic. 
  • 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 Health Behavior (electronic resource),
  • 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]
    Following is an example of a catalog record for an online journal
• Learn how to use Find Articles and Research data: Health Sciences http://library.csun.edu/xerxes/categories/health-sciences
• Learn how to use Find Articles Health Sciences Multisearch http://library.csun.edu/xerxes/multisearch/health-sciences- can search up to 10 databases simultaneously, and save records on your electronic shelf (same login as your CSUN email account)
• Learn how to use individual databases :
  • Health Reference Center ( Gale) -indexes popular and scholarly resources. Offers help on how to cite APA with its "Citation Tools" and when full text article is not available, the Find Text link helps you identify if CSUN owns the article in another database. Learn how to limit to Peer review
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  • EbscoHost databases- offers several key resources Academic Search Elite, ERIC (Education), PsycInfo, CINAHLPlus with Fulltext
  • Proquest databases and newspapers - includes the databases for the Los Angeles Times, current and historical. Peer reviewed articles are in the Academic tab
  • Learn how to use PubMed, an open access database available after you graduate - PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=cacsunlib offers the Find Text link which helps you identify if CSUN owns a journal. PubMed offers you links to good consumer health resources, otherwise known as MedlinePlus
  
• Learn how to get help in Citing your resources at http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/e-books/estylegd.html
• Learn how to Use Google Scholar and link retrievals to our holdings

  You can find items the Oviatt Library owns using Google Scholar's capabilities. To activate the capabilities for your browser, go to Scholar Preferences:

  1. In the box next to Library Links type "CSUN" and click Find Library.
  2. Check the box next to "CSU, Northridge (SFX Find It)"
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Save Preferences button.

  Select SFX: Additional Options or SFX: Find It for access to online full text, Oviatt Library holdings information, and Interlibrary Loan.