Welcome to Health Science 303: Professional Nursing

Professor: Martha Highfield

Librarian : Marcia Henry, Health Sciences and Nursing 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/tipshs303.html

The goals of first library session are:

1. 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.
2. Learn about the Oviatt catalog which advises you which books, journals, videos the Library owns. Learn about searching using keywords and/ or subject headings, truncation symbols: Connect to http://suncat.csun.edu/ . Learn about subject headings, possible links to google books, link to Cite this title, catalog record for periodicals. Also learn about Reserves . Some helpful links into the catalog for items which might describe your ethnic group are:
   • Morrison, T., Conaway, W. A., & Borden, G. A. (1994). Kiss, bow, or shake hands: How to do business in sixty countries. Holbrook, Mass: B. Adams. Reference Room HF5389 M67 1994
   • Spector, R. E. (2004). Cultural diversity in health & illness. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall. Reserve Room Floor 4 East RA418.5 T73 S64 2004
   • Journal of transcultural nursing [electronic resource]
3. Health Sciences Multisearch - Multisearch offers the ability to search up to ten databases simultaneously and to save your records on your own electronic shelf access using your same CSUN email login and password. Additional, we will explore the native interfaces for the following databases:
4. Databases - consult the full list of Health Sciences databases Find Articles and Research Data- Health Sciences at http://library.csun.edu/xerxes/categories/health-sciences

    

EbscoHost databases - including CINAHLPlus(Nursing) CINAHLPlus with Full Text (Nursing and Allied Health Literature) -- Indexes nursing literature with some fulltext from 1937- present . Also offers cited references searching , the CINAHL subject headings, care sheets ***** PsycInfo -Psychology Literature-indexes journal articles and books PsycArticles -full text articles from the American Psychological Association's journals ERIC (Education) Academic Search Elite

CinahlPlus with Full Text Advanced Search

 

Medical Literature PubMed and Medline ISI both index over 5000 medical journals from 1950- present PubMed - includes Medline and is freely available on the Internet but prefer to use link from Oviatt Library's web pages. In addition to indexing over 5000 medical journals, there are links into freely available Consumer Health (MedlinePlus) resources, several genetic, chemical, full text jurnal and full text book resources. Be sure to use CSUN's link to PubMed which is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=cacsunlib This URL offers you the Find text icon which helps you identify if CSUN subscribes to the journal. My NCBI is a PubMed tool that allows you to save your searches, set up e-mail alerts for new articles, and choose filters that group your search results. PubMed Central has a lot of foreign articles..if you want to get help translating a foreign language article on the web try Google translate at http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en# Medline (ISI) - is part of our subscription on ISI's Web of Knowledge platform. It has a different way of presenting medical subject headings than PubMed and you have easy access to EndNote Web, a bibliographic management software package, which helps you with APA style.

Citation display journal vol.issue, year, pages title of article author(s) abstract (60% of records offer an abstract) Publication Type MESH terms--e.g. ethnology culture cultural cross cultural multicultural transcultural

4. Learn about the link most of Oviatt Library subscription databases .

Also, you can enable Google Scholar to link into our Find Text (SFX) menus-- You can find items the Oviatt Library owns using its Scholar Preferences at http://scholar.google.com/scholar_preferences?hl=en&lr=&output=search

In the box next to Library Links type "CSUN" and click Find Library.

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

5. Register for CSUN's Interlibrary Loan

6. Learn about Citation guides and Citation tools most of our databases offer

• You can use EndNote Web | to collect and manage your citations and format in APA 6th style. Remember to check the format of the citations in your Works Cited or reference list against the styles pages below before submitting your paper.
• APA Style

• Sample Style Sheet for APA Bibliographic Citations (PDF) by Dr. Karin Durán
• APA Style Guide (PDF) by Eric Garcia
• Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association.

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