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Welcome ASBNs - Health Science 310: Professor Martha Highfield
Librarian speaking to you today is Marcia Henry, Health Sciences 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/tipshs310.html
Assignment:
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You want to be sure that each person finds their own separate research article on the topic selected.
Make sure the articles focus very specifically on the concept you are studying. For example:
neonatal pain during circumcision OR
particular type of touch therapy in 'failure-to-thrive'infants OR
pain assessment in the unconcious patient--(avoid the term vegetative state which is too general and not really diagnostic. This type of focus will make your project (and life) easier.)
Meta-analysis (and it usually indicates this in the title) are VERY high quality research. Experimental studies are next strongest--these are often called randomized controlled trials. Correlation studies are next--these are where the researchers are describing what factors are related to the topic. Descriptive studies are ok and they are a description of the way things are without any experimental treatment. Meta-synthesis is good too.
Any of these are ok.
A literature reivew or a systematic review article will NOT work. You want an article that is a report of a research study."
The goals of today's library session are:
- Review 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.
- Oviatt Library Online Catalog
- The library provides 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.
- Controlled Vocabularies, Age Groups and Limits in:
- CINAHLPlus with Full Text (Nursing and Allied Health Literature) on EbscoHost offer CINAHL Headings, the controlled vocabulary CINAHL indexers use to assign subject headings to each record, limits, e.g. age, gender, Evidence Based Care sheets and Cited Reference searching. Remember not all the records have the full text so you will need to use sometimes the Find text icon
which helps you identify if CSUN subscribes to the journal as well as give help in APA style.
- PubMed - in addition to indexing almost 5000 medical journals, there are links into freely availble Consume 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.
- COCHRANE (Wiley)- evidence based literature review
- CINAHLPlus with Full Text (Nursing and Allied Health Literature) on EbscoHost offer CINAHL Headings, the controlled vocabulary CINAHL indexers use to assign subject headings to each record, limits, e.g. age, gender, Evidence Based Care sheets and Cited Reference searching. Remember not all the records have the full text so you will need to use sometimes the Find text icon
PubMed Citation Display
Learn how to use Interlibrary Loan when CSUN does NOT own. Plan ahead -need to allow 2 weeks . Save citation information in Find text offers help with |
Note the Type of Article limits:Meta-Analysis Randomized Controlled Trials
Note MeSH Medical Subject headings
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