HSCI 336: Health Aspects of Drug Use

Professor: Sarayu Vasan

Librarian: Marcia Henry - Health Sciences Librarian.  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/tipshs336.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 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 . Most databases offer Find Text link for each record which helps you identify is CSUN owns the item. If CSUN does not own the item, it will offer a link to the ILL loan service.
• Learn how to find and evaluate Internet resources

Books (Find books, videos, government documents, and journals)

Library Catalog indexes items owned by Oviatt Library. The following are some recommended subject headings. Please remember to check related subject headings also. Keyword searching is also recommended.

• Alcoholism
• Drug abuse -- see also specific drugs, for example:
  • Amphetamine abuse
  • Heroin abuse
  • Marijuana abuse
• Drugs --history
• Alcoholism

Library Catalog course reserves -- you can look up by course number , i.e. HSCI 336

WorldCat indexes material in all major libraries.  CSUN students, faculty and staff can request material Oviatt library does NOT own by using Interlibrary Loan.

Databases (Find articles in journals, magazines and newspapers)

• 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 native interface of Ebscohost databases (Academic Search Elite, CINAHLPlus with FullText, PsycInfo), and Gale databases (Health Reference Center Academic) -lookup related subject headings to help focus on your topic

EBSCOHost

Gale

Websites

• MedlinePlus is a freely available internet website which offers good, authoritative, health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions. MedlinePlus can be bookmarked at the URL: http://www.medlineplus.gov.
  • Drug Abuse - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/drugabuse.html
  • Alcoholism - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/alcoholism.html

Citing Your Sources

Remember to always cite your sources. Help is available at http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/e-books/estylegd.html

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