Library Research Tips for Health Science 694:Research Design and Methodology for the Health Sciences

Professor: Lawrence Chu

Librarian: Marcia Henry

Welcome, Dr. Chu 's class.   You can email me at mhenry@csun.edu,

or call me at 818.677.3012. The URL of this web page is http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/tipshs694.html

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 use the Library Catalog to find books and journals( Periodicals).  
• Ways to find peer reviewed articles using Library databases
  • 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.
    • setup your own NCBI free account to store records and search strategies
    • learn about MeSH subject headings and subheadings
    • explore other links from PubMed-Consume Health offers MedlinePlus
    • Tutorials to show you how to search Pubmed
  • Cinahl (Cumulative Index to Nursing Literature) , Academic Search Elite both on EbscoHost--offers help in citing under Print, Email
  • InfoTRAC databases including the Health Reference Center -offers help with citing using Citation tools
  • CQ Researcher   Explores a single hot issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, and science and technology.
• Health Science Multisearch allows you to search up to ten (10) databases simultaneously, and offers you an electronic shelf to save records from diverse databases using the same login you use for your CSUN email account.

• Review subject headings different databases assign Use Find text to identify if CSUN owns the item

• Learn about the link most of our databases offer and Register for CSUN's Interlibrary Loan for items our library does NOT have.
• Learn how to get help to Cite Sources

  Style guides

  Why cite? 

  Help is available for APA style in the EbscoHost, Thomson Gale Infotrac, Proquest, CSA databases as well as on the Find Text menus. In Find text remember to click on More Options -Click Save Citation Information, and use pull down menu to select APA, click go. Copy and paste the APA style for the record you were viewing.

• Learn how to link Google Scholar to Oviatt library's 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.

Please report any problems with this web page to mhenry@csun.edu