Research Toolbox

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Research Toolbox
HSC 2000

• Nancy Schaefer
• University of Florida Health Science Center
  Libraries
• NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu
• 392-1306

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Research a sequence of tasks

• Identify materials on your topic
• Check your access
• Obtain
• Read and evaluate
• Write
• Cite your sources

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Research Tools
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Welcome to the Health Science Center Libraries!
http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/
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Activate your Gator1 ID Card
1. Go to Health Science Center Library homepage
www.library.health.ufl.edu
2. Go to Services/Forms tab
3. Drag down past Forms to Activate Gator 1
Card
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4. Fill out form. 5. Wait 24 hrs. for it to
process
OR get your Gator1 ID card activated in person
at the Circulation Desk of ANY campus library.
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Why?? To access UFs Electronic Resources from
Off-Campus for free
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Accessing library tools

• Connect from off-campus through GatorLink or
  EZProxy
• Go to Health Science Center Librarys web page
  http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/

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www.library.health.ufl.edu
OR
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Database vs. Catalog?(Definitions)

• Databases tell you what
• Articles, chapters have been
• published on a subject, in a journal/book or by
  an author
• Catalogs tell you what
• books, journals, videos are available to you
• in / through your library

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Library Tool Comparison
Limited to items published 2000-2005 in English
on Diabetes Mellitus
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New subject? Start with books

• Give general overview of subject
• May be easier to locate on shelves

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Accessing the librarys catalog

• On the librarys homepage, click on one of these
  Catalog buttons

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Which search box to use?

• Keywords retrieve only the exact terms you type
  in.

To search 2 words as a phrase rather than as
separate words, click Yes radio button at Exact
Phrase?
Organized lists shows whats alphabetically
around your term
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Why we Subject Headings

• They pull together different words and word
  variations that have the same meaningin this
  case, one type of diabetes
• Type I
• Type One
• Type 1
• Insulin-dependent
• Insulin-requiring
• Childhood-onset
• Juvenile

Honestly, would YOU have thought of all these
variations? Or wanted to type them all in?
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Options in Basic Search

• Pull-downs allow you to perform different types
  of searches in Basic Search mode

Even librarians dont use these much!
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Advanced Search Mode

• For more options, click Advanced Search

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Advanced simultaneous searching of up to 3
different concepts -- plus limits
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Searching for a known journal title

• Click on Journals/Serials
• Default Basic Search mode
• Use lower, Browse Organized Lists search boxs
  default Title Begins With
• Type in unabbreviated title words for best results

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Finding Authoritative web sites on your own

• Use www.google.com
• Choose websites whose URLs end in these domain
  names
• .edu
• .gov
• .org
• for
• fewer pop-ups
• greater longevity (websites likely to stick
  around longer)
• less bias/sales pitch than a dotcom

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Web site quality criteria

• Up-to-date
• Does the page/site you want to use include a date
  created and/or date updated?
• Authoritative
• Can you link to a list of the creators and their
  credentials? Does the given info convince you of
  their expertise/objectivity? Beef Nutrition
• Reliable
• Check occasionally if site is still there.
  Dotcoms are famous for disappearing.
• Unbiased
• Two sides of issue shown? Advertise-y
  language? Dotcoms, docs/clinics try to boost
  sales w/ web pages

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16 minute tutorial from National Library of
Medicine on Evaluating the Quality of a Medical
Web Site
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Writing Guides

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigns
  Writers Workshop has Writing Tips , a Grammar
  Handbook and links to Citation Styles under
  Writer Resources
• Writing _at_ CSU has several good sections
• On Plagiarism
• Avoiding Plagiarism
• Using Outside Sources
• University of Toronto on How NOT to Plagiarize
• University of Wisconsin Quoting and Paraphrasing
  Sources
• Duke University What to Cite

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Writing a Bibliography

• Consult the print manual
• Publication manual of the American Psychological
  Association. 5th ed. Washington, DC American
  Psychological Association 2001. 439p.
• At Health Science Center Library
• Call Z253 .A517p 2001
• Reference area In library use only (2nd floor)
• Reserves- 2-hr checkout _at_1st flr Circulation
  desk.
• Circulating regular check out - 1st floor bk
  stacks
• Also at Marston, Education Journalism libraries
  Library East Reference, Reserve Circulating
  Call BF76.7 P83 2001

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3 online APA style guides

• University of Washington Healthlinks APA Style
  Guide
• http//healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/styleguides/
  apa.html (grid of examples)
• U Wisconsin APA Documentation
• Purdue Universitys Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  gives you pointers on
• general formatting of papers
• formatting short and long quotations
• correctly referring to works of others within the
  text of your paper
• reference lists/bibliography at the end of your
  paper.

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More online guides to APA citation style

• University of Illinois Citation Styles Handbook
  APA
• Citation Styles Online! Using Principles of APA
  Style to Cite and Document Sources

(Both are good examples of undated web pages but
5th or 2001 edition is still the most recent APA
style guide.)
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Intext citation guide

• Duke Universitys APA In-text Parenthetic
  Citations

One study found a genetic link to alcoholism
(Jones, 1997).
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Guides for citing sources that you retrieved
online

• APA Style Electronic Formats
• APAs Electronic References

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2 free software packages for creating your
bibliography/reference list

• RefWorks
• EndNoteWeb

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Databases
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Identifying Articles

• Use a database to identify
• which articles
• in which issues
• of which journals
• are on your topic.
• It really is faster than paging through the
  journals!

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Getting to the databases

• Click on one of these Databases buttons

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Useful Databases
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Quick Pick Grid

• Click on the gray icon button for one of these 20
  most popular databases

Health Wellness Resource Center is almost all
scholarly full-text articles
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Alphabetic list of other databases
Click on the red letter in the alphabet under the
Quick Pick grid that represents the first word of
the databases name
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Then click on the database name
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Voila! Youre in!
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Ulrichs

• Provides full titles
• May link to full-text if other tools dont.
• Will indicate whether a journal is
  refereed/peer-reviewed.

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Refereed ?
Author submits manuscript to publisher
Experts suggest changes
Publisher sends manuscript to 2 other experts in
the authors discipline for critique (so also
called peer-reviewed)
Author changes resubmits to publisher
Why? Ensures quality, which boosts sales
Article is published
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Ulrichs Search results
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5 minute assignment

• To better follow Thursdays lecture, look through
  the 14 content slides of Databasics at

http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/help/databasics1
2-18-03/slideShow_1.html
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Questions?

• Call or email me NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu
• [phone]
• Use Ask a Librarian Virtual Chat Reference
  Service
• Call the Health Science Center Library reference
  desk
• 9a - 5p weekdays
• [phone]

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Thank you for your attention.