Library Research Health Science 2006 Rosemary McGill rmcgillfullerton'edu 7142785238

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Library Research Health
Science 2006 Rosemary McGill rmcgill_at_fullerto
n.edu 714-278-5238
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• Class handout available here

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OBJECTIVES

• Find retrieve materials in the library
• Determine which databases are useful
• Basic search techniques for databases
• Read a citation
• Determine whether an article/journal is scholarly
  or popular literature review or empirical
  research
• Email, print, download citations and documents

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www.library.fullerton.edu
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Library Catalog
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

• LINK - books only not available for students
  taking classes at both campuses
• ILLiad books and articles

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ARTICLES

• Choose database
• Databases A-Z or Find Articles
• (specific database) (databases by discipline)

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DATABASES

• Academic Search Elite
• PubMed
• Social Sciences Abstracts
• PsycINFO
• ScienceDirect

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SEARCHING

• Keep it simple think of key concepts and words
• Put each concept on its own line
• Play with terms
• Look at subject headings in a citation
• Look at the terms in the abstract

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Searching contd

• Limit to scholarly?
• Dont limit to full-text, instead
• Find the full-text with SFX e-version, paper,
  ILL
• Read the abstract to determine the value of the
  article

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Academic Search Elite

• General database for all disciplines
• 2/3 full text
• 1980
• Peer review limits

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Academic Search Elite - fields
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Academic Search Elite - results
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Available full text
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SFX available electronically, in another
database
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SFX available in print
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SFX not available, use
interlibrary loan
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Scholarly/Popular Journals
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Scholarly/Popular Journals

• Peer-reviewed/refereed articles are approved by
  a board of scholarly experts in the discipline
• Extremely narrow (specific) focus
• Language of the discipline
• Long 8 pages is common
• Charts graphs
• Little advertising, few pictures, etc.
• Format abstract, introduction, methodology,
  results, conclusion, references

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Pub Med

• Authoritative source for medical articles
• Many languages, limit to English
• Simple searching works well
• Not full-text, use SFX
• Use Related Articles to find additional
  resources

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Plagiarism

• The submission of material authored by another
  person but represented as the students own work,
  whether that material is paraphrased or copied in
  verbatim or near-verbatim form.
• The submission of material subjected to editorial
  revision by another person that results in
  substantive changes in content or major
  alteration of writing style and
• Improper acknowledgment of sources in essays,
  papers, or presentations.

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Plagiarism contd

• Cite correctly. The library has the APA Manual at
  the reference desk for in-library use. For
  additional resources, from the library homepage
  look under Research, How do I?

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