EBSCO for Science Research

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The Intelligent Alternative
Why go ANYWHERE else?
Research in Nursing
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Navigation Organizationof the Librarys Website
Divided into 3 Specific Categories
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Evaluating Information
Are your sources Relevant? Reliable? Objective?
Current? Appropriate? Suitable? Authoritative?
Peer reviewed!
This is where general Internet (Google, etc.)
sources show their weaknesses
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Searching is EZ!
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Typical EZ Search Options
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EZ Search Results
Click on the links to retrieve the desired
articles
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EZ Search FT Articles
Click on the View Button Always the first
button on the left-hand side
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Review the article summaries to find the best
articles
If the full text is available, click on the link
the article will open
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You can expand and improve search results by
using Truncation
Truncation represented by the asterisk (). Use
the to replace the end of a word. For
example type nurs to find citations containing
the words nurse, nurses, nursing, etc.
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Improve Your Search Techniques Boolean operators
and, or, not can
always be used to limit searches
And Combines search terms so that results
contain all of the search words. i.e.
healthcare and China nursing and
leadership and profession and women

• Or Combines search terms so that results
  contain at least one of the
  search words. i.e. adolescent or teenager
  ADD or attention deficit
  disorder

• Not Excludes terms that are not desired.
  i.e. book not review experiment
  not human

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If there is no full text link to an article,
what should I do?

• Email Meseret Gebremichael (618)
  537-6950E-mail librarycirculation_at_mckendree.edu
  
• Request Articles
• Online forms or in-library paper forms
• Received via fax, electronically, by mail or
  courier
• Time needed varies / advanced planning is
  required
• Interlibrary Loan Services and Policies
• Interlibrary Loan Request Form
• Choose Borrow from another library
• Complete request form and submit
• Article will come to the Library and be sent to
  you
• Each request needs your name, contact information
  and the last date the article will be of use to
  you

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STYLE Cite Your Sources Properly

• Let the reader know whose thoughts are being
  used to make the point and provide the
  appropriate documentation
• Avoid plagiarism
• Do your own work
• Give credit where credit is due
• No person shall submit as his own to an
  instructor any work which contains ideas or
  materials taken from another without full
  acknowledgment of the author the source.
  McKendrees Academic Integrity Policy

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Need help? 24/7 Chat
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Bibliographic Style Aids - APA
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disciplines Check out the new You Tube video
tutorials!
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