Title: Electronic Resources for the Health Sciences
1Electronic Resources for the Health Sciences
- Nurse Education
- Spring, 2004
2What Were Talking About
- Print Resources
- Books
- Periodicals
- Electronic Resources
- Databases
- Reference
- The Web
3Print Resources
- John Wood Community College Library (Library
Homepage) - Other libraries
- Brenner Library Quincy University
- Blessing Reiman
- Quincy Public Library
- Illinet Online
4Electronic Resources
- Databases access from Library HomePage
- EbscoHost
- FirstSearch
- Infotrac
- Newspapers
- Reference access from Library Home Page
- Physicians Desk Reference
- Oxford Reference Online
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Oxford English Dictionary
- The Web - access from Library Home
Page
5Talk about Searching
- Keyword
- Any word that appears in any field of an online
record - Search single words, phrases, and combinations of
words or phrases - Powerful technique
- Subject
- Assigned using a controlled thesaurus
- Official list of standard acceptable headings
- Library of Congress
- National Library of Medicine
6Searching Tips
- Use Boolean Operators AND, OR, NOT
- Limit search to specific title
- And/or restrict the search to a particular date
range - Stopwords commonly used words such as articles,
pronouns and prepositions - Examples the, for and of
- When searching strings that contain stopwords or
a Boolean operator, use quotation marks.
7Using Boolean OperatorsFine Tuning Your Search
- Overly general too many hits
- Overly specific too few hits
- AND, OR, NOT link search words together
- Boolean Operators narrow or broaden a search
- Help better express specific terms and retrieve
the exact information quickly
8The AND Operator
- Narrows search
- Linking key terms together defines the search and
reduces the number of results - Example women and drugs
9The AND Operator
- Narrows search
- Stringing key terms together defines the search
and reduces the number of results - Example high risk AND injury
- Retrieves results that reference high risk
injuries
10Example search for women AND drug abuse
Quaratiello, Arlene Rodda. The College Students
Research Companion. New York Neal- Schumann,
1997. p. 22
Set 3
11The OR Operator
- Broadens search
- Terms linked by the OR operator are searched
simultaneously and independent of each other - Example high risk AND injury OR trauma
- Results either term or trauma
12The NOT Operator
- Narrows the search
- Helps filter out specific topics you dont want
as part of your search - Example high risk OR injury NOT trauma
- Results contain high risk or injury but not
trauma
13Grouping Terms Using Parenthesis
- Used to control search query
- Without ( ) search executed from left to right
- Words enclosed in ( ) are searched first
- ( ) ALLOWS YOU TO CONTROL AND DEFINE THE WAY
THE SEARCH IS EXECUTED - The left search terms in ( ) are searched first
- Based on those results the second search strategy
is searched
14Results
- Generalized Search heart OR lung AND blood or
oxygen - Focused Search (heart OR lung) AND (blood or
oxygen) - Generalized Search retrieves everything on heart
as well as references to the lung and blood and
everything on oxygen - Focused Search only find articles about heart or
lung that refer to blood or oxygen
15EBSCOHOST PRE-CINHAL
- Companion database to CINAHL
- Current awareness of new journal articles
- Rotating file
- Included articles available only for a short
period of time - Ultimately added to CINAHL
16EbscoHost CINAHL
- Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
- Indexing and Abstracting to 1,600 current nursing
and allied health journals and publications
dating back to 1982 - 700,000 records
- Full text for 56 journals and legal cases,
clinical innovations, critical paths, drug
records, research instruments and clinical trials
17- Complete coverage of English-language nursing
journals - Publications from the National League for Nursing
and the American Nurses Association - Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences
librarianship, alternative/complementary
medicine, consumer health - Also includes 17 allied health disciplines
- Library Home Page
18Using CINAHL Subject Headings
- Controlled vocabulary thesaurus
- Assists with searching the CINAHL database
- Assist in finding the most appropriate subject
heading - Arranged in a hierarchy or tree structure
- Defaults to an alphabetical listing of subject
headings - Browsing this list provides a relevancy ranked
list of related descriptors
19Other EbscoHost Resources- Library HomePage
- USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient
- HealthSource Nursing/Academic Edition
- HealthSource Consumer Edition
20USP DI
- Patient-oriented drug information in lay language
- Pronunciation of drugs
- Special considerations such as age, allergies,
pregnancy and breast-feeding - Full-text
- Uses Boolean Operators and ( )
21USP DRUG INDEX AUTHORITY FILED DEFINITION
- Alphabetical list with cross references from Drug
Brand Names and Drug Generic to controlled,
authoritative Drug Names - Updated quarterly
- Useful if you know only partial drug terms or
brand name
22HEALTHSOURCE NURSING/ACADEMIC EDITION
- 580 scholarly full text journals focused on
medical disciplines - Abstracts and indexing for over 615 journals
- Includes USP Pharmacopoeia DI
- Stedmans Medical Dictionary access to
terminology in genetics, oncology, pediatrics,
etc.
23HEALTHSOURCE CONSUMER EDITION
- Alternative resource to finding authoritative
information on health-related issues - Search for information on many health topics
including medical sciences, food sciences and
nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general
health - Searchable full text for over 190 journals
including Consumer Reports on Health and Mens
Health - Includes 20 health research books Stedmans
Medical Dictionary.
24About FirstSearch
- Public access collection of databases
- Search a world-wide database of books and
journals - Some full-text
- Available off campus
- Librarys Home Page
25FirstSearch Databases ECO
- Includes bibliographic information for all
journals - View abstracts and full-text articles from
journals JWCC subscribes - 1995 to present
- Subjects in addition to medicine include
psychology, science, social sciences, law
26MEDLINE
- Corresponds to print indexes for Index Medicus,
Index to Dental Literature and International
Nursing Index - Covers 1965 present
- No full-text unless linked by the vendor
- Substantial abstracts
27Evaluating Medical Resources on the WebTen
Things to Know
- Who runs the site? It should be easy for you to
find who is responsible for the site and its
information - Who pays for the site? Web sites cost source of
funding should be clearly stated or readily
apparent - What is the purpose of the site? Look for about
this site link purpose should be clearly stated
and help you evaluate the trustworthiness of the
site
28- Where does the information come from? Most
health/medical sites collect information from a
variety of other sites original source of the
information should be clearly labeled. - What is the basis of the information? Describe
the evidence the information is based on,
references cited, evidence-based clearly set apart
29- How is the information selected? Who reviews
material before posted and is there an editorial
board, a list of experts - How current is the information? Most recent
update or review date is clearly posted - How does the site choose links to other sites?
Look for a policy that lists links criteria,
fee-based, simple submission
30- Can you contact the site owners? You may want to
make suggestions, voice problems and concerns or
ask questions - PRIVACY what information is collected about
you, the site should tell you exactly what they
will do with any information collected about you
read and understand the privacy policy, dont
sign up for anything you do not fully understand
31Citing and Evaluating Sources
- Electronic citations should follow the same basic
format as their print counterparts, with the same
goal in mind---to provide readers with a way to
locate the information you provided themselves - It is your responsibility to evaluate electronic
sources carefully before using them. REMEMBER
anyone can publish on the Web.
32The APA Style Manual
- APA American Psychological Association
- Current edition is 5th edition (R 808 Ame)
- APA ONLINE www.apastyle.org/index.htm
33Internet Sources
- PubMed www.pubmed.org
- AMA Medem www.medem.com/
- Healthfinder www.healthfinder.gov/
- HIV Insight http//hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite
- Mayo Clinic www.mayoclinic.com/index.cfm
- National Womens Health Information Center
http//www.4woman.org/ - NOAH http//www.noah-health.org/
- Oncolink www.oncolink.org
34More Sites
- HealthLinks http//healthlinks.washington.edu/
- Centers for Disease Control Prevention
http//www.cdc.gov/ - National Network of Libraries of Medicine
- Greater Midwest Region http//nnlm.gov/gmr
35AND MORE
- National Cancer Institute www.cancer.gov
- Health Sciences Library System/Health Statistics
www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/internet/stats - Center for Science in the Public Interest
- www.cspinet.org/
36Pat Woodworth, Director woodworth_at_jwcc.edu Sarah
Laaker, Library Support Specialist slaaker_at_jwcc.ed
u Kathy McClintic, Part-time Reference mcclintick_at_
jwcc.edu
Cheri Weyerman, Public Services
Supervisor weyermann_at_jwcc.edu Linda Finnamore,
Library Support Circulation finnamore_at_jwcc.edu
Circulation Desk 217-641-4537 Reference
217-641-4564 or ResourceHelp_at_jwcc.edu
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