MPH New Student Orientation

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MPH New Student Orientation
January 3, 2005
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UF a multi-library system

• Health Science Center Libraries
• Medicine, health statistics. Toxicology at Vet
  Med Reading Room on SW16th Ave.
• Library West
• Social behavioral science. Bldg. closed til
  2006 but you can request materials online and
  pick up 24 hrs. later at Marston. Reference desk
  is at Smathers (Library East)
• Marston Science Library
• Nutrition, environment, government documents
• Education at Norman Hall across 13th St.
• Legal Information Center at Publix, Butler
  Plaza til 2005

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http//web.uflib.ufl.edu/locs.html- a printable
map of all libraries on campus
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Library Webpage

• http//www.library.health.ufl.edu

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Activate Gator1 ID Cards Online

• Go to Health Science Center Library homepage
  www.library.health.ufl.edu

Go to Services/Forms tab
Drag down past Forms to Activate Gator 1
Card
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Fill out form. Wait 24 hrs. for it to process
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Why do all this?? For Off-Campus Access to
Electronic Resources
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www.library.health.ufl.edu
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• Electronic ? full-text!
• Maybe only Table of Contents or Abstracts
• Dont expect full-text before 1995
• E-journals journals we get thru subscriptions
  to databases

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Searching
Unsure of exact title?
Type (words of) title
Thenclick!
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Title contains results
Dates available
Databases thru which the electronic journal is
available
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For journals NOT in E-Journals list
Go to the HSC Library homepage. Click on Catalog

• Then click on Journals/Serials

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Use Browse Organized Lists

• Default Title Begins With
• Type journal (NOT article) title
• Full generally not abbreviated title
• Ignore a, an, the when theyre first word of
  title
• Dont bother with capital letters

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Catalog Results

• Youll see one title before your target title
  should appear in the alphabetic results list and
  several after it

Click on title link for more info
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Full Record Catalog Display
Holdings summarizes the run of the journal
(earliest to most recent issue held in library)
All items lists every issue held on library
shelves its circulation status
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Advanced Search
Use this to

• Search multiple terms
• Limit results by
• publication year
• library
• language

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Useful Databases
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To Lexis-Nexis
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For Help with Databases

• Attend the librarys free classes on using these
  databases OR
• Use the Handouts/Tutorials on your own.

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Ask your Librarian . . .

• Helping you is my job as liaison to the MPH
  program!
• Nancy Schaefer
• 392-1306
• NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu
• Communicore Building C2-26E

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Or use the online Ask a Librarian options . . .
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Or visit in person . . .
Reference Desk 2nd floor Health Science Center
Library Communicore Building Phone [phone]
Hours 9-530 Monday-Thursday 9-5 Friday
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Other online library services

• Services/Forms tab
• at top of library homepage
• In library homepage
• left sidebars

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Contact me if you want help.Nancy
Schaefer392-1306NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu