Nursing

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Library Materials

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• Online databases

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• Boolean Operators
• AND
• OR
• NOT

Databases use Boolean logic to locate only those
items that match your search.
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AND

• Use AND to narrow a search by retrieving articles
  that contain both words.

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OR

• Use OR to broaden a search by retrieving articles
  that contain either one of the search terms.

OR is also used to find synonyms.
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NOT

• Use NOT to narrow a search by retrieving articles
  that include the first search term, but not the
  second.

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Truncation

• Truncation, also called stemming, is the use of a
  designated symbol to retrieve variations of that
  word. It accounts for various word endings and
  spellings.
• Example
• educat will retrieve educate, education,
  educator,
• educators, educational
• neuro! neuroscience, neurology, neurological
• Truncation symbols vary by database. Popular ones
  include , !, ?, or . Look at Database Help or
  Search Tips to determine whether the database
  supports truncation as well as which symbol to
  use.

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Wildcards and Nesting

• Use a wildcard to replace one letter of a word in
  order to search for variations of that word.
• womn searches for woman and women

• Use nesting to put search words into sets.
• (elderly OR aged) AND abuse

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Stop Words

• Databases do not recognize commonly used words
• the, at, of, a, an, be, and, or
• When searching databases, leave out stop words
  and search using only keywords.

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Online databases
Click Database Finder to look for category
specific databases.
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Most popular databases for Health Sciences.
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Catalog does NOT contain articles!
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Step 1 Enter search terms or name in Find
This TIP last name first for author
browse Step 2 Select the type of search in Find
Results in keyword, title, author, subject,
etc. Step 3 Select a Quick Limit, if necessary.
Step 4 Click Search button or hit enter key.
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Voyager results
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Result number
Publication date
Title
Relevance ranking
Author
Call number-indicates where item can be found
Location of item Levelland or Lubbock (Reese
Center)
Status-indicates whether or not an item is
checked out
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Citation information!!
Need to find book on shelf
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Links to books with similar subject matter
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Library of Congress Classification
The first two sections represent the subject. The
letter-and-decimal section represents the
author's last name. The last section is often the
date of publication.
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Over 42,000 eBooks
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In order to use the library databases from
off-campus, you must be authenticated. You login
with your SPC domain username and password. This
is the same username and password you would use
to access MySPC and SPC email. For login
information, review the FAQ on Student Email. SPC
Domain Login Credentials (All Users)
SPC domain username SPC domain password
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