Library Resources Workshop

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Library Resources Workshop

• N302
• Spring 2008
• Brought to you by Ebling Library

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Today we will

• Create a roadmap for upcoming N302 assignment
• Review characteristics of scholarly, and
  popular/lay literature
• Locate appropriate databases for each
• Illustrate search options
• Review information

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Scholarly or Popular?

• Take a few minutes to
• List three characteristics of each type of
  publication
• Discuss with others
• Turn over when complete for later

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Assignment w/o Roadmap
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Assignment Complete
Your Topic
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Popular Literature

• Much information appears here 1st
• Not peer-reviewed
• Information may not be based on scientific
  review/analysis
• Is widely available and serves a purpose
• Is read by your patients!

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Starting Points General Resources
Readers Guide
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Scholarly Literature

• Based on research and scientific review
• Peer-reviewed, refereed
• Includes support information such as tables,
  charts, references, data
• Authors credentials and credibility obvious
• Directed toward academic, research, professional
  populations

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Starting Points Health Sciences
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Q. Will Cranberry Juice Help With Bladder
Infections?
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Starting Points General Resources
Readers Guide
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Quick Search Function
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Cranberries UTI
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Starting Points Health Sciences
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Cranberries UTI
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Cranberries UTI
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Cranberries UTI
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Cranberries UTI
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Citation
Availability
Help!
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Review

• Popular Article
• Select your topic
• Select Readers Guide database (or other general
  purpose databases)
• Conduct search
• Choose article

• Scholarly Article
• Use same topic
• Access PubMed from Ebling Web page
• Conduct search
• Limit to review articles
• Choose article

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Helpful Hints

• Databases with popular resources
• Readers Guide
• Academic Search
• ProQuest Research Library

• Why access PubMed from Ebling page?
• Will prompt proxy authentication
• Will lead to full-text options
• Access this way from anywhere
• FindIT feature

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Lets practice (turn over yellow sheet)
Popular
Scholarly
Article Type
In-depth, research, often peer-reviewed
Brief, quick facts, interviews, newsie
Authors
Defined credentials, subject experts, scholars
Staff writers, no name
Documentation
Footnotes, endnotes, added references
Not much added
Writing Style
Formal, scholarly language, technical
Informal, non-technical, easy to read
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Available athttp//ebling.library.wisc.edu/nursin
g/index.cfm
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Assignment Roadmap
Assignment Complete
Your Topic
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http//www.library.wisc.edu/instruction/refworks/
RefWorks
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Thanks!

• Questions?
• Ulrike Dieterle, SoN Library LiaisonEbling
  Library, Room 2337 608.262.8025udieterle_at_wisc.ed
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