Electronic Resources for the Health Sciences

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Electronic Resources for the Health Sciences

• Nurse Education
• Spring, 2004

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What Were Talking About

• Print Resources
• Books
• Periodicals
• Electronic Resources
• Databases
• Reference
• The Web

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Print Resources

• John Wood Community College Library (Library
  Homepage)
• Other libraries
• Brenner Library Quincy University
• Blessing Reiman
• Quincy Public Library
• Illinet Online

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Electronic 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

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Talk 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

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Searching 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.

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Using 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

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The AND Operator

• Narrows search
• Linking key terms together defines the search and
  reduces the number of results
• Example women and drugs

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The 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

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Example search for women AND drug abuse
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The 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

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The 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

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Grouping 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

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Results

• 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

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EBSCOHOST 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

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EbscoHost 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

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• 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

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Using 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

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Other EbscoHost Resources- Library HomePage

• USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient
• HealthSource Nursing/Academic Edition
• HealthSource Consumer Edition

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USP 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 ( )

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USP 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

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HEALTHSOURCE 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.

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HEALTHSOURCE 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.

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About FirstSearch

• Public access collection of databases
• Search a world-wide database of books and
  journals
• Some full-text
• Available off campus
• Librarys Home Page

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FirstSearch 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

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MEDLINE

• 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

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Evaluating 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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Citing 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.

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The APA Style Manual

• APA American Psychological Association
• Current edition is 5th edition (R 808 Ame)
• APA ONLINE www.apastyle.org/index.htm

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Internet 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

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More 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

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AND 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/

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Laaker, Library Support Specialist slaaker_at_jwcc.ed
u Kathy McClintic, Part-time Reference mcclintick_at_
jwcc.edu
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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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