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Broken Arrow Campus: Jamie M. Holmes Office: Telephone EXT. 6456 (449-6456) |
Tahlequah Campus: Peggy Kaney Office: Telephone (918) 456-5511 EXT.3276 |
Resources
1- Books, catalogs and databases
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Dictionary of Childhood Health Problems Call # Ref RJ26 .G55 2000
The Medical Library Association Encyclopedic Guide to Searching and Finding Health Information on the Web Call # Ref R859.7.I58 M436 2004
The Medical Library Association Consumer Health Reference Service Handbook Call# Ref RA776 .B234 2001
Needs Assessment in Public Health: A Practical Guide for Students and Professionals (Electronic Book - click on the link under Electronic Resource to access)
Search the NSU Libraries' Online Catalog: http://library.nsuok.edu/vtls.english/index.html
Here are some of the subject headings used in the catalog: health, housing and health, health attitudes, health status indicators, hygiene, nutrition, public health, rural health
Use the KEYWORD SEARCH function to find resources that deal with needs assessment models relating to health - most of the results will be government publications (note call number and locate on the third floor of JVL)
Search for E-Books using NetLibrary and/or eBrary: http://library.nsuok.edu/Refdesk/vrdbks.html
Academic Search Premier - This is a general database, which means it contains article citations and full text articles covering many academic subjects. It is one of the twenty-five databases produced by EbscoHost for which NSU has a subscription. It is probably our most widely used database and is sometimes referred to simply as "Ebsco."
Health Source (consumer edition) - This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 300 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Health Source (nursing/academic edition) - This database provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Medline (EBSCO) - MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Go to all EbscoHost databases (you can search them all simultaneously by putting a checkmark next to all of the above and clicking on Continue)
CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature - provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. Virtually all English-language publications are indexed along with the publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. Primary journals are indexed from the many allied health fields, including health education and social service/health care.
Medline (OVID) - Index to biomedical literature (Optometry & Health Professions researchers) Much of the content is the same as the EBSCO version, and most results will not lead to full text.
Medline (PubMed) - PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
MedlinePlus - will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.
National Library of Medicine Databases - An entire site of of resources and databases created by the National Library of Medicine.
Google Scholar - A subset of Google that will bring back scholarly article citations; may or may not lead to full text.
1. Be prepared with synonyms in case your original search produces no results. Use a thesaurus if the database is equipped with one.
2. Pay attention to search tips or help screens provided by each database. Even experienced researchers (like professors and librarians!) can have trouble when dealing with a new interface. Take the time to learn how to use the tool - it will help you to avoid frustration!
3. Remember that most databases allow for Boolean Searching. Use and to narrow, or to expand, not to exlude. Truncation is also useful for bringing back all relevant results. For example, type counsel* to bring back documents containing the words counsel, counseling, counselor...
4. Take advantage of the following sources of help:
- Reference desk: Located on the first floor of the JVL, the desk is staffed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. by reference librarians or other experienced library staff members.
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1. Start early! A lot of the citations your search will retreive may not be available in full text. You'll probably need to use Interlibrary Loan, which can take up to two weeks.
2. Try limiting your search to full text first. Then back up and try it again without the full text limiter.
3. When searching for articles regarding needs assessment models, try your search using both the acronym and then spelled out fully.
General
Sites for Teachers: http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
Can Teach: http://www.canteach.ca/index.html
Teachers' Top Sites: http://www.americanteachers.com/topsites/index.php?a_m=2
United States Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml?src=a
Tom Messner's Search Engine Page: http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~messner/eresearch/e%20research.htm
The Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org/
Internet Sites relating to topics in health
healthfinder: http://www.healthfinder.gov/
National Institutes of Health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services): http://www.nih.gov/
United States National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov.jvlapps.nsuok.edu/
World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/en/
It's important to remember that publishing on the web is very easy - almost anyone can do it! The problem with that is knowing what's credible (worth your time) and what's not.
Here are some of the thing you want to look at or for:
the URL (.gov, .mil, .us, .edu are usually pretty credible);
links to information about the author or sponsoring organization;
links to other sites that are credible;
how current it is
Ultimately the researcher (you!) must be the one to determine whether or not
to use information found on a web site. The following information from the
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.htm
The American Psychological Association originally created a publication manual to provide a common structure for all journal manuscripts in the area of the social sciences.
Many other disciplines (including psychology, the behavioral sciences, nursing, personnel administration and many areas within education) have adopted this as their professional writing standard as well.
In an academic environment, you will often be expected to conform to this standard when writing. At this point, you should be mostly concerned with creating an accurate reference list using proper format and providing citations within the text to give credit for an idea or concept to the source from which you got it.
Print:
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th
ed.). (2001).
The library owns several copies of the style guide; however, only the 4th
edition circulates (can be checked out). There are five copies of the 5th
edition in reference and one on reserve. (
Websites:
Using APA format (Purdue University) - this comprehensive guide summarizes the print version of the book. Click on Your Reference List to find examples of the proper format to use when listing sources you used.
APA Style.org's Frequently Asked Questions