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Research and Evidence-Based Practice – Tourelle
Welcome
I’m Paul Stenis, Reference/Instruction librarian at Chambers Library. We met Wednesday morning to talk about CINAHL, Medline with Full Text, wikis, and (last but not least) subject headings. Here’s a quick review.
Searching CINAHL
CINAHL — (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) is a comprehensive database for articles pertaining to nursing and allied health. CINAHL categorizes its subject matter with a specific set of subject headings. Using these headings in your search yields more targeted results than regular keyword searching.
To use CINAHL’s subject headings, called CINAHL Headings, go to the CINAHL database and click CINAHL Headings in the upper right corner. Then use this handout from the University of Nebraska to walk through the process of searching with CINAHL Headings.
You can also watch this video for a brief demo on how to search with CINAHL subject headings.
Other search tips:
- Limit search to scholarly/peer-reviewed journals
- Limit Publication Type to Research for articles containing research reports
Medline — provides comprehensive in-depth coverage of materials on all aspects of medicine. Directed to physicians more than nurses or allied health fields. Medline uses MeSH, Medical Subject Headings, to classify their entries. MeSH headings are searchable using the same method used for CINAHL. Begin searching Medline subject headings by clicking MeSH in the upper right corner. Here’s a handout on MESH_Subject_Headings.
Other Databases
PsycInfo — is a comprehensive database for psychology materials. Consider checking PsycInfo for information about mental conditions or conditions where mental health might be a factor, such as post-partum depression.
SocIndex — is a comprehensive database for the social sciences. Consider checking SocIndex when ethnicity, economic factors, gender, or age are pertinent to a condition or treatment.
Searching Databases Simultaneously
EBSCO has an option for searching several databases at once. However, the limiters and subject headings vary from database to database, making this kind of search less precise. Still, it is useful in many instances. Watch this video for a demonstration.
Wikis
Go to the PB Works website to set up a free Wiki. PB Works provides a video on how to use wikis on their support page.
Handouts
Have you got all that? Test your searching and subject heading skills with this scavenger hunt.
Still not sure how to use subject headings? Use this step-by-step guide from the University of Nebraska to learn. (This is the same handout linked to above).
The Basics library guide — Consult to review searching techniques, locations, call numbers, etc.
APA Style Guide — Consult this guide for correct information on citing sources
Need Help? Just Ask Us! for more assistance! Or you can email me (Paul) at pstenis@uco.edu.
Good luck with your research!
-Paul
Prof. Tourelle’s NURS 4153 Class–
Quick links:
Scholarly versus Popular
Database Searching
Database Searching Tips
CINAHL Subject Headings
Interlibrary Loan
Class PowerPoint
Citation Help
Scholarly/academic literature versus popular literature
First, just a simple tip: scholarly/academic/peer-reviewed/referred all mean the same thing.
According to our library glossary, peer-reviewed means “articles reviewed and critiqued by noted experts (”peers”) in the same discipline; sometimes called ‘refereed’”library.uco.edu/sp/glossary/index.html
Thus when you’re taking a look at an article from Time or Scientific American, you’re not looking at scholarly articles. Instead, you’re looking at something called “popular literature” or news that is written for the general public about scholarly and or scientific studies, etc.
In short–
Peer-reviewed
- Written by a scholar or a researcher
- Written for academia
- Full documentation
- Original or primary research
Popular
- Written for general public
- Written by reporters or free-lance writers
- No or minimal documentation
- No original research- secondary literature
Database Searching
When you are in need of an scholarly source or even a popular source, you can turn to our library databases (which can be accessed on and off campus with your UCO email username and password).
The Library databases can be found at http://library.uco.edu/databases/
Once on the library databases’ page, you can sort the databases by subject using the upper left-hand corner drop-down box.
Thus, if you were looking for articles about a certain physical condition, you might choose Nursing or Health and Medicine.
If you were searching for mental conditions, you might choose Psychology as your subject…
Searching tips in our databases
Some cool things you can do to make your search more specific or to yield more results is to use advanced search operators.
One such operator is OR
OR will increase the number of results retrieved because it is looking for similar terms.
Thus, if you’re searching for steroids, you’re also searching for performance enhancing drugs, etc.
” “ will only search for words right next to each other.
It’s called a phrase search. If you want to do a search on performance enhancing drugs, you might want to put ” ” around the phrase like so “performance enhancing drugs”.
Otherwise the database will just look for those words separately; not necessarily next to each other.
Yet another trick is the * ending.
This is called the truncation or wildcard ending. Adding a * to a word like athlet* will search for the following words: athlete, athletes, athletics, atheletic, athletism, etc., etc.
CINAHL Subject Headings or MESH (Medical Subject Headings)
In class we looked at the following example from the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Searching CINAHL with Subject Headings handout (http://www.unmc.edu/library/guides/CINAHLHeadings.pdf):
Example: JD is a 55 year old male who is recovering from a spinal injury. He is currently immobilized and will be for several months. You have been asked to locate information on positioning an immobilized patient to prevent pressure ulcers.
We determined that our key terms or phrases for this example would be
- positioning
- pressure ulcers
Now, using our database tips above, we could do a keyword search in CINAHL but if we want to retrieve more relevant results we would turn to the CINAHL Subject Headings. Subject headings are controlled vocabulary. We use them in our library catalog (Library of Congress Subject Headings), we use them when we visit a clothing website such as JCrew.com or LandsEnd.com We follow that site’s controlled vocabulary or the terms and phrases that site has chosen to classify their contents.
For a quick tutorial video on why you might choose a subject heading search over a keyword search and how to set up such a search in CINAHL, please click on this link: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cQnllFnSy
What if we don’t own a certain book, cd, dvd, article?
When you need a book or article that Chambers Library doesn’t own, Interlibrary Loan can usually borrow it for you from another library.
Two things to remember about Interlibrary Loan
1.) Allow 7 days!
2.) It’s free
To search for books, cds, dvds, etc. use WorldCat (http://library.uco.edu/cats/) then look for the “Interlibrary Loan” link in the section “External Resources” on your item’s record page.
For articles, usually when you pull up a result in the library’s databases that we don’t have access to, an ILL link will appear on the “Find It” button’s page. If not, please contact us at the Reference desk for assistance.
You can always fill out an ILL form online by first logging in athttp://eres.uco.edu/illiad/logon.html then choosing the appropriate form (”request a photocopy” or “request a book or visual material”).
My PowerPoint Shown in Class
APA Citation Help
APA Style Guide – Consult our library guide for correct information on citing sources (http://library.ucok.edu/instruction/APA5th.pdf).
OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue) – Offers examples of citing sources using APA (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/)
APA Website Gives updated information not included in the latest APA print manual (http://apastyle.apa.org/)
Knight Cite (http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/) and Son of Citation Machine (http://citationmachine.net/)
Remember when using the automatic citation in EBSCOHost– Always check your results with the APA manual!!
Please remember that if you ever need a hand in with research, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text! You can even comment on this blog’s posting and we’ll get back to you! 
And, you can always email me personally @ alemon2@uco.edu!
I’ll see you around the library!
Amanda
Dr. Arnold’s NURS 1221- Intro to Nursing
Assignment Parts:
Finding Popular and Scholarly Articles
Finding Biographical Information
Quick links:
Scholarly versus Popular
Database Searching
Searching for Biographical Information
Database Searching Tips
Helpful Resources for Citing Sources
Videos
Part 1
Part 2
Assignment Part 1:
Find a scholarly and popular article on a medical condition and critique them.
Scholarly literature versus popular literature
First, just a simple tip: scholarly/academic/peer-reviewed/referred all mean the same thing.
According to our library glossary, peer-reviewed means “articles reviewed and critiqued by noted experts (”peers”) in the same discipline; sometimes called ‘refereed’”library.uco.edu/sp/glossary/index.html
Thus when you’re taking a look at an article from Time or Scientific American, you’re not looking at scholarly articles. Instead, you’re looking at something called “popular literature” or news that is written for the general public about scholarly and or scientific studies, etc.
In short–
Peer-reviewed
- Written by a scholar or a researcher
- Written for academia
- Full documentation
- Original or primary research
Popular
- Written for general public
- Written by reporters or free-lance writers
- No or minimal documentation
- No original research- secondary literature
When you are in need of an scholarly source or even a popular source, you can turn to our library databases (which can be accessed on an off campus with your UCO email username and password).
The Library databases can be found at http://library.uco.edu/databases/
Once on the library databases’ page, you can sort the databases by subject using the upper left-hand corner drop-down box.
Thus, if you were looking for articles about a certain medical condition, you might choose Nursing or Health and Medicine. If you were searching for mental conditions, you might choose Psychology as your subject…
Assignment Part 2:
Find a biography about a nurse.
Searching for biographical information
One way is to visit our homepage and click, once again, on the far left hand side link entitled “Find Articles (Databases). From here, click on the drop-down box in the upper left hand corner (called “Databases by Subject” and select “Biography”.
Description: Biography Reference Bank contains more than 95,000 short biographies and obituaries and 26,000 photographs from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books.
Description: Citations for biographical information on more than 5 million people. Indexes articles, books, and autobiographies for graphical subjects from antiquity to the present. Includes individual and collective biographies from all fields and nationalities.
Also, you can use the UCO Library Catalog to find books over your nursing figure. Just visit the library website and click on Find Books (Catalogs) and do a keyword search or drop the drop-down box on the far right hand side to “Subject Heading” and enter your figure’s name (last name, first)
ex.: Barton, Clara
Searching tips in our databases
Some cool things you can do to make your search more specific or to yield more results is to use advanced search operators.
One such operator is OR
OR will increase the number of results retrieved because it is looking for similar terms.
Thus, if you’re searching for steroids, you’re also searching for performance enhancing drugs, etc.
” “ will only search for words right next to each other. It’s called a phrase search.
If you want to do a search on performance enhancing drugs, you might want to put ” ” around the phrase like so “performance enhancing drugs”. Otherwise the database will just look for those words separately; not necessarily next to each other.
Yet another trick is the * ending. This is called the truncation or wildcard ending.
Adding a * to a word like athlet* will search for the following words: athlete, athletes, athletics, atheletic, athletism, etc., etc.
Helpful Resources for Citing Sources
OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue) – Offers examples of citing sources and other helpful information for writing academic papers.
APA Website Gives updated information on citing electronic references not included in the APA Manual.
Knight Cite and Son of Citation Machine are just two examples of web sources you can use to help format your reference or bibliography page. These should be used only as a guide as they may not be 100% accurate. Always check results with the APA manual.
The Reference Desk has a copy of the APA manual that you may use in the library. The circulation desk also has a limited number of copies that can be check out for limited periods of time.
Please remember that if you ever need a hand in with research, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text!
And, you can always email me personally @ alemon2@uco.edu!
I’ll see you around the library!
Amanda
Prof. Tourelle’s NURS 4153 Class
Quick links:
Scholarly versus Popular
Database Searching
Database Searching Tips
CINAHL Subject Headings
Interlibrary Loan
Class PowerPoint
Citation Help
Scholarly/academic literature versus popular literature
First, just a simple tip: scholarly/academic/peer-reviewed/referred all mean the same thing.
According to our library glossary, peer-reviewed means “articles reviewed and critiqued by noted experts (”peers”) in the same discipline; sometimes called ‘refereed’”library.uco.edu/sp/glossary/index.html
Thus when you’re taking a look at an article from Time or Scientific American, you’re not looking at scholarly articles. Instead, you’re looking at something called “popular literature” or news that is written for the general public about scholarly and or scientific studies, etc.
In short–
Peer-reviewed
- Written by a scholar or a researcher
- Written for academia
- Full documentation
- Original or primary research
Popular
- Written for general public
- Written by reporters or free-lance writers
- No or minimal documentation
- No original research- secondary literature
When you are in need of an scholarly source or even a popular source, you can turn to our library databases (which can be accessed on and off campus with your UCO email username and password).
The Library databases can be found at http://library.uco.edu/databases/
Once on the library databases’ page, you can sort the databases by subject using the upper left-hand corner drop-down box.
Thus, if you were looking for articles about a certain physical condition, you might choose Nursing or Health and Medicine.
If you were searching for mental conditions, you might choose Psychology as your subject…
Searching tips in our databases
Some cool things you can do to make your search more specific or to yield more results is to use advanced search operators.
One such operator is OR
OR will increase the number of results retrieved because it is looking for similar terms.
Thus, if you’re searching for steroids, you’re also searching for performance enhancing drugs, etc.
” “ will only search for words right next to each other.
It’s called a phrase search. If you want to do a search on performance enhancing drugs, you might want to put ” ” around the phrase like so “performance enhancing drugs”.
Otherwise the database will just look for those words separately; not necessarily next to each other.
Yet another trick is the * ending.
This is called the truncation or wildcard ending. Adding a * to a word like athlet* will search for the following words: athlete, athletes, athletics, atheletic, athletism, etc., etc.
CINAHL Subject Headings or MESH (Medical Subject Headings)
In class we looked at the following example from the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Searching CINAHL with Subject Headings handout (http://www.unmc.edu/library/guides/CINAHLHeadings.pdf):
Example: JD is a 55 year old male who is recovering from a spinal injury. He is currently immobilized and will be for several months. You have been asked to locate information on positioning an immobilized patient to prevent pressure ulcers.
We determined that our key terms or phrases for this example would be
- positioning
- pressure ulcers
Now, using our database tips above, we could do a keyword search in CINAHL but if we want to retrieve more relevant results we would turn to the CINAHL Subject Headings. Subject headings are controlled vocabulary. We use them in our library catalog (Library of Congress Subject Headings), we use them when we visit a clothing website such as JCrew.com or LandsEnd.com We follow that site’s controlled vocabulary or the terms and phrases that site has chosen to classify their contents.
For a quick tutorial video on why you might choose a subject heading search over a keyword search and how to set up such a search in CINAHL, please click on this link: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cQnllFnSy
What if we don’t own a certain book, cd, dvd, article?
When you need a book or article that Chambers Library doesn’t own, Interlibrary Loan can usually borrow it for you from another library.
Two things to remember about Interlibrary Loan
1.) Allow 7 days!
2.) It’s free
To search for books, cds, dvds, etc. use WorldCat (http://library.uco.edu/cats/) then look for the “Interlibrary Loan” link in the section “External Resources” on your item’s record page.
For articles, usually when you pull up a result in the library’s databases that we don’t have access to, an ILL link will appear on the “Find It” button’s page. If not, please contact us at the Reference desk for assistance.
You can always fill out an ILL form online by first logging in athttp://eres.uco.edu/illiad/logon.html then choosing the appropriate form (”request a photocopy” or “request a book or visual material”).
My PowerPoint Shown in Class
APA Citation Help
APA Style Guide – Consult our library guide for correct information on citing sources (http://library.ucok.edu/instruction/APA5th.pdf).
OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue) - Offers examples of citing sources using APA (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/)
APA Website Gives updated information not included in the latest APA print manual (http://apastyle.apa.org/)
Knight Cite (http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/) and Son of Citation Machine (http://citationmachine.net/)
Remember when using the automatic citation in EBSCOHost– Always check your results with the APA manual!!
Please remember that if you ever need a hand in with research, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text! You can even comment on this blog’s posting and we’ll get back to you!
And, you can always email me personally @ alemon2@uco.edu!
I’ll see you around the library!
Amanda
Prof. Vessier’s NURS Class
Quick links:
Scholarly versus Popular
Database Searching
Database Searching Tips
Interlibrary Loan
Scholarly/academic literature versus popular literature
First, just a simple tip: scholarly/academic/peer-reviewed/referred all mean the same thing.
According to our library glossary, peer-reviewed means “articles reviewed and critiqued by noted experts (”peers”) in the same discipline; sometimes called ‘refereed’”library.uco.edu/sp/glossary/index.html
Thus when you’re taking a look at an article from Time or Scientific American, you’re not looking at scholarly articles. Instead, you’re looking at something called “popular literature” or news that is written for the general public about scholarly and or scientific studies, etc.
In short–
Peer-reviewed
- Written by a scholar or a researcher
- Written for academia
- Full documentation
- Original or primary research
Popular
- Written for general public
- Written by reporters or free-lance writers
- No or minimal documentation
- No original research- secondary literature
When you are in need of an scholarly source or even a popular source, you can turn to our library databases (which can be accessed on and off campus with your UCO email username and password).
The Library databases can be found at http://library.uco.edu/databases/
Once on the library databases’ page, you can sort the databases by subject using the upper left-hand corner drop-down box.
Thus, if you were looking for articles about a certain physical condition, you might choose Nursing or Health and Medicine.
If you were searching for mental conditions, you might choose Psychology as your subject…
Searching tips in our databases
Some cool things you can do to make your search more specific or to yield more results is to use advanced search operators.
One such operator is OR
OR will increase the number of results retrieved because it is looking for similar terms.
Thus, if you’re searching for steroids, you’re also searching for performance enhancing drugs, etc.
” “ will only search for words right next to each other.
It’s called a phrase search. If you want to do a search on performance enhancing drugs, you might want to put ” ” around the phrase like so “performance enhancing drugs”.
Otherwise the database will just look for those words separately; not necessarily next to each other.
Yet another trick is the * ending.
This is called the truncation or wildcard ending. Adding a * to a word like athlet* will search for the following words: athlete, athletes, athletics, atheletic, athletism, etc., etc.
What if we don’t own a certain book, cd, dvd, article?
When you need a book or article that Chambers Library doesn’t own, Interlibrary Loan can usually borrow it for you from another library.
Two things to remember about Interlibrary Loan
1.) Allow 7 days!
2.) It’s free
To search for books, cds, dvds, etc. use WorldCat (http://library.uco.edu/cats/) then look for the “Interlibrary Loan” link in the section “External Resources” on your item’s record page.
For articles, usually when you pull up a result in the library’s databases that we don’t have access to, an ILL link will appear on the “Find It” button’s page. If not, please contact us at the Reference desk for assistance.
You can always fill out an ILL form online by first logging in athttp://eres.uco.edu/illiad/logon.html then choosing the appropriate form (”request a photocopy” or “request a book or visual material”).
Please remember that if you ever need a hand in with research, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text!
And, you can always email me personally @ alemon2@uco.edu!
I’ll see you around the library!
Amanda
Dr. Steele’s NURS 1221 Course
Quick links:
Scholarly versus Popular
Database Searching
Database Searching Tips
Evaluating Websites
Scholarly/academic literature versus popular literature
First, just a simple tip: scholarly/academic/peer-reviewed/referred all mean the same thing.
According to our library glossary, peer-reviewed means “articles reviewed and critiqued by noted experts (”peers”) in the same discipline; sometimes called ‘refereed’”library.uco.edu/sp/glossary/index.html
Thus when you’re taking a look at an article from Time or Scientific American, you’re not looking at scholarly articles. Instead, you’re looking at something called “popular literature” or news that is written for the general public about scholarly and or scientific studies, etc.
In short–
Peer-reviewed
- Written by a scholar or a researcher
- Written for academia
- Full documentation
- Original or primary research
Popular
- Written for general public
- Written by reporters or free-lance writers
- No or minimal documentation
- No original research- secondary literature
When you are in need of an scholarly source or even a popular source, you can turn to our library databases (which can be accessed on an off campus with your UCO email username and password).
The Library databases can be found at http://library.uco.edu/databases/
Once on the library databases’ page, you can sort the databases by subject using the upper left-hand corner drop-down box.
Thus, if you were looking for articles about a certain physical condition, you might choose Nursing or Health and Medicine. If you were searching for mental conditions, you might choose Psychology as your subject… And, if you were researching a Nursing or Medical figure, you might choose Biography as your subject sorter for our biographical databases.
Searching tips in our databases
Some cool things you can do to make your search more specific or to yield more results is to use advanced search operators.
One such operator is OR
OR will increase the number of results retrieved because it is looking for similar terms.
Thus, if you’re searching for steroids, you’re also searching for performance enhancing drugs, etc.
” “ will only search for words right next to each other. It’s called a phrase search.
If you want to do a search on performance enhancing drugs, you might want to put ” ” around the phrase like so “performance enhancing drugs”. Otherwise the database will just look for those words separately; not necessarily next to each other.
Yet another trick is the * ending. This is called the truncation or wildcard ending.
Adding a * to a word like athlet* will search for the following words: athlete, athletes, athletics, atheletic, athletism, etc., etc.
Evaluating websites
Google ain’t all bad and neither is the Internet 
You just need to be weary of who is behind your information.
Would you trust a .com for medical advice? A website backed by a racist white supremest group for a biographical sketch of Martin Luther King?
When using Internet sources,
Look to the authority of the page’s author (Who is writing the content, what are their credentials?)
The accuracy of the content being provided (How did they procure their results? etc.)
The objectivity of the content itself
And, finally, the currency (How old is the research?)
For more help, see this website evaluation page put together by the Libraries at the University of Idaho.
Please remember that if you ever need a hand in with research, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text!
And, you can always email me personally @ alemon2@uco.edu!
I’ll see you around the library!
Amanda
NURS1221 – Introduction to Nursing – Steele
Hello nursing students, Thank you for attending the annoted version of a library instruction class! I hope you found the information useful. Below I have posted additional information as promised.
Tonya L Holt
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Learn more about using UCO Library ResourcesUCO Chambers Library Tutorial This free online tutorial covers information sources, searching strategies, how to find books, how to find articles and citations and plagariasm. If you are interested in learning more, you can use this tutorial at your own pace.APA Style
APA Handout This is copy of the handout given in class.
The OWL at Purdue (Online Writing Lab) This website offers more examples of writing and citing in APA style.
KnightCite This website will help you format your reference page. Be sure to select APA style on the left side. May not be 100% accurate. Always check your APA manual.
Son of Citation Machine This is another website to help you format your reference page. Again, be sure to select APA style on the left side. May not be 100% accurate. Always check your APA manual.
