Nursing 300
Introduction to Nursing Research |
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Contact liaison librarian Qinghua Xu
Go to AskUs! for a live chat with a librarian, to send us your question via email, or to call us at the Reference Desk.
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| Learning Outcomes |
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After this session, you will be able to:
- Navigate the UWP Library home page to find books and other resources
- Obtain materials not owned by the UWP Library
- Use the advanced search features of nursing/medical periodical indexes
- Cite references correctly using APA Style
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| Finding books and Electronic Reference Sources |
Books in UWP library
Use the Library Catalog to find books owned by the UWP library. Use one of the catalog's keyword search options. Then look at the subject headings used in the records you retrieve. Is there one that describes what you're looking for? If so, click on it to find other books on your topic.
E-book:
netLibrary
Knovel Scientific and Engineering Databases (Science/Engineering E-books)
UW System Search
UW System Search/Universal Borrowing (UB) allows you make arrangements yourself to borrow materials from other UW libraries. All of the 13 UW libraries participate in this program. UB is built on the idea that the UW System libraries together are now one virtual library.
Using the UWP library catalog, you can simultaneously search other UW libraries to determine if the item you want is available. Simply select the "Multi Library Search" link at the top of our library's catalog and conduct your search. If the item is available from another UW library, you can complete an online request form, which will be transmitted directly to the owning library. The owning library will retrieve the material and send it to the UWP library. A courier service runs between the UW libraries five days a week and delivers the requested materials. You can use the UB service to request books and A/V materials, however, requests for periodical articles should still go through the regular interlibrary loan process.
Tutorial:
http://www.uwp.edu/departments/library/guides/guides/uw_systemsearch/index.htm
Books in other libraries
1. To find out about books available in libraries worldwide, use WorldCat.
2. To find out about books available in Wisconsin public and academic libraries including but not limited to the UW System, use BadgerCat.
If you find an item you'd like to have, look to see who owns it by clicking on the Wisconsin Libraries link. If another UW library owns it, request it through UW System Search (see above for instructions). If a public library or academic library outside of the UW system owns it, simply request a copy through Interlibrary Loan (remember, it will take longer to receive items through ILL than through UW System Search!).
Both WorldCat and BadgerCat have special features including the ability to limit to specific format types (books, visual materials, etc.) by marking the checkboxes in the limit type to: area of the search screen.
Interlibrary loan
Before placing an interlibrary loan request, you should:
- Check the UW-Parkside library catalog to be sure the materials are not owned by the university
- Check that the books, DVDs, CDs and videos are NOT available through UW System Search
- Check UWP Periodicals List to make sure that we do not have access to the journal or newspaper, either in print or full-text online
Tutorial:
http://www.uwp.edu/departments/library/guides/guides/illiad/index.htm
Electronic Reference Resources
NursingConsult
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Access Science
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| Locating Journal Articles |
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- Why use journals?
- Journals report "primary" research ; are subject to peer review process
- Journal articles are more up to date than books, which can be dated before they reach the publishing stage
- For some subjects there may be little in book form
- Journal articles tend to be concise and detailed
Scholarly journals / Peer reviewed journals
Scholarly journals:
- contain articles written by experts and scholars in a discipline
- purpose of the article is to publish the results of original research
- the language of scholarly journals reflects the discipline covered
- always have an extensive bibliography of works cited page
- many scholarly journals are published by professional organizations, research institution
- contain none or minimum advertising
Most scholarly journals are peer-reviewed (or refereed) publications. However, articles in some scholarly and professional journals are not peer-reviewed, but are selected by an editor or board. Standards of scholarship in such journals are often equal or comparable to those of peer-reviewed publications
Peer-reviewed journals:
Peer-reviewed journals (also called refereed journals) are scholarly journals that contain articles that have been evaluated by a panel of experts in the field before publication. The review process helps ensure that the published articles reflect solid scholarship in their fields.
Popular magazines are those types of publications that can be found in a bookstore or grocery store. Articles in popular magazines
- are not necessarily written by experts in their fieldscover very current popular topicsmay contain opinions that are not reinforced by rigorous research
- often do not include bibliographies or works cited pages.
Check out more differences between scholarly and popular journals
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/course/periodical.html
A chart to help you to dertermine the characteristics of different types of?periodicals.?Remember to consult with your instructor about the type of sources appropriate for your assignment.
UWP Periodicals List
- Cinahl Plus with Full Text - the Database of Nursing and Allied Health Literature is anindex to English language nursing journals and journals in allied health disciplines. CINAHL indexes the literature of nursing and allied health from 1982 to the present. Articles from more than 1000 journals are covered, as well as books, pamphlets, dissertations, audiovisuals, software, etc.
Nursing disciplines include: Addictions. Ambulatory Care. Anesthesia. Burn. Camp. Cardiovascular. Community Health. Community Mental Health. Coronary Care. Correctional Health. Dermatology. Emergency. Enterostomal Therapy. Family Health. Flight. Forensic. Gastroenterology. Gerontologic. Geropsychiatric. Gynecologic. HIV-AIDS. Holistic. Home Nursing, Professional. Hospice Nursing Intravenous. Military. Maternal-Child. Medical-Surgical. Neonatal Intensive Care. Neonatal. Nephrology. Neuroscience. Nurse Midwifery. Obstetric. Occupational Health. Office. Oncologic. Opthalmic. Orthopedic. Otorhinolaryngology and Head-Neck. Parish. Pediatric Critical Care. Pediatric. Pediatric Oncology. Perianesthesia. Perinatal. Perioperative. Practical Nursing Private Duty. Psychiatric. Radiological. Rehabilitation. Respiratory. Rural Health. School Health. Surgical Nursing, Plastic. Trauma. Urologic.
Allied health disciplines include: Cardiopulmonary Technology. Dental Hygiene. Emergency Services. Medical/Laboratory Technology. The Medical Assistant. Medical Records. Nutrition & Dietetics. Occupational Therapy. Optometry. Podiatry. Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation. Physician Assistants. Radiologic Technology. Respiratory Therapy. Social Service in Health Care. Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. Surgical Technology.
Other subject areas include: Biomedicine. Alternative/Complementary Medicine. Consumer Health. Health Sciences Librarianship.
Hint: Combine your topic with the Evidence based filters for Diagnosis, Etiology, Prognosis, Therpay,Metaanalysis, Qualitative Research
- PubMed is the NLM's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
- MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The database contains over 12 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's . Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. Medline may also be searched via Ebsco, Lexis Nexis Academic Universe and SciFinder Scholar.
Hint: Use the MESH subject headings/subheadings to build your search.
- NursingConsult brings the leading resources together in one integrated online service to help nurses efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions. Mosby's Nursing Consult is the perfect resource for the clinical nurse, the nurse administrators and the nurse faculty. It includes: Patient Education , Professional Journals , Reference Books , Current News , Clinical Practice , Evidence-based Content and Care Planning Tools.
- Health Source Plus (Nursing/Academic Edition) provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1975
Other Indexes
- Biological Abstracts is an essential resource for research on life science topics from botany to microbiology to pharmacology, serving to connect researchers with critical journal coverage. It enables librarians, faculty and students to easily retrieve references to research reported in life science journals. More than 5,000 international journals are monitored to ensure that virtually every life science topic is covered, including agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, ecology, the environment, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, public health and toxicology.
Indexing presents key terms in the same context used by the original author. This allows searching of the database for items, such as organisms or biochemicals, taking into account the relationship between them in the source literature.
Click here for an online tutorial.
- General Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.
Subjects covered include: Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, Zoology
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BioOne Abstracts and Indexes is a unique aggregation of high-impact, bioscience research journals. As an innovative collaboration among scientific societies, libraries, academe and the commercial sector, BioOne is working to help transform the scholarly communication process by providing expanded access to scientific research results. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. Thus BioOne represents a core resource for any college or university library supporting undergraduate or advanced studies in the biosciences, and for organizations engaged in research and development. Currently, there are more than 68 full-text journals in the BioOne collection; additional publishers and journals will be added over time and the database aggregation will ultimately encompass over 200 bioscience titles.
There are two ways to access the database: Search the bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) for, for example, key subject words or an author, review the abstract and then link to the full-text paper; every bibliographic record links to the appropriate full-text in both PDF and HTML formats. The other method is to browse the list of journals, select the journal of interest and view the tables of contents. From there, one can link from the article title to a bibliographic record or directly to the full-text of the paper.
- Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. Cited Reference Searching allows searching for articles that cite a known author or work because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography). To find articles that cite a known author or work, use the Cited Reference search option. Because this type of search differs from keyword or subject searching, you may want to review this short tutorial on how to search SCI.
- SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar provides college students with quick and easy access to a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines. Faculty and students can explore:
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CAS database content created by scientists
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References from over 9,500 currently published journals and patent information from *more than 50 active patent issuing authorities
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Important discoveries that span the scientific century back to 1900
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The latest scientific breakthroughs almost as soon as they are published with references added daily and some patent information as recent as two days ago
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Complete coverage of chemistry and the life sciences including biochemistry, biology, pharmacology, medicine, and related disciplines
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The world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information
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