nursing writing seminar

Success @ HML = Success @ ONUProfessors Kathleen Baril, Jenny Donley, & Kelly Kobiela

Librarians at Heterick Memorial Library

WELCOME to the LIBRARY

Today’s goals• Introduce you to the staff and

resources available to you as Ohio Northern University students

• Get you started on the Writing Seminar research assignment

Heterick Librarians

Kathleen Baril

Jenny Donley

Kelly Kobiela

First stop: Heterick’s Webpage

www.onu.edu/library

Research Guides

Or just go to: http://libguides.onu.edu/writing1nurses

Nursing Research Guide

• Start big doing background reading

• Narrow your topic for a more focused product

• Research narrowed topic using subject specific databases

• Keep track of bibliographic citations to avoid trouble down the road.

Refworks

Research Strategy

Research Tools

• Catalogs – used for locating books, eBooks, DVDs, maps, musical scores, govt. documents, etc.

• Databases – used primarily for locating periodical and newspaper articles, but may cover other materials as well

Heterick Memorial Library (HML)

Undergraduate library, but

accessible to all

Taggert Law Library (LAW)

Law school library, but

accessible to all

Libraries at ONU

Catalogs• POLAR: Physical and

electronic items located at HML as well as Law Library

• OhioLINK: Next step if you can’t find what you want in the HML collection

• ILL: option of last resort

Off Campus Access

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Please use all digits in your student ID number.

• The OhioLINK catalog contains materials owned by a consortium of Ohio colleges, universities, and several public libraries

• A link within POLAR permits you to submit requests

• Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days• No charge • Only 25 requests at a time• May keep up to 84 days

Find a Book: OhioLINK

Find an Article

● A periodical is something that is published at regular intervals. Magazines and journals are both periodicals, however…

● Magazines are periodicals that contain more popular content. They tend to have glossy pages, lots of pictures, and can be read and understood by the general public. They contain shorter articles written by a staff of journalists.

● Journals are periodicals that contain scholarly and peer-reviewed articles, written by scholars and researchers, that are aimed at professionals in the field. The articles are longer and have extensive bibliographies at the ends of the articles.

• Library databases are tools used for locating journal and newspaper articles

• Most are subject-specific, some are multi-disciplinary

• Many give access to full text of articles

• Heterick has 200+ databases

• Available from Heterick home page: www.onu.edu/library

Find an Article: Databases

Click on Databases

Find an Article

Find an Article

Databases

BIG THREE +1

• CINAHL Plus with Full Text | Off Campus Access

• Health Source : Nursing/Academic Edition | Off Campus Access

• Proquest Nursing and Allied Health Source | Off Campus Access

• Academic Search Complete | Off Campus Access

Nursing Database

s

Remember to click the “Off

Campus Access” link

for each database and

enter your name and all

of the digits in your student ID number.

Off Campus Access Problems?

• Still having problems? Contact our Systems Librarian by emailing k-kobiela@onu.edu and include the following information:−Name of database−Description of error

messages−Date/time−Mention that you are

working off campus

• Are you sure you clicked the “Off Campus Access link and not the name of the database for access?

Start with a general database

Academic Search Complete is an

EbscoHost supported database

Sign up for a free EbscoHost account

• See the document “How to create an EbscoHost account” under the Database/Journals tab on the Research Guide

• Good for all EbscoHost supported databases

Now What?

• Consider your search strategy

• Identify words and phrases that will return articles relevant to your topic

• Look at the subject headings and keywords in the articles that are returned to come up with new words to search

• Most databases have a subject list for suggestions

Academic Search Complete

• See what terminology the database suggests

• Type in suggested terms or your search strategy

• Check the “Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals” box to limit your search

Results List

• Use the facetted menu on the left hand side of the screen to narrow your search by:

• Publication date• Suggested

subject• Geography• Language

Refine by date

Slide bar over to narrow to publication period

specified by the assignment. “Current” is

usually last 5 years.

Refine by suggested subject term

Refine by language of published article

• More articles are being published in the language of origin for the research itself

• Unless you can read Turkish, this article will be of little use to you

Refine by geography

Reviewing the results list

• Narrowed from 3683 by using the facets

• Place cursor on magnifying glass to read abstract

• Click on PDF full text or html or Find it @ ONU

Saving what you find

1. Save articles that you’ll want to access again by clicking on the folder icon and storing them in your My EbscoHost account

2. Click on the folder icon to review your saved articles.

Open folder and…

• Click on “Folder”• Send articles via email• Save to flash drive or hard

drive

CINAHL

• CINAHL will automatically suggest subject terms unless you uncheck the box

• CINAHL has it’s own specialized vocabulary. Click on “CINAHL Headings” for a complete listing of all subject headings

CINAHL (Subject) Headings

CINAHL results list

• CINAHL is an EbscoHost database so follow the Academic Search Complete database directions to narrow your results list and save articles to your folder

Proquest Nursing

• Not an EbscoHost supported database but works in a similar fashion

• Faceted menu located in a different place

Proquest Nursing

• Click here for peer reviewed articles

• Click here to look up subject headings

• Uses MedLine’s subject heading list called MeSH

• There are a variety of ways to narrow your search there are not available in EbscoHost products

Results list • Faceted menu on the right

• Suggested subjects appear at top

• Most articles are available as pdf full text

Results list• Click on

“Citation/Abstract” link or on “Preview”

• Click on “Full text - PDF” for article as it originally appeared in the journal

• Click in box to right of entry to save

Sign up for a free account

• Click on box to right to save article

• Click on “save to my research”

• When this box comes up, click on “Create my research account” and follow instructions

What about the Internet?• See article on “How to

effectively evaluate websites” under the Database/Journals tab on the Research Guide

Help/Instruction

• Ask in person or call:− Front Desk phone: (419) 772-2181− Reference Desk phone: (419) 772-2185

• Librarians on Reference:− Monday – Friday

• 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM− Monday - Wednesday

• 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

• Contact by email: − Reference email: reference@onu.edu− Kathleen Baril: k-baril@onu.edu− Jenny Donley: j-donley.1@onu.edu− Kelly Kobiela: k-kobiela@onu.edu

Questions?