Library Databases Temporarily Unavailable

Friday, February 22nd, databases accessible through Resnick Library website may become unavailable for several hours during the normal business day. The library will be experiencing updates and reconfigurations for various databases which will leave users unable to view or access any database. We strongly urge anyone that may need to use databases this week to do so before Friday. If you have any further questions, please contact us! You can also leave comments on this blog.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Nursing Multicultural Health Care Project

For your project, you are asked to choose an ethnic group and examine cultural values, family relationships, diet/nutrition - or- choose a religion and examine beliefs related to birth, death and dying.

There are plenty of resources available to you on site at the Library or through the library web site. Read on!

You’ll be using three basic resources for this project:

–Reference handbooks, encyclopedias and other books in the library (see our Health and Culture guide or search in the library catalogs yourself) Great for getting a quick overview of a religion or cultural group.

–Nursing and health care journal articles.  These articles will be more focused on a specific topic.  Use the “E-Resources by Subject” link off the library home page to access the various search engines (CINAHL, ScienceDirect, etc.).   Most of these search engines will deliver the article to your desktop….or you can request the article through Interlibrary Loan. Ask a librarian for details.

–Web sites (see the list of great resources we’ve already located, or try your own searching)

To get started…..click on the library E-Resources by subject page, scroll down to “Multicultural Topics” and “Nursing, Health” to get into the various search engines like CINAHL, World Cultures Today, etc.

How to cite your sources….
The Resnick Library APA guide shows you how to cite the most common sources you will encounter in your research. For more information, ask a librarian.

Let us know if we can help!
Pam, Julia, and Steve

Linking to Full Text Articles from PubMed

The PubMed search engine frequently provides a detailed summary of the article (abstract) along with the list of results. If you’re lucky, PubMed will also link your citation to the full text of the article somewhere else — that could be in another database that the library subscribes to (such as ScienceDirect), or it could link to the web site where the free article is available (from the publisher, organization, etc.).

You need to look in two places to track down your article from PubMed: the icon and the LINK OUT button.

First, the icon: To the left of each citation in the list of results from a PubMed search is a small icon that indicates an abstract, no abstract, or free full text available. Just click on the icon (or the title of your article) to read the abstract. This also leads you to other articles related to your search.

Next, the LINK OUT button: To the right of each citation in the list of results is the word LINKS. Click on LINKS and then click again on LINK OUT. This takes to you a new page where you have options to connect (or link) to the full text of articles in journals from another database — but only if your library subscribes to those journals.

For example, in a search for MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), I found an article in the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, August 23, 2007. The article abstract was available from PubMed, but LINK OUT connected me to the actual article in the ScienceDirect database –which Resnick Library subscribes to.

Try a couple of searches yourself and let us if you have any questions. Also try the tutorials from PubMed. They are short, narrated, and very clear! Link to the tutorials and other help on the left navigation menu of the main PubMed page.

-Pam

Using PubMed for Nursing Articles

PubMed is a free search engine from the National Library of Medicine with access to over 17 million citations to articles, conference proceedings, reports and other documents from medicine, including veterinary science, biomedicine and nursing.

To limit your search to JUST nursing journals, from the  PubMed search page click on the “Limits” tab.  Scroll down to the “Subsets” box and check Nursing Journals.  Then enter your keyword search.

Nursing Journals in ScienceDirect

To find a list of the 160+ nursing journals available to you electronically through ScienceDirect database…..you’re just two clicks away:

1. Go to ScienceDirect. Note: From off-campus, remember to enter your 800# to access ScienceDirect.

2. On the left menu, you’ll see Browse by Title, Browse by Subject. Scroll down and select Nursing and Health Professions (under “Health Sciences” category).

You can then look at articles in a particular journal, or search by subject/keyword across all publications in the database.

NOTE: We do not subscribe to *everything* in ScienceDirect. To the left of each title is a green or white icon indicating SUBSCRIBED (green) or NON-SUBSCRIBED (white). You can also select JUST the subscribed titles (full-text available) in the Browsing menu.

Ask for help anytime by emailing, calling or IM-ing your librarians.

-Pam