Library Session NURS 307

1. Library Session NURS 307 Rachael Clemens

2. Agenda • Library Overview (brochure) • Your Assignment • Nursing Literature • Database Instruction (Academic Search Elite handout) • Obtaining Material (SFX handout) • Citing Your Sources (APA handout) • For Additional Reference Help

3. Library Guide for Nursing http://faculty.fullerton.edu/rclemens/Nursing.htm

4. Assignment • Find and obtain the full-text of 2 research articles & 2 clinical articles relating to health promotion / well-child care / current parent-child issues • Read the articles • Write a review of each article • Cite each article in APA format • Submit to Blackboard

5. Research Strategy • Identify your topic (may be on-going) • Use several databases to identify relevant articles • Obtain the full-text of the items • Critically analyze the results – are they what you want? Need to revise search? • Write a review for each article

6. What is Scholarly Literature?

7. Example of a Scholarly Journal

8. Examples of Non Peer Reviewed Publications

9. Articles in Scholarly Journals • Research • Clinical / Best Practice • Literature Review

10. Research Articles • Authors construct & execute a study • Empirical, quantitative, qualitative • Easily identifiable in the abstract • Purpose/Objective/Aim of the study • Review of the related literature • Research methodology • Data collection • Conclusions

11. Clinical / Best Practices Articles • Presents information for the professional clinician • May provide an overview of an issue or condition • May discuss assessment or interventions to enhance clinical practice • Some case studies • Procedures • “This is how we did it…”

12. Literature Reviews • Review (synthesizes results/conclusions of 2 or more articles on a given topic) • Systematic Review (attempts to identify and synthesize all the literature on a given topic) • Meta-analysis (statistical technique for assembling the results of several studies in a review into a single numerical estimate) Relates to Evidence Based Medicine Find in Cochrane Library

13. Database Instruction • Cinahl • Nursing & Allied Health • Academic Search Elite • PsycINFO • PubMed

14. Database Instruction • CINAHL • Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature • Primary nursing database • Health Source: Nursing Academic • More full-text nursing publications

15. Database Instruction • Academic Search Elite • Indexes periodicals on a wide range of subjects – including nursing, health, psychology, child development, and education • PsycINFO • Indexes periodicals from the fields of psychology, sociology, health, child development and education

16. Database Instruction • PubMed • Medline • Focused on biomedical and health topics • Some full-text; use SFX/Find Full-Text

17. www.library.fullerton.edu RESEARCH >> FIND ARTICLES >> BY SUBJECT >> NURSING Library Catalog Index of all books/journals in the library LINK+ service to order books from 30 sister libraries ILLiad Interlibrary Loan Pollak Library Website

18. Sample Search • How does breastfeeding relate to cognitive development of a child • Breastfeeding • Cognitive development

19. Recap • Search several databases • Use keywords & subject headings • Limit to scholarly / peer-reviewed • If full-text not immediately available, use SFX to track down article • May need to request material not owned by Pollak Library through ILLiad

20. Citing Your Sources • What? • Tell your reader what information resources you used to help develop your thoughts and construct your paper • Why? • To back up your claims with documentation – strengthens your argument or points • To indicate where you got your information so that other people can follow-up • To give credit to the original author(s) • To avoid plagiarism

21. Citing Your Sources • APA Style • From the American Psychological Association • You will need to create a reference list and use parenthetical references within the text of your paper (2 separate but related actions) • Difference between “quoting” verbatim (requires quotation marks) and giving credit for the general gist of a thought

22. Elements of a Reference • Article • Author • Year of publication • Title of article • Title of journal • Volume (also include issue number if journal is paginated by issue) • Page numbers • Website • Author or responsible entity • Date of creation or modification • Title of webpage • Title/Name of overarching website if not clear in title of webpage • Webpage address • Date you accessed this resource

23. Reference List Entry - Article Author, A. A. (Year of Publication). Title of article: Subtitle of article. Magazine/Journal Title, Volume number (issue number if each issue begins on page 1), pages. Clemens, R. G. (2003). Delivery library services to distance students: A case study. Reference Services Review, 54, 32-44.

24. Reference List Tips • References should appear in hanging indent form; first line at the left margin, each succeeding line of a reference entry is indented. • In titles of books, articles, films, and broadcasts capitalize only the first word of the title, the first word after a colon or dash, and proper nouns. • In periodical titles capitalize all major words and all words of four letters or more. • Periodical titles should be in italic.

25. Parenthetical Reference Tips • If you are citing a work by a single author, use the surname (do not include suffixes such as Jr.) and the year of publication separated by a comma in parentheses: • In a recent study of reaction time (Rogers, 1994) … • If you have just stated the author's name in the text, put the year of publication only in parentheses: • Peplau (1985) defines loneliness as a difference between desired and achieved social relationships.

26. Need Additional Help? • Reference Desk – 1st floor North • Ask A Librarian – from the library website • Reference Hotline (714.278.3284) • Email Questions • Online Chat Reference - available 24/7 • Rachael (714.278.7543)