Info Tools for HSRMP Students

1. Info Tools for HSRMP Students Orientation for Health Services Research, Management and Policy 8/18/2011 Nancy Schaefer 352.273.8417 nancys@ufl.edu

2. Useful “brick ’n’ mortar” UF libraries “Gov Dox” & Maps in Marston Library basement

3. HSC Library • Opens: • 7:30 am Mon-Fri • 8 am Sat • 1 pm Sun • Closes: • Midnight Sun-Thurs • 7 pm Friday (5pm before home football games) • 5 pm Sat • Gator1 card = Library/Copy card • Printing/copying=13¢/page • Recharge thru Gator1Central http://www.bsd.ufl.edu/G1C/ • Study rooms (2nd & 3rd floors) • 4 hr checkout w/ HSCGator 1 • Individuals or small groups • SPSS, SAS software • On computers under stairs, 1st floor

4. http://www.library.health.ufl.edu/

5. E-Services and E-Requests = Doing Library Business without physically coming to the library Getting copies from other libraries of materials NOT in UF Libraries

6. Problems? 2 routes to solution • Phone or email me at 352.273.8417 nancys@ufl.edu • Click on orange Report a Problem button, bottom of HSCL’s homepage, then on appropriate problem category

7. LibGuides • Librarian-created/maintained tools for subject-specific information resources • 2 under the category Public Health/H Professions:

8. Access from off-campus or via computers on campus with non-UF IP addresses When you’re in the proxy, you’ll see .lp in our homepage’s address. Hitting your browser’s Back button will pop you out of the proxy but hitting Launch EZ Reconnect on initial login may prevent you from having to log in again.

9. Useful Databases From HSCL homepage, click Databases. Quick Picks grid (top of Databases page) =“best sellers” Use Alpha list to access other databases: EbscoHost LexisNexis Academic Universe (includes Legal) RDS Business Suite Statistical Insight Web of Science WilsonWeb

10. “Federated” databases • Collections individual databases all on one platform--function & look basically the same with some differences. • Cochrane (evidence-based) EBSCOHost • CSA • WilsonWeb

11. Business Resources • http://businesslibrary.uflib.ufl.edu/ UF’s business library (online only) DATABASES • EBSCO Business databases: • Business Source Premier • Health Business FullText • Regional Business News • Public Administration Abstracts • WilsonWeb databases: Business FullText

12. Legal Resources • UF Legal Information Center – especially its Guides for Non-Law Students • Databases • Congressional Universe • Legal Universe • WilsonWeb’s • Legal Periodicals Full Text = Indexed from 1981 forward, with abstracts from 1990, “select” Full Text from 1995. • Legal Retro = 750+ periodicals from United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, 1908 – 1981. • Ejournal – Congressional Digest indexed from 02/01/1922 forward

13. Building a “Search Strategy” - Basics You can use any of these 4 methods in Google, Bing, and “bibliographic” databases like PubMed: PHRASE SEARCHING TRUNCATION BOOLEAN OPERATORS NESTING

14. Phrase Searching • When you require 2+ words (exactly as you type them in) to appear in all retrieved records in the order you typed them and without any intervening material. “health care” Unless searching with a standardized subject heading, ALWAYS search bothhealthcare and “health care”

15. Truncation Use to capture variations of a word: plural, singular, adverb adjective, possessive, past tense, British spellings 1. Type all common characters in the word. 2. Just before the variant spellings would appear, type the database’s TRUNCATION SYMBOL (usually * but in Cochrane ?) Most databases require at least 3 characters before the symbol deliver* for delivery, delivers, delivered, etc. service* for service or services administrat* for administrate, administrated, administrating, administrator, administrators, administrative, administratively

16. Boolean Operators: AND • BOTH terms must be in eachrecord that is retrieved doctors AND nurses

17. Boolean Operators: OR • Each retrieved record must have at least one of the terms (either one. Can also include both) doctors OR nurses

18. Boolean Operators: NOT • Removes from the set of records that contain the term entered before the command (NOT) any record containing the term entered after theNOT command doctors NOT nurses Each retrieved record must contain the word doctors but must not contain the word nurses.

19. Nesting A single math equation that includes 2+ different operations (x,÷, +,-) requires parentheses to clarify groupings/orders of operations. So do computer searches when a single “search statement” includes 2+ Booleans: (“health care” AND (deliver* OR service* OR administrat*)) NOT childbirth

20. Advanced Searching Most databases, Google and our library catalog have Advanced Search pages where you can specify “Fields” or parts of the citation in which you want your terms to appear And LIMITS

21. Anatomy of a bibliographic record PMID= PubMed ID -- Unique # for each of the 20M+ records in PubMed MeSH = Medical Subject Headings – 1-2 word content summaries applied by humans rather than machine character-matching software

22. Access to Full-Text Thru Databases • In most of our databases, follow the Find it @ UF button • PubMed shows multiple types of access. The left-most button generally links to the publisher: you may or may not be able to access full-text for free. The Gator Orange buttons give you UF subscription access to online but not guaranteed FULL TEXT. The Gator Blue button lets you know we have this volume in paper on the library shelves. The green PubMed Central button links to free full-text from anywhere at anytime. • Cochrane Systematic Reviews are only available full-text thru UF’s Cochrane/EBM subscription. Click EBM Topic Review (!) to get full-text.

23. Grey Literature • Not indexed in “usual” sources like PubMed • Consist of dissertations, reports from institutions, govt agencies, research groups, research foundations • New York Academy of Medicine Grey Lit Report (updated quarterly) • Databases (UF Libraries) • Dissertations and Theses • FirstSearch (federated)

24. Potentially Useful Websites • Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services http://www.cms.gov/ • National Library of Medicine’s Health Services Research http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrph.html • Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/ • Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/ • Campbell Collaboration Library (Evidence based social sciences – use BROWSE) http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/library.php

25. Evaluation Criteria – especially for websites • Authority = professional credentials of creators/sources of info shown? • Objectivity = balanced presentation, sales hook? • Currency = up-to-date-ness • Accuracy = correctness, validity of info • Coverage = depth, uniqueness

26. Academic Integrity is… • Presenting the work of YOUR brain • Demonstrating your ability to understand and synthesize complex info • Who cares? In his best-seller A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink predicted that synthesis rather than recital of facts is what will distinguish the successful from the unsuccessful in the future.

27. Academic Training Wheels • Your professors set up exercises to build your synthesizing “muscle”/skill: multiple choice exam items, essay questions, papers, theses … • You choose to use or not use those opportunities but… • There are possible costs if you choose not to :

28. Student Plagiarism Punishment • 122 introductory physics studentsinvestigated at U Va 2001 • 45 students dismissed • 3 graduate degrees revoked • Investigation into cheating in an economics course at Simon Fraser U in Canada 2002 • 44 suspended • Others failed the course This function can be a false friend

29. High Profile Plagiarizers & The Prices They Paid • Stephen Ambrose • Some profs removed his books from reading lists tho his source documentation was found later • Doris Kearns Goodwin • Suspended from News Hour • Speaking gigs canceled for some time • More or less forced to resign from Pulitzer Prize Board, which was asked to rescind her 1995 Pulitzer prize • Book sales dropped 50% after 2002 accusation • Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg • Allegations 2/11--temporarily renounced his doctorate 2/18/11 • Resigned from Bundestag, removed as Defense Minister 3/3/11 • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Boston University investigation concluded he plagiarized portions of his dissertation. Retained degree but reputation tarnished Image from http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/mlking.asp Image from http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/books/10/13/ambrose.death/index.html Image from http://www.chime.org/infoctr/Annual_MualMtrg/2007.html Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Theodor_zu_Guttenberg

30. Plagiarism What it may cause professors may assume about you: • Lazy • Doesn’t care • Poor time manager • Doesn’t understand material • Doesn’t understand when/how to cite • Vocabulary too small to paraphrase • Too little confidence/knowledge/ability in grammar to even try to paraphrase • Unable to think at higher levels than a Xerox machine • Doesn’t understand moral values/gravity of offense of plagiarism

31. To Avoid Plagiarism (Copying) on Tests: • Keep up with assigned readings. • Discover and use the best way for you to remember ideas. • Recycle/repeat ideas. • Make a crib sheet—really!* • Narrowing everything to a 2”x 3” area is a great way to review and prioritize! • *Just make sure you destroy it before the test.

32. To Avoid Plagiarism on Research Reports/Papers: • Cite sources Give complete and accurate information so anyone who doubts/questions/wants to learn more can find your original source. The Wayback Machine can often locate “lost” webpages. • Paraphrase

33. Cite your source when… • Using words or ideas you found in any medium/format • Relaying information you gained through conversing with another person • Copying verbatim (word for word) exact words or a unique phrase • Reprinting visual materials • Reusing or reposting any electronically-available media • Providing all but the most common statistics In short, cite any words, ideas, statistics, images, tables, graphs or other products that originate somewhere outside of your head.

34. ONLY times you do NOT need to cite your source: Your own opinion or synthesis of ideas OR Descriptions of your own experiences OR Information that is Common Knowledge*...

35. “Common Knowledge” You can generally consider info to be “common knowledge “if • You can find the same information undocumented in at least five credible sources—peer-reviewed journals or websites, edited books. • You have carefully evaluated the information you're presenting and concluded that it is something your readers will already know • You sincerely believe that the information you’re presenting is something that a person could easily find in general reference sources (general encyclopedias, dictionaries ). When in doubt, cite! Often, if your teacher or editor thinks the citation is unnecessary, s/he will tell you so.

36. Direct Quote Rules of Thumb • Directly quote the original author’s words (and then only the most important/relevant ones)if • The loopholes or inconsistency in the wording—or conversely their “iron-clad”ness—is the main point (often the case with legal documents) • The choice of words makes a relevant, important point about a specific attitude or opinion • You absolutely cannot phrase it anywhere near as eloquently as the original. • BUT this is usually seen as the very lame excuse of a desperate numbskull! In any of the above cases, you must cite your source very specifically (page number online message #, lecture date.)

37. Paraphrasing Technique • Turn away from the original. • Summarize the ideas in your own words. • Peek at the original only to check your understanding or refresh your memory. • When you think you’ve gotten it all, write it down and compare it (or better yet have another person compare it) to the original.

38. Checks on Paraphrasing • Is it accurate? • Do the adjectives and prepositional phrases describe the same noun in both the original and the paraphrase? • Do the adverbs describe the same verb in both versions? • Does the paraphrase truly represent your understanding of the original? • Is it complete? • Is any information that is vital to the meaning of the original left out of the paraphrase? • Does it make sense?

39. Turnitin • Software that matches your words with words of papers in its (huge) database or on the Internet • Your instructors check the highlighted matches for quotation marks and proper citation vs. plagiarism • Use the library’s Writing/PublishingPortal or the print citation manual books in the library to make sure you’ve used the proper citation format. • Hint: At the graduate level, some of your best sources may not be covered by the online citation guides. Build enough time into your research/writing schedule to come to the library to check the print manuals so you can cite correctly.

40. Sources of Help vs Plagiarism • Indiana University (focus on recognizing appropriate paraphrasing) http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml • Purdue University Writing Lab brief, clear overview of what is and isn't acceptable practice http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/ • Thinking through Sources for a Paper: http://library.camden.rutgers.edu/EducationalModule/Plagiarism/reallifeexamples.html • “The Cite is Rite” educational game show http://library.camden.rutgers.edu/EducationalModule/Plagiarism/citeisright.html

41. Lost? Confused? Just ASK! Nancy Schaefer 352.273.8417 nancys@ufl.edu Health Science Center Library Information Desk (Communicore Building, 1st floor)