N1150, N1152 & N1153Library Instruction Oct. 14 & 15, 2008

Robin Featherstone,

Research & Instructional Librarian (Nursing)

rfeathe@uwo.ca

(519) 661-2111 ext: 86383

http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/nursing

Today’s slides will be available at: http://uwonursinglibrarian.blogspot.com/

Agenda

• APA tips – 5 mins

• Scholarly articles discussion – 5 mins

• CINAHL instruction – All the rest of the time

Really useful pages

• Sample formatting (pg. 306 - 320)

• In text citations– Quotations (pg.118)

– Paraphrasing (pg. 207)

• Reference list (pg. 215-281)– Journal article, one author (pg. 240)

– Electronic copy of an article from a database (pg. 279)

– “Nonperiodical” document on the internet (pg. 273)

Other helpful places...

http://www.lib.uwo.ca/

↓Essay Help

And ...

←APA Style Guide

http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/nursing/

APA Questions

Using scholarly articles for assignments

• Scholarly articles are...

1. Written by people who know what they’re talking aboutprofessors, researchers, etc...

2. Edited by people who know what they’re talking aboutprofessors, researchers, etc...

3. Published by people who know what they’re talking aboutscholarly journals, associations, government agencies, etc...

Think...

Scholarly articles look like this:

NOT this:

And NOT this:

Using web-based sources

• Think AUTHORITY

– Who published it? Why? Be sceptics

• Look for these:

– .org

– .gov

• Not this:

– .com

Searching Google

Searching CINAHL

Finding articles in CINAHL

Start here: http://www.lib.uwo.ca/

Step 1: sign in (if you’re at home) ↓

← Step 2: select “Databases by Title”

Step 3: select “C” (for CINAHL) ↓

Step 4: scroll down ↓

Step 5: select CINAHL→

Activity

• Find CINAHL

Now, before we start searching, decide on search terms

I am looking for information about...

the effect of acne on teen self-esteem

the relationship between alcoholism and child abuse

the prevalence of anorexia among female athletes

Isolate your concepts

• Search: I am looking for information about Brad and Angelina.

Search strategy #1: OR

• Brad OR Angelia

Search strategy #2: NOT

• Brad NOT Angelia

Search strategy # 3: AND

• Brad AND Angelia

Practice Search in CINAHL

• I am looking for information about possible health benefits of eating chocolate and drinking red wine.

AND

• Chocolate AND red wine

Activity

• Search CINAHL for articles about chocolate and red wine

CINAHL Headings

• Will TELL you which words to use in your search for the BEST results

Practice: Use the CINAHL Headings for our chocolate/red wine search

1. Browse for “chocolate” in the CINAHL Headings

2. Find the preferred term “cacao”

3. Select it and use it to search CINAHL

4. Do the same for “red wine”

Getting BETTER results

• Keywords

– chocolate = 324 results

– red wine = 111 results

• CINAHL headings

– cacao = 405 results

– wine = 392 results

Combine terms using the search history

• Open your search history

1. Clear your search box

2. Select your two (wine and cacao) searches

3. Combine them using AND

4. Add them to the search box

5. Search

S1 AND S2 = S3

Activity

• Use the CINAHL headings to search two concepts related to your assignment

• Combine those searches

SAVE YOUR WORK!

• Select “Save Searches/Alerts”

Create a My EBSCOhost Account

• Select “I’m a new user”

Managing results

• Limit your search if it is too large

• Select Search Options

Activity

• Limit your search result to articles published in the last five years.

Adding items to the folder

← Select “Add to folder” to select the articles you want to read.

↑ Click “Folder View” to see your selected citations

←↗ Create a new folder if you would like to save your citations to your MyEBSCO Host account

Use these icons to either print, email, save (as a web document), or export your citations↙↓↘

← Use the “Move To” drop-down list to move the selected citations to your new folder.

Get to the full-text using the Get it @Western button

← Select the “Get it @ Western” button

←Select “Go” to link to the full-text of the article through our online subscriptions.

The link should take you to the full-text of the article.

Look for the PDF link → which will open a version of

the article complete with page numbers (essential for

quotations).

←If we don’t have an electronic version available, try the UWO Catalogue to find the call number for the print version

←Note the call number so that you can find the print version in the library.

FINALLY.... Print your search strategy

• Open your search history

And select “Print Search History”↘

Robin Featherstonerfeathe@uwo.ca

(519) 661-2111 ext: 86383

http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/nursing