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Nursing resources & research tutorial
This tutorial provides an overview of resources for nursing students conducting research from a distance, including databases like CINAHL, PubMed, and PsycINFO. It discusses evaluating information sources, developing search strategies, and organizing research materials. The tutorial aims to help students understand scholarly resources, demonstrate database usage, identify subject-specific sources, and utilize discussed search and citation management tools for their academic needs.
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- 1. Nursing Resources & Research Tutorial: Distance Learners Instruction, Reference & Distance Education Librarian Seth M. Porter
- 2. Tutorial Outline Learning Outcomes Evaluating Information The Research Process Searching Tips Research Resources Nursing Specific Resources Organizational Resources & Tools Contact Information
- 3. LEARNING OUTCOMES Students will be able to explain the difference between scholarly and non-scholarly research resources Students will be able to demonstrate the use of research resources Students will be able to list subject specific nursing databases Students will utilize search strategies and resources discussed to begin article research for their academic needs
- 4. Evaluating information •When you pull an article, book or journal you want to make sure it is relevant to you and your specific information needs. • This could mean a lot of different things depending on the research topic. • Regardless of your research needs an easy way to make sure your information quality is appropriate is to make sure it passes the “CRAAP” Test • For example if your needs involve a Peer Reviewed academic article, it would most likely pass the CRAAP test without critical investigation. But if you found a great Health/Nursing article on the open web or even a blog, you would want to make sure it passes as well as doing more due diligence on the author to check their creditability
- 5. Use this worksheet as a way to test your information resources.
- 6. Information Gathering: Theresearch process 1. Identify Information resources to access: E.G, Specific Databases, Journals and more. 2. Break down research idea or topic into searchable phrases 3. Identify Keywords to search 4. Use AND to Connect Search Terms for a more specific retrieval process 5. Use OR with alternative keywords for a larger but less precise information recall
- 7. Search tips Potential Research idea: How to deal with the emotionally draining effects of tending for the patients under a nurses care; what are the most effective coping procedures for nurses? Break down the idea or research topic into keywords, EG: Emotional effects, coping procedures, nurses, patients Use synonyms when searching to retrieve better results Use technical and subject specific professional terms when applicable
- 8. Searching Tips •Have you ever found an article that was perfect? • Wish you had more just like it? With a little research you will. • Footnote chasing is the act of finding citations and references in your current article and using these articles for your research.
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- 11. INFORMATION RESOURCES Print& General Resources Books & Journals: http://librarycatalog.uah.edu ILLIAD: http://libguides.uah.edu/ill Libraryguides: http://libguides.uah.edu/nursing OneSearch: http://www.uah.edu/library
- 12. ONESEARCH WALK THROUGH When you visit the Library web page one of the first things you will see is the Big search box called OneSearch OneSearch is a relatively new feature which searches the majority of our Databases, journals, and catalog at one time This is great place to begin your research, but don’t end it here. OneSearch big it will retrieve a lot of information which isn’t pertinent to your research needs. Begin here with a quick search and see if you can find anything relevant then move onto a subject specific database The next few slides will be a walk through and tutorial of using OneSearch. Most Databases are designed similarly and if you can access information on Onesearch you can access it anywhere.
- 13. Simply enter yourresearch topic into the search interface. Use Keywords for a better result.
- 14. If the articlehas a blue “Find it at UAH” we have access to the article, often in full-text which is accessible from your computer On the left side you can limit your search to full text (which means it will only Retrieve articles accessible fully online), Peer reviewed, date and more. This is a great way to narrow your search and make it more relevant. The article in its full form is available as a PDF.
- 15. The abstract isan overview of the article. Always read the abstract first to see if the article is relevant to your needs. Full text version of the article will be placed here. This is the tools bar which lets you create a folder for your articles, print, email, save, cite and more with your information. Most databases have this feature. Keep an eye out because they are valuable tools.
- 16. General Databases Rememberyou can access this information remotely! • Academic Search Complete • Wiley Online Library • Opposing viewpoints • JSTOR • Google Scholar
- 17. General Databases cont. • Academic Search Complete • Academic Search Complete is a valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. The best database for general or multi-disciplinary research • Opposing Viewpoints • One-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles • JSTOR • JSTOR provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. This is great for general research
- 18. Specific Nursing Databases • CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) • PubMed • Alt Health Watch Health Reference Center Academic • OVID • PsycARTICLES
- 19. Specific Nursing Databases cont. • CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) • Is a comprehensive nursing specific database. This will be your go to research resource as a nursing researcher. It includes searchable cited references including an advanced searching tool which makes it possible to pull articles written specifically by nurses. • PubMed: • A rich resource for the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. This is accessible through AVL and is available after you graduate as an open source resource. • PsycARTICLES or PsycInfo • Both of these databases are multidiscipline with a focus on mental health.
- 20. INFORMATION ORGANIZATION When doing academic research it is important to cite your sources and manage your citations properly There are many reference sources to check your citations There are great tools to manage your information and citations when doing research
- 21. Organizational Tools •UAH Style Guides: • If you have any citation questions this is an overview of the popular citation formats and references. • OWL Purdue: • This is the go to site when you have questions on citation format. When in doubt go to OWL Purdue! • Zotero: • Endnote:
- 22. Organizational Tools Zotero: Citation Management • Zotero collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of your library. This is a free open-source citation manager. It is user intuitive and easy to use, think of like your research i- Tunes. Endnote: • A great reference manager, the basic is free the more advanced is subscription based. Great for building bibliographies.
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