Library Research Assignment
Semester I Nursing

YOUR NAME: __________________________________________________________

• Print this 10 page tutorial/assignment!
• Use the Meriam Library, and the Meriam Library ReSEARCH Station to complete this assignment.
• Portions of the assignment that require you to make photocopies or printouts are marked with a and a number.
• BE SURE to mark all printouts/photocopies prominently with the corresponding number and staple them, in order, to the end of this assignment. Note: You should only be stapling 5 printouts to this assignment.
• Portions of the assignment that must be completed in the library will be marked with this symbol:

1. Keyword Searching for a Book

• To start this exercise, be sure you are in the catalog, http://opac.csuchico.edu, or follow directions above under "Where?".
• Perform a Keyword search using a term or terms from your research topic, for example diabetes. Enter the term(s) in the "Enter Search Term" box. Be sure the adjacent box says "Keyword." If it doesn't, click in the box and select "Keyword."
  Note: if you use a multi word term, e.g. diabetic foot, enclose it in quotation marks, that way the terms must be adjacent.
• Click on the "Search" button.
• The results of your search are sorted or displayed in "Relevance" order. You can change the order to one of the other options by clicking on "Date" or "Title." (see A below) You can also limit your basic search to only items "available," meaning those items not checked out. (see B below)
  
  
  
  Notice you can also modify your search to include only books, journals/newspapers, online resources or videos/dvds. (see C below)
  
  
  
• When using books, professors typically prefer you to use the most recent book on a topic. Use A, B & C above to change your search to include only "available" books, and sort by date.
• Look through your search results for a book of interest in the Main Collection.
• Print out the results page showing this book  ¹
  • Hint: Print only the page with your title. Use the "print preview" option to determine which page is needed.
• Circle the book title on your printout.
  

2. Full Record View

• View the full record for the title you circled by clicking on the title.
• Print out the resulting screen which should show the record for the book. ²
• Circle the call number, the name and place of the publisher, and date of publication. The publication information is important for citing the book while the call number is important for finding the book in the library.

**While you are still in the Library Catalog, please note the options at the top of the page. Specifically note, the 4th option, "Periodicals List." At any time you can use the Periodical List to determine the availability of print and online periodicals (journals, magazines, newspapers, etc.).

3. Locate Your Book

•  Locate your book in the Main Collection using the call number.

The Main Collection is on the third floor. For a map of the third floor simply click on the location in the record, i.e. "Main Collection 3rd Fl."

For further instruction on reading call numbers and finding books in the library, go to http://www.csuchico.edu/lins/handouts/locatebooks.pdf.

• Make a photocopy of the title page. ³
• Hint #1: The "Title Page" is not the cover of the book. It is the page inside the cover that contains the Title, Author and Publisher's Name.
• Hint #2: Don't panic if the book isn't on the shelf. Simply go to where it should be shelved, grab a book that sits before or after where you would have found your other book, and make a photocopy of the title page of that book.

4.  Locate a Nursing Journal

• Start a new search in the Library Catalog.
• Click on the "Keyword" box and change it to "title (begins with)".
• Perform a Title search for the publication The American Journal of Nursing.
  Hint: Never include initial articles in your search, e.g. "a" "the" "an"
• Look at the Full Record screen for The American Journal of Nursing by clicking on the title.
• What is the Call Number? __________________
• Look at the "Library Has In Print " field which shows you we have a print subscription to the journal. If you wanted to read issue no.1 from 1997 (vol. 97), the "Library Has In Print " shows it is not available in our library. What other issues are we lacking:__________________________
•  Find a copy of a recent issue of The American Journal of Nursing and make a photocopy of the first page of any article in that issue. ⁴
  Hint: Periodicals (journals, magazines, newspapers) are shelved in the stacks on the 2nd floor of the library.

Section TWO: Using CINAHL

Cummulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature

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the "Find It " button

Why? You use CINAHL, Cummulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, an electronic periodical index (database) to access articles in virtually all English-language nursing journals, publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing, and journals from 17 allied health disciplines. The database also covers consumer health, health sciences librarianship, chiropractic, and health services administration literature.

Some articles will be available in full-text either via CINAHL or the library's "Find It" link. Articles without full-text availability, can be ordered via Interlibrary Loan.

Where? From the top left menu on the ReSEARCH Station, select "Research Guides" and then select “Nursing” from the list of subjects. You first see the "Multi Search" tab page that allows you to search many databases simultaneously. We are only interested in searching CINAHL at this time, so click on the "Articles & Databases" tab. These are the best databases we offer to find nursing literature. The best nursing database is CINAHL and is therefore listed first.

1.  Enter CINAHL.

• Select CINAHL from the Articles & Databases page by clicking on it.

2.  Key word or phrase search.

Type a term related to your assigned case study in the search box near the top of the screen and click on the "search" button.

Enter the term you used: ________________________

A results screen should now appear. Above citation number 1 of the results, you should see the number of hits, e.g. 1 to 20 of 45953, meaning there are 45953 citations and the first 20 are being displayed.

Enter the number of hits received: ________________________

NOTE: If "No results were found for your search query" then try another related or synonymous term until you get some results, adn change your response to "Enter the term you used" at the start of this section, section 2.

3.  Refining Your Search.

To keep things simple, we will restrict our search to just journal articles. CINAHL indexes all types of literature, including books, book chapters, case studies, clinical trials, etc. Note the various options in the "Narrow Results by" column to the left of your results.

• Select "Periodicals."

Another way to narrow your results is to select "Search Options" from the "Limit your results" column which is to the right of your results.

• Select "Search Options."

Using the arrows on the Journal Subset box, scroll through the options to become familiar with the various subsets.

• Select either "Nursing" or "Core Nursing" as a subset.

Using the page bar on the right, move back to the top of the page.

• Click on the blue "Search" button.

All results from this search should now be nursing journal articles which include your term somewhere in the citation record.

NOTE: If you have more than 20 citations, you will see blue numbers after the number of hits statement, each representing a page with 20 citations. Click on the blue numbers or the blue words "Previous" or "Next" to view 20 more records.

• Browse through the results list and select a journal article that looks interesting to you by clicking on the articles title.

Notice how each record is displayed, giving you data fields: Title, Author, Affiliation, Source (journal name, year, volume, issue, and page no.), Major & Minor subject headings, and sometimes an Abstract.

• Supply the following information from the record:

Article title: ____________________________________________________________________________

Author(s) _____________________________________________________________________________

Source (Journal title): ____________________________________________________________________

Publication Year _____________

Volume _____________

Issue Number ____________

Pages ______________

NOTE: All the above, 1-7, are needed to properly cite an article in a research paper.

Before continuing you should clear the search limits.

• Click on "Search Options" in the right column, then click on "Reset" at the top of the "Search Options" screen, and click on "Search."

3. Combining search terms.

"And", "Or", and "Not" are words used between terms to combine them. They are called operators and do the following:

AND - combines search terms so that each search result contains all of the terms.For example, antibiotics AND misuse finds articles that contain both words, antibiotics AND misuse.

OR - combines search terms so that each search result contains at least one of the terms. For example, antibiotics OR antifungal finds results that contain one or both words.

NOT - excludes terms so that each search result does not contain any of the terms that follow it. For example, antibiotics NOT erythromycin finds results that contain the word antibiotics but NOT the word erythromycin.

• Using any of the data from the following partial citation data, find the full record/citation and fill in the blanks.  

HINT: Combine some of the key terms below using "and." Also note, if you use "Kiernan," the author, as a search term, change the "Select a Field" box to "AU Author" or you will not receive satisfactory results.

Citation data:

Title: Ask the expert. _______________ a temperature: ______________ _____________ is best?

Author: Kiernan-BS

Source: Journal of the Society of _____________ _____________,  Oct-Dec; vol. ___issue ___: 192-5 (17 ref)
Publication Year: _________
Major Subjects: *Body-Temperature-Determination-In-Infancy-and-Childhood
Minor Subjects: Infant-; Child-; Child-Preschool; Primary-Health-Care; Thermometers-; Axillary-Body-Temperature-In-Infancy-and-Childhood; Oral-Body-Temperature-In-Infancy-and-Childhood; Rectal-Body-Temperature-In-Infancy-and-Childhood

4. Determine availability of an article.

Articles may be available in journals held in the library or they may be available online, also called full-text. Those journal articles and books unavailable in the library or online can be acquired through the interlibrary loan services. The "Find It" link, , or "Check for Availability" link, found at the bottom of many citations, is used to determine availability.

• Click on "Clear" to start a new search. It is found near the top next to the "Search" button.
• Type "Geriatric Nursing" in the search box, do not include the quotation marks, and change the "Select a Field" box to "So Journal Title."
• (OPTIONAL) Type a search term in the second search box.

Note: the two search terms/boxes should be combined with "and."

• Click on "Search"

You should now be viewing a results list with all articles being from the journal Geriatric Nursing.

• Click on the “Find It” or "Check for Availability" link for any article from your results published in or after July 2000, preferably one of interest to you.
• What is the title of the article?

Title: _______________________________________________________________________________

Notice that a new window was opened, the Citation Station, looking like this:

The ScienceDirect link takes you to a full-text version of the article as found in the CSU full-text database Science Direct. This link provides quick and easy access to your article. For articles from other journals, you may see other links to CSU full-text databases, like Wiley or Oxford.

The Meriam Library Catalog link takes you to our catalog record for the journal, Geriatric Nursing.

The Interlibrary Loan link is provided on every Citation Station display just in case there are no working options listed above it. In this case we have two other options, ScienceDirect or Meriam Library Catalog.

5.  Retrieve the article.

Click on the ScienceDirect link

NOTE: Another new window was opened. It took you directly to the record for that article in Science Direct. Not all full-text links take you directly to the article. Some simply take you to the database where you then need to search again for your specific article.

Do not close the Citation Station window because you will need it later.

• Click on the "E-mail Article" option found in the right margin.

Complete the email form:

• Add your name to the "Sender's Name" box.
• Add your email address to the "Sender's E-mail" box.
• Add psalopek@csuchico.edu in the "Recipient's E-mail:" box.
  You can use the email option to share articles with fellow students and your teachers. Unfortunately, not all databases provide an email option.
• Add "N284" to the subject box so that it says,
  "N284 Recommended article on ScienceDirect."
• Click on "send".
  You will receive a confirmation from your professor within 24 hours.
• Click on "continue" on the email confirmation screen, taking you back to your article.
• Click on the "PDF" tab to display the entire article.

From here you may print your article or simply read it.

Now lets look at other forms of retrieval.

• Select the Citation Station window opened earlier by clicking on its icon at the bottom of your screen.

• Click on the Meriam Library Catalog link.

You should now be viewing a library catalog record for the journal Geriatric Nursing.

According to the "Library Has In Print " field, what volumes of this journal, Geriatric Nursing, does the library own? vols________________________

Is the library missing or lacking any issues? ____________ If yes, which ones?__________________________________

What is the call number for this journal?________________________________

6. Test

Now test your ability to search CINAHL:

• Find an article in the journal RN that tells about diet and breast cancer by an author with the surname Weisburger.
• Give citation data, i.e. Title, Author(s), year, volume, issue, page no. for this article.

_______________________________________________________________

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• List the Citation Station options. For example the options for Geriatric Nursing were: Science Direct, Meriam Library Catalog, Interlibrary Loan. What are the options for RN?

_______________________________________________________________

• RN is in the Library. What is the library call number for RN?______________________
  
• Locate and photocopy the title page of the article in RN⁵

Congratulations! You're done. You should now have enough knowledge to get started using CINAHL for a research paper. If you would like to make comments or suggestions, they are welcome and may help future nursing students.

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• Turn- in this completed assignment to Professor Salopek.
  
  

END OF ASSIGNMENT. Assignment created by Rich Soares, Nursing Librarian. Feb/03 mod 9/8/03, 1/29/04, 4/05, 1/06, 9/06, 7/07, 9/07, 7/08