nursing research at st. francis college
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Nursing Research
at SFC LibraryLibrarian: Miyo Sandlin
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Subject:16th Century English Literature
Author’s Last Name
Year Published
Collection of articles found
in journals and newspapers
Can include images, video,
podcasts and ebooks.
Journal Articles Database
• Written by researchers and university
professors.
• Provides subject specific information to students
and researchers.
• Lots of text, few ads.
• Each article includes bibliography.
• Original research and book reviews.
• Written by journalists.
• Purpose is to entertain.
• Colorful, full of ads and pictures.
• May include “suggested reading” or a link for a
website.
• Can include humor, fiction, sports, movie reviews
etc.
PeerReview
= other scientists, scholars
= reading, fact checking
SEARCH TIPS
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Over 300k results 34k results
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Virus
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VIRUS- DISEASES
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Hoovers
International Encyclopedia of Communication
Naxos Music Library
Rosetta Stone
Browsetable of contents
subject terms
publication date
author’s other works
Author’s claims
backed by evidence?
supported by sources?
LanguageScientific?
Casual?
Emotional?
Web Research
Web Research
Web Research
• Can’t access subscription sources.
• No subject search.
• Harder to tell when something is peer-
reviewed.
• Ranked by popularity so commercial
results show up first.
• Try scholar.google.com!
• Can search by subject.
• Can easily narrow search to peer-
reviewed sources.
• Citation generator.
• Expensive medical and science journals
available for free to students.
Plagiarism
Using someone’s words or ideas
without giving them credit.
• Quotations“While HIV testing can induce population level/primary prevention health benefits, ultimately it is an individual-focused, secondary prevention initiative” (O’Byrne, 2012, p. 181).
• ParaphrasingO’Byrne finds that while testing for HIV has benefits, “ultimately it is an individual-focused, secondary prevention initiative” (2012, p. 181).
• SummarizingHIV testing, while offering benefits, is focused more on secondary rather than primary prevention (O’Byrne, 2012).
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/1/
In-text Citations
Works Cited
Article from a Journal
Alcorn, T. (2012). Redefining public health in New York City. The Lancet, 379(9831), 2037-2038.
Website
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2015). Get Smart: Know When
Antibiotics Work. Retrieved from
http://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/community/about/should-know.html
Book
Schneider, M.J. (2014). Introduction to public health. Burlington, MA: Jones &
Bartlett Learning.
• Cite your sources both in the text and in the works cited page.
• Cite in a way that makes it easier to for your professor to find your source.
• Only put a page number in an in-text citation if you are using a direct quote.
• Watch your capitalization:
Journal title: Journal of the American Medical Association.
Book/ Article title: The fast-changing Arctic : rethinking Arctic security
for a warmer world.
Citations
APAManual
Cite as you write!owl.english.purdue.edu
LibGuides
libguides.sfc.edu/nursing
