Success @ HML = Success @ ONU

Traci Welch MoritzPublic Services Librarian/Assistant Professor

Heterick Memorial Library

T-moritz@onu.edu

WELCOME to the LIBRARY

Today’s goals

• Introduce you to the staff and resources available to you as Ohio Northern University students

• Get you started on the Writing Seminar research assignment

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Librarians and support staff

http://www-new.onu.edu/academics/heterick_memorial_library/staff

Professor Baril

Professor Donley

Ms. Kobiela

Mr. Cheng Professor Moritz

First stop -- Webpage• www.onu.edu/library

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Research Guides

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Nursing Research Guide

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• Start big doing background reading

• Narrow your topic for a more focused product

• Research narrowed topic using subject specific databases

• Keep track of bibliographic citations to avoid trouble down the road.

• Refworks

Research Strategy

Research Tools

• Catalogs – for locating books, maps, musical scores, govt. documents, etc.

• Databases – usually for locating periodical and newspaper articles, but may cover other materials as well

• Heterick Memorial Library

• Undergraduate Library, accessible to all

• Taggert Law Library

• Library for Law school, accessible to all

Libraries at ONU

CATALOGS• POLAR -- Accessing items

located at HML (physical and electronic) as well as Law Library

• OhioLINK -- Next Step if you can’t find what you want in the HML collection

• ILL -- option of last resort

Off Campus Access

EVAEva Maglott00021559801

Eva Maglott

Please use all digits in your student ID number.

• Materials owned by all Ohio colleges, universities, several public libraries

• Link from POLAR permits you to submit requests

• Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days• No charge • Only 25 requests at a time• May keep up to 84 days

Find a Book -- OhioLINK

• Periodical means the same as Magazine

Usually magazines are more “popular”

• JournalsScholarly or Professional

Peer reviewed

Find an Article

• Often tools for locating journal and newspaper articles

• Most are subject-specific, some multi-disciplinary

• Many give access to full text of articles• Heterick has 200+• Available from Heterick home page

Databases

Find an Article

Click on Databases

Find an Article

Find an Article

Databases BIG THREE +1• CINAHL Plus with Full Text | 

Off Campus Access | Mobile Phone• Health Source : Nursing/Academic Edition

 | Off Campus Access | Mobile Phone • Proquest

Nursing and Allied Health Source | Off Campus Access

• Academic Search Complete | Off Campus Access | Mobile Phone

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Find an Article

Web Management

Be sure to click on the “Off campus access tab” to begin

Problems? Contact our Systems Librarian with:• Name of database• Error messages• K-kobiela@onu.edu • Date/ time• Note you are working off-campus

Off Campus Access

EVAEva Maglott00021559801

Eva Maglott

Please use all 11 digits of your student ID

Nursing Databases

Start with a general database

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Academic Search Complete is an EbscoHost supported database

Sign in for a free EbscoHost account

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• See the document “How to create an EbscoHost account” under the Database/Journals tab at the Research Guide

• Good for all EbscoHost supported databases

Now What?

• Consider your search strategy

• What words or phrases typed into the search boxes will bring back the results list containing articles relevant to your topic?

• Most databases have a subject list for suggestions

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Academic Search Complete

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• See what terminology the database suggests

• Type in suggested terms or your search strategy

• Be sure to click on “scholarly journals”

Results List

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• Use the facetted menu on the left hand side of the screen to narrow your search by

• Publication date• Suggested subject• Geography• Language

Refine by date

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Slide bar over to narrow to publication period specified by the

assignment (“current” is usually last 5 years)

Refine by suggested subject term

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Refine by language of published article

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• More articles are being published in the language of origin

• Unless you can read Turkish, this article will be of little use to you

Refine by geography

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Reviewing the results list

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• Narrowed from 3683• Place cursor on magnifying glass to

read abstract• Click on PDF full text or html or Find it

@ ONU or

Saving what you find

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• Save articles you want to access again by placing in folder

• Click on folder

Open folder and…

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• Click on “Folder”• Send to self via email• Save to jump drive or hard drive

CINAHL

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• Automatically will suggest subject terms unless you

unclick box• Click on CINAHL headings for

a complete listing of all subject headings as CINAHL has it’s own specialized vocabulary

CINAHL subject heading

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CINAHL results list

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• CINAHL is an EbscoHost database so follow direction for

Academic Search Complete to narrow your results list and save to your folder

Proquest Nursing

• Not an EbscoHost supported database but works in a similar fashion

• Facetted menu in different place

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Proquest Nursing

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• Click here for peer reviewed articles

• Click here to look up subject headings

• Does use MedLine’s subject heading list called MESH

• Variety of ways to narrow search not available in EbscoHost products

Results list

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• Facetted menu on right• Suggest subjects appear

at top• Most articles are

available as pdf full text

Results list

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• Click to read abstract on “citation/abstract link” or on “preview”

• Click on “full text pdf” for article as it originally appeared in the journal

• Click in box to right of entry to save

Sign up for a free account

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• Click on box to right to save article

• Click on “save to my research”

• When this box comes up, click on “Create my research account” and follow instructions

What about the Internet?

• See article on “How to effectively evaluate websites” under the “Database/Journals” tab at the Research Guide

Google Scholar

ONU buysFull-textdatabase

OhioLINKPermits

Google tolink to full-text

Google asksto link tocontent

ONU user sees licensed full-textarticles

Run Google ScholarSearch

Note: If working offcampus user seesonly citation to articles not full text

What about the Internet?

Help/Instruction

• Ask at the Front Desk• Phone the Reference Desk – 419-772-

2185 (see library page for available hours)

• Contact by E-mail reference@onu.edu

• t-moritz@onu.edu

QUESTIONS?